Finding great music that you can use for Twitch streams, YouTube videos, and other creative online projects can be a pain – especially for those of us who don’t have any ability, training, or talent to make our own. There are free to use options out there, but many video game fans who have fallen … Read more
One of the first lessons you learn when playing video games is to keep your health from reaching 0. In games like Super Mario Bros., this means not letting Mario take a hit while he’s small. In RPGs, you can usually see every character’s exact HP total. When a character gets low, you heal them … Read more
There’s typically no shortage of things to do when running a new character through a Terraria world. Houses need to be built for NPCs, ore has to be mined to craft equipment so you can start putting bosses in their place, and the world has to be explored in order to prepare for events in … Read more
While it’s easy to get carried away trying to feed the entire world from your single mega farm, a major part of Stardew Valley is raising animals. Unlike your pets, which you don’t need to feed, animals will need to be fed to keep them happy (though animals in Stardew Valley do not die from … Read more
Stardew Valley is one of those games that just keeps on giving, and its community is one that keeps on giving back. Not only has Stardew Valley sold over 20 million copies but many of its tech-savvy fans have created literally hundreds of mods that can be added to the game to add new characters, … Read more
Clay farming isn’t a glitch per se, but it comes from speed runners and especially min-maxers in Stardew Valley who have figured out how the game “randomly” determines where clay appears when hoeing ground and use that pattern to their advantage to farm a huge amount of clay in Stardew, often from the beach. Despite … Read more
Subscription services are a big part of the online ecosystem these days, but back in the early days of Xbox Live, there just weren’t that many successful models like it around. Sure, most of us shelled out that $49.99 each year so we could play our favorite multiplayer games online (okay, just Halo 2), but … Read more
The choice of excavator vs gemologist is an interesting one, and the first time someone asked me about it I was confused because I didn’t remember ever seeing those options when I maxed out my mining skill in Stardew Valley. That’s because the two player bonus options when you max out a skill in Stardew … Read more
