When I was growing up, going to Build-A-Bear was a big deal. There was one in the mall we would frequent when I was a kid, and I always dragged my mom out of our way to walk by when we were there. I even preordered the Toothless plush from ...

Stardew Valley is such an unstoppable force that you probably know at least one person who has played it. And a good deal of those people are incredibly into the game: so much so, that they put their passion into action. Like many gift...

April Fools' Day. My Favourite. When your job is writing news, and the annual day of w-w-w-wackiness rolls around, it's frankly a pain in the ass. This is especially true of recent years, when companies have taken to revealing very real pro...

Whether it's a game I've played for five minutes or five-hundred hours, I always love hearing about no-brainer tips that are easily overlooked – the kind that are small but impactful over time, and make you do a double-take for failin...

When's the last time you genuinely struggled to get a rare drop in a game and put in hour after hour only for your unlucky streak to persist well beyond reason? What stopped you from calling it quits? I'm trying to hatch an ostrich egg in S...

After a few weeks of playing Stardew Valley 1.5 on Nintendo Switch, I'm at the point – 60-some hours into the game, and a bit into Year 3 – where I'm prioritizing Ginger Island now that I'm cool with most of the villagers and th...

Stardew Valley is a timeless game. It's something I'll be playing for decades to come, so I'm glad it's on as many platforms as possible: way easier to preserve it! Pictured above is one of my first farms, which I started years ago and...

The hard-to-put-down farming sim Stardew Valley has been reinterpreted as a board game – officially, I mean! The project is a collaboration between game creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone and designer Cole Medeiros, and after two and ...

After its PC debut in December, Stardew Valley has rolled out the substantial 1.5 content update today on consoles. If you're a Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, or Xbox One player, today's the day. It's huge. Update 1.5 includes a ton of ne...

When it comes to action games, I see things like Neo in The Matrix. But as soon as you tell me to start crafting an elaborate design in a builder: I freeze. People like NetWarrior FM see it as a challenge. They rise to the occasion. That's ...

I recently picked up a half-finished Stardew Valley save file to mess around with the 1.5 update, and it didn't take long for me to start flipping through the wiki to refresh myself. While the wiki is always going to have its place (barring...

[Update: The console versions of Stardew Valley got update 1.5 on February 11.] In case you missed it, Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone, developer of Stardew Valley, just put out a gigantic update for the game on PC. The operative phrase here: PC...

Stardew Valley added a whole new island to explore with update 1.5, and it's surprisingly fleshed-out. There's a lot to it! If you're looking for a straight-to-the-point starter guide, here goes nothing. I'll cover what you need to unlock W...

We only just learned about beach farms and a cool shakeup for Community Center bundles in Stardew Valley, and now there's even better news: update 1.5 is out today on Steam. Eric Barone finished it! As usual, PC players are up first, and ot...

With hundreds of hours logged in Stardew Valley, I find myself saying often: "yeah, I can start another farm." Such is the power of the dew. It helps that it's run by one of the most affable and approachable developers in the gaming in...

It's almost time to go back to the farm to chiiillllllll. It won't be a whole lot longer until we can reap what Eric Barone has sown.  After spending most of 2020 working on Stardew Valley's massive 1.5 update, Barone says it's ne...

Can ConcernedApe do no wrong? After Stardew Valley got online multiplayer, I wrote off split-screen co-op as something that probably wouldn't happen – but where there's a will, there's a way. The developer has continued to improve the...

Stardew Valley is such a watershed game, that absolutely any small addition can get fans to salivate. Banana trees? The internet goes wild. Moving your bed? I need to carve out time in my schedule when 1.5 hits just for this. It's crazy how...

You can find a cover of a Zelda song on pretty much any instrument, or anything that will allow it. Here, let's try a little experiment. I randomly Googled "Mario Maker Lost Woods." Yep, there's an app for that. "Epona's Song on a flut...

Stardew Valley's lifetime sales were not a sprint: it's a marathon. That's the kind of raw power that developer Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone tapped into when they created this timeless masterpiece, as the evergreen sales of this monster of a ...

I remember when Stardew Valley came out. I was preoccupied with a lot of work at the time, but vowed to get to it as quickly as I could: bearing a lot of fond memories for the Harvest Moon series. The minute I booted it up, I knew that I wo...

Stardew Valley is packed enough on its own: so much so that I haven't really sought out the comfort of mods. But the modding scene has been incredibly robust ever since the game hit the market, to the point where just about anyone can whip ...

For all the time I've spent in Stardew Valley, I've never thought about moving my bed – which is good, because in the current version of the game, it won't budge. That's changing in update 1.5, though! People are stoked about the bed...

You might love Stardew Valley enough to own multiple copies of the game, but what about a physical copy? It's a frequent request, and the time has come. Creator Eric Barone partnered with Fangamer for a Collector's Edition release of Starde...

I feel like a restless kid on an all-day road trip who only left home twenty minutes ago. "Is it ready yet? Is it ready yet?" No, Stardew Valley hasn't gotten its 1.5 update yet – "it's still in a 'nose to the grindstone phase'" &ndas...