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The creator of Stardew Valley – Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone – has revealed he’s never made any money directly from in-game crossovers. Instead, Barone agreed to implement these updates because he’s a fan of the games, or thought players would like them.

Barone shared a statement on X (formerly Twitter) soon after the announcement of a crossover event with Infinity Nikki, in which a Junimo can be seen landing in Infinity Nikki. This makes sense, Junimo’s being adorable little spirits that fit quite well within the cute aesthetic of Infinity Nikki, but the collaboration was met with surprise and criticism from some Stardew players.

Stardew Valley crossovers are quite rare! Back in 2022 there was a Terraria crossover, and relatively recently Stardew Valley made an appearance in Balatro. But aside from that, the farming simulator has been happy staying in its own lane.

Check out the crossover trailer for Infinity Nikki x Stardew Valley here!Watch on YouTube

In response to Concerned Ape’s post on the matter, the official Infinity Nikki account shared the team’s view of working on this collaboration. It reads: “We really appreciate you sharing your feelings on this. Any unintended stress was the last thing we wanted. It was our way of saying thanks – a free love letter to Stardew Valley from our team and for the community. Working on it felt like we were all tending a little farm together. The care and detail you pour into your world is exactly why we want to make cosy games too. We’re still learning from you every day.”

Should Barone be making some money off these crossovers? Probably, yeah. Though it is his choice ultimately whether he wants to financially benefit off such endeavors. It’s not as though Stardew Valley has been hurting for sales after all. As of December 2024 it has sold over 41m copies. I should hope Barone isn’t too concerned about the money.

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A new Assassin’s Creed Shadows update is here, version 1.0.5, with this one mostly having a focus on parkour improvements. There are, however, a couple of collaborations that have arrived in the game too, one with Dead by Daylight, and another with Balatro. We’ll get to those in a second, for now let’s take a look at those parkour tweaks.

For starters, you can jump now! Well, you can do a vertical jump to be specific, letting both Naoe and Yusuke hop in an upwards direction to grab ledges or overhangs within reach. There’s also now a sprint toggle lock option, meaning as long as you’re moving, you won’t stop sprinting if you use the parkour up or down options.

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Some enhanced back and side ejects have been added in too, specifically the distance and height of them, Ubisoft noting that foot landings will be favoured over hand landings. Naoe specifically will have some new animations when she does a height-gaining side eject.

You’ll find a good few new photo mode features alongside all of this, with things like the ability to change the time of day, playing music while you’re tweaking your shots, the ability to save custom filters, and for PC specifically, a fullscreen option.

Now, about those collabs. The first is a Dead by Daylight event, which Ubisoft describes as follows: “As villagers begin to disappear, Naoe becomes suspicious of the strange presence attacking the local people of Harima. To succeed, you will need to master unique mechanics and confront a formidable otherworldly threat…” You can start this new quest from your hideout once you’ve unlocked Yasuke, and once you’ve beaten it you’ll get a trinket and banner.

Then there’s the Balatro collab. That damn card game really has it’s hooks in all of us, ‘ey? This one is just a new trinket for Naoe and amulet for Yasuke called Winning Hand. These both offer a legendary perk that “gives you a chance to trigger a random affliction effect on combo enders.” How do you get these new items? “You will need to work together to figure out how to get it!” says Ubisoft.

There’s a bunch of other general fixes with this update to the open world game too, but you can read about all of those over on the patch notes.

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Creator of Stardew Valley doesn’t charge for collabs with other games, does it to please players

Assassin’s Creed Shadow’s latest update adds in collabs with Dead by Daylight and Balatro, of all things