Minecraft in his performances. A simulation of the game was featured in Lady Gaga's "G.U.Y." music video. The game is also referenced heavily in "Informative Murder Porn", the second episode of the seventeenth season of the animated television series "South Park". "Luca$", the seventeenth episode of the 25th season of the animated sitcom "The Simpsons" was inspired by "Minecraft"; Persson responded by tweeting "I'm not sure how I feel about it." After the release of "Minecraft", some video games were released with various similarities with "Minecraft", and some were called "clones" of the game. Examples include "Ace of Spades", "CastleMiner", "CraftWorld",
Minecraft mods time. Mojang stepped in to save the project. Another controversy came about in March 2017, when Slovakian cybercompany ESET revealed that 87 examples of trojan horses were distributed through the Google Play Store under the guise of "Minecraft" mods. Their purpose was to either aggressively display ads or con players into downloading other apps. Combined, these fake mods gathered over one million downloads in the first three months of 2017. The total number of Minecraft mods is officially very hard to calculate because of the sheer number of them, both old and new ones, but one of the repository websites,