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Video Here's How Animal Crossing: New Horizons Looks Running At 4K, 60FPS
Now this is island living
Ever wondered what Animal Crossing: New Horizons might look like at a higher resolution and frame rate? Well, wonder no more, as YouTuber SnazzyAI has returned with a brand new video - this time showcasing what Nintendo's island paradise simulator would like in 4K and running at a silky smooth 60fps. Provided you have a 4K...
News Animal Crossing Helps UK Video Game Revenue Pass £4 Billion For The First Time Ever
FIFA 21 was top, however
We all know that video gaming is big business, but how big? Well, the UK video game market passed the £4 billion marker in 2020 – the first time it has ever happened (thanks, MCV). Video gaming generated a massive £4.2 billion in revenue in the region last year, according to preliminary data compiled by the Ente
News X Rocker Launches Animal Crossing Gaming Chair
Available now in the UK
If you've been on the search for a new gaming chair for ultimate game time comfiness, this new Animal Crossing-themed option from X Rocker might just be the perfect solution. The popular gaming chair brand has launched what it calls the 'Animal Crossing - Village Edition', a compact chair said to be "the perfect partner for...
Random Lovers Who Met Through Animal Crossing Get Engaged In Real Life
I can hear the Bells
It started the same as any romance: inside a magical fantasy world constructed by a villainous Tanooki landlord. But it ended with two people crossing borders and travelling thousands of miles to be with each other. Steven Brown had a unique problem: he had too many Bells in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and wanted to get rid...
News An Adorable Animal Crossing Figure Set Launches This Year, And We Need Them All
One bundle, seven characters
Just when you thought the series couldn't get any cuter, an adorable set of mini-figures based on Animal Crossing: New Horizons pops up to melt our poor little hearts. The set comes from Bandai Skokugan and will be launching in June this year. You'll find Tom Nook, Isabelle, Flick, Lolly, Dom, Flurry, and Marshal all...
News Animal Crossing Nominated For New York Game Awards' GOTY, Will Be Co-Hosted By Reggie Fils-Aimé
Here are all the nominees
Streaming details and all nominees have today been announced for this year's annual New York Game Awards. Presented by the New York Videogame Critics Circle, the event is back for its tenth year later this month in a virtual-only setting. A group of "incomparable" presenters and performers have been teased for the show,...
Random Animal Crossing Meets Hades With These "Chthonic Villagers"
Who needs Raymond, tbh
It's the crossover no one asked for, but we all secretly wanted: Animal Crossing: New Horizons x Hades! Thanks to Twitter user @greatsenpai, AKA Krizzia, we can enjoy the idea of our most favourite Greek gods dwelling in our AC towns. Imagine giving Lion-Achilles a wrapped-up gift of Nectar! Picture a beachside walk with...
News Got Animal Crossing For Christmas? You Probably Missed Out On The Game's Best Festive Moments
A bit of an oversight, or just hard luck?
Animal Crossing: New Horizons offers hours of fun all year round, but as veteran players will know, things get even more exciting when in-game events take over your precious island. As you might expect, the festive season is a particularly joyous time – this weekend saw plenty of social media users...
UK Charts Animal Crossing Returns To Winning Ways With A New Year's Number One
And Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe makes a comeback
UK physical chart data is now in for the week ending 2nd January, revealing that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has returned to the number one spot. Nintendo's smash hit managed to climb past last week's number one, FIFA 21, to get there, kicking off 2021 with yet more success. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe also...
Random Doomguy And Animal Crossing's Isabelle See In The New Year Together On Twitter
"happy new horizons"
Perhaps the most unlikely duo in 2020 was Doomguy and Isabelle. It all started when DOOM Eternal got delayed until 20th March, knocking the release date back to the same day as Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The internet thought it was a match made in
Reminder It's New Year's Eve In Animal Crossing: New Horizons Today
Head to the plaza for the grand countdown
Today is officially the last day of 2020, and to go out with a bang, your island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is hosting a special grand countdown event in the plaza to welcome in the new year. All the animals on your island will be there! Leading up to the big event, players will be able to purchase...
News Blathers Finally Gets Some Recognition In 2020's Best Video Game Museums
Hoo hoo! Could it really be...?
It's the GOTY list we've all been waiting for: the best video game museums of 2020! Created by YouTube channel, The MinnMax Show, the shortlist includes The Last of Us Part II, the Final Fantasy VII Remake, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and our personal favourite, the Animal Crossing: New Horizons museum, curated and...
Feature How Animal Crossing: New Horizons Brought Me Closer To My Dad During Lockdown
Nintendo's life sim brings people together in more ways than one
When my dad first brought home a Nintendo Switch for the family to share at the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, I couldn’t wait to finally start playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons like all of my friends had been for weeks. I mainly looked forward to collecting all of the custom...
Soapbox I've Been Playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons Wrong All This Time, But No More
Take a walk on the (re)wild side
Do whatever you like, however you like – that’s the Animal Crossing: New Horizons mantra. There’s no big bad boss to defeat, and no final destination to struggle towards. Instead, New Horizons offers players complete freedom to create and develop their island paradise however they like. Or so it might seem...
Poll What Was Your Favourite Animal Crossing: New Horizons Event Of 2020?
Event Horizons
Contrary to previous games in the series, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was very much 'incomplete' when it launched back in March. In a move that upset time travellers the world over, Nintendo made the decision to roll out annual events in the game via updates throughout the year. While this had the benefit of keeping buzz about the...
News Celebrate New Year In Animal Crossing With Some Yummy Seasonal Food Items
"Get those orders in ASAP!"
If you've been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons over the past week, you'll already know how exciting this time of year can be in the game with Toy Day celebrations and even thick snow falling in the northern hemisphere for the first time. As the animals
Feature The Dark Secrets Of Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Stalk Market
What kind of turnip trader are you?
If you’re anything like millions of other global-pandemic-lockdown Switch gamers, you’re on a vicarious head-in-sand holiday in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Strolling the beach, shopping windows, listening to chirping insects and lapping waves… you’ve seen this “Stalk Market” thing – interesting,...
Feature 6 Things My Three-Year-Old Taught Me About Video Games, Via Animal Crossing
Moo.
When a cutie-bunny-hedgehog-kitty game comes out alongside Doom Eternal and Doom 64, it’s a test of self-confidence for a grown man to take it to the shop counter. Failing that test despicably, I invented the weak and unnecessary excuse that I could play Animal Crossing: New Horizons with my little boy. Working at home during the UK's...
Feature The Minds Behind Animal Crossing: New Horizons
And all the other Animal Crossings
We recently we took a brief look at the history of Animal Crossing, from Japan's Animal Forest for Nintendo 64 and its GameCube conversion up to and including the latest entry on Switch, Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Obviously there are many unsung heroes when it comes to the development of any video game, with...
Reminder Today Is Toy Day In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
The most wonderful time of the year
In case it had slipped your mind, here's a friendly reminder that today is the wonderful, magical time of year known as Toy Day in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. If you're not the sort who jumps into the game every single day regardless, you might want to make an exception today to see all of the festive fun...
News Your Animal Crossing Island Could Be In A Museum As Part Of A COVID-19 Exhibit
Blathers-ception
The National Videogame Museum, located in Sheffield, England, is a magical wonderland of retro and vintage gaming stuff saved from the basements of former children across the world. Unlike most museums, however, it lets you touch the stuff, as they explain in their mission statement: Videogames are meant to be played, and that is...
News Switch Owners "Most Likely" To Own A Rival Console, 2020 Study Shows
Console also scores highly in 'bestselling' and 'worst game' categories
Our friends over at GamesIndustry.biz love crunching the numbers and turning them into lovely charts, and we love reading them. Their "Year In Numbers" for 2020 shows a pandemic-fuelled frenzy of video game spending, with a 21% increase in the value of the console market,...
News Nintendo's Doug Bowser Discusses The Future Of Animal Crossing: New Horizons
"I see two potential avenues here"
Without doubt one of the biggest gaming success stories of 2020, especially in Nintendo's case, has been the unrelenting world domination of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Right from its hugely successful launch up until this very day, the game has been breaking sales record
News Nintendo Toys Coming To Burger King Kids Meals In Germany, Austria, And Australia
Mario Kartoffel
Put your pre-Christmas diet on hold, folks: Burger King (and its Australian counterpart, Hungry Jack's) has a new bunch of Nintendo toys offered as part of their King Jr. meals. It begs the question: why don't adult meals come with toys, too? It's not entirely clear what the toys do, exactly, but the range features Link's Awakening,...
UK Charts Animal Crossing: New Horizons Sales Keep Rising, But Cyberpunk 2077 Goes Top
New Horizons likely to be UK's second best-seller of 2020
UK physical chart data is now in for the week ending 12th December, revealing that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is once again Nintendo's highest-placed title. As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, New Horizons' sales have been consistently rising week-on-week for more than a month at this point...
Let the good times roll
Beginning mid-December, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players in the Northern Hemisphere are able to craft Snowfolk (namely, Snowboys) from snowballs found around their islands and acquire some icy items in return for their hard work. This is slightly different from previous games, in which players could craft a complete set...
News Animal Crossing: New Horizons Fans Are Sharing Shots Of Their Islands Covered In Snow
Snow falls in the northern hemisphere
Today marks yet another exciting occasion in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, as a thick layer of snow is starting to cover people's islands for the first time – if you're in the northern hemisphere, at least. Snow has been lightly trickling down on players' islands for a short while now, but today that snow...
News Animal Crossing Among The Most Google-Searched Games Of 2020 (US)
Nintendo's most popular hit of the year
Google has revealed a list of the top ten most-searched games throughout 2020 in the United States, and everyone's favourite cast of cuddly villagers have made it into the top ten. 'Animal Crossing', which no doubt represents Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the most part, was the sixth most-searched-for...
Video Feel-Good Animal Crossing: New Horizons Clip Wishes Fans A Happy Festive Season
And looks back at 2020
In an alternate universe – namely, the Animal Crossing universe – 2020 has been a pretty spectacular, heartwarming year full of new discoveries, friendships, and fun. Plenty of us have jumped into the game to escape reality this year, and this latest trailer from Nintendo reminds us of exactly that. It's only a short...
News Next Week, Animal Crossing Players Can Donate Their Spoiled Turnips To A Good Cause
Update: Hellmann's returns for more
Update: Back in August, Hellmann's made great use of Animal Crossing: New Horizons by inviting players to 'donate' their spoiled turnips. For each turnip donated to the Hellmann's island, real-life meals were donated to Canadian food rescue charity, Second Harvest. You can read all about it in our original article...
Video Animal Crossing: New Horizons Trailer Shows Us What's New In December
Limited-time items, new critters and more
Nintendo's latest trailer for Animal Crossing: New Horizons has arrived, giving us a good look at all the things we can see and do during the month of December. As keen players will no doubt be aware, a winter update recently added plenty of new content to the game including
UK Charts Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Still Leading The Way For Nintendo
A familiar top ten
UK physical chart data is now in for the week ending 5th December, revealing that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is still right up there as Nintendo's hottest title almost nine months since its launch. The game managed to keep hold of its third-place position from last week, edging ahead of Assassin's Creed Valhalla which is now...
Feature 10 Years Later, We Return To Our Abandoned Animal Crossing: Wild World Village
Never go back?
For much of this year, Nintendo's latest entry in the Animal Crossing series has been a safe space for many Switch owners who have started a new life on Tom Nook's deserted island. Today marks 15 years exactly since the brilliant DS entry first arrived in North America, so it's the perfect time to revisit this feature — originally...
News The Gorgeous Animal Crossing Switch Is Back In Stock At Nintendo's UK Store
Quick! Hot-tail it before they're gone!
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons-themed Switch (as pictured above in all its glory) has been a particularly hot product since it went on sale alongside the game back in March this year. It's been tough to get your hands on them, through, with restocks popping up sporadically in different territories...
News Can't Resist An Ugly Christmas Sweater? Lidl's Got You Covered In Animal Crossing
Jumper on the bandwagon
Discount supermarket chain Lidl is getting generous this year and distributing a traditional Christmas jumper to Nintendo Switch owners for absolutely nothing. Free stuff! The catch? Well, besides the fact it's horrifically garish (we wouldn't have it any other way), it's also digital-only. Yes, in case you somehow missed...
News Christmas Toy Items Have Appeared In Animal Crossing: New Horizons For A Limited Time
Available from now until 25th Dec
Today sees the beginning of the Toy Day event in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, meaning you can now get your hands on a set of Christmas toys for a limited time only. Following on from last week's Turkey Day Thanksgiving event, Toy Day celebrations are running from 1st - 25th December, with the 24th being the big...
News Animal Crossing: New Horizons' NookLink App Updated, New Catalog Feature Now Available
And it looks pretty useful
NookLink, the Animal Crossing: New Horizons service that's available inside the Nintendo Switch Online smartphone app, has received a brand new update which adds a handy new feature. When you first open your app after the update, you'll spot a brand new icon on the NookLink home screen called 'Catalog'. Heading here –...
UK Charts Hyrule Warriors Drops 14 Places While Animal Crossing Returns To Winning Ways
FIFA's back at number one
UK physical chart data is now in for the week ending 28th November, revealing that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity has fallen 14 places in its second week on sale. After its sixth place debut last week, the Zelda spin-off finds itself down in 20th this week, just below the likes of 51 Worldwide Games and last year's Just...
News Nintendo's Latest UK Ad For Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Packed Full Of The Feels
Take your friends along for the ride
Nintendo's supported the phenomenally successful Animal Crossing: New Horizons with some excellent regional commercials, and it's following up this format with an ad that's exclusively aimed at the UK market. The commercial – which is due to run on UK television networks from today – reinforces how the game...
Another record smashed
Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues to take the world by storm, becoming the fastest ever game to reach six million physical sales in Japan's history. You may have spotted New Horizons' latest lifetime total in our Japanese chart round-up yesterday; the game sold another 37,290 physical copies in the region last week,...
The Last of Us Part II wins big
This year's Golden Joystick Awards winners have now been announced, and we have the full list of winners for you below. Animal Crossing: New Horizons earned 'Nintendo Game of the Year', which we must say is absolutely deserved considering the impact it had worldwide earlier in the year. Nintendo hasn't received all...
News New Animal Crossing-Themed Nintendo Switch Lite Bundles Appear For Black Friday
Available at the Nintendo UK Store
New Nintendo Switch Lite bundles that include a copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons have arrived at the Nintendo UK Store just in time for Black Friday. You can pick up either a Turquoise or Coral Pink Switch Lite console as part of the new promotion, with Animal Crossing: New Horizons artwork featured on the...
News Store Your Switch Games In Style With This Animal Crossing-Themed 512GB SD Card
Joining the Zelda and Mario cards
If you're wanting to store your beloved digital Switch games in style, you'll struggle to find a micro SD card any cooler than this one. Yes, an Animal Crossing-themed micro SD has been added to Nintendo's officially-licensed range of SanDisk cards. It's the biggest of the lot, boasting 512GB of storage compared to...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: King Tut Mask DIY Recipe And Guide To Tripping
We like King Tuts and we cannot lie
With the second summer update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, that good old tripping mechanic from games past was added once again. In addition, a mysterious (and ominous) accessory was also reintroduced for crafting... Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Tripping and King Tut Mask Guide: Mechanics such as...
Guide Why You Can't Time Travel To Toy Day In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Patience is a virtue
With the recent winter update v1.6.0 to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players were elated to have new in-game holidays and events to look forward to... And then, like parents of children who have snuck into the Christmas presents one too many times, Nintendo locked away the holiday events
Save on the Furniture & Fashion Plan
It's not just Animal Crossing: New Horizons that's being treated to a brand new update this week, as new features have also arrived in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. Two new AR features have made their way into the game, bringing its cast of cute, cuddly characters to life in new ways. There's an AR Camera mode...
News You Can Now Visit Nintendo's Official Island In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Here's the code...
As part of the latest update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Nintendo has also shared a new Dream Address - allowing players to visit the official Nintendo island in the game. To visit this island, all you'll have to do is go to sleep on any bed in your home and then enter the following address when talking to Luna. Here's the...
News New Restrictions Placed On Time Travel In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
You'll just have to wait for Toy Day
Time travel in Nintendo's lifestyle simulation series Animal Crossing has always been a bit of a controversial play style. While some players are eager to see what the future may bring, others believe it's the equivalent of cheating, as it allows you to unlock special items, earn Bells fast and participate in...
News Animal Crossing: New Horizons Usage Guidelines For Businesses And Organisations Detailed
Take note
As Xbox's Phil Spencer put it, Animal Crossing has become a phenomenon. It's resulted in a lot of companies using the game as a market tool to increase the popularity of their own products. Not long ago, for example, IKEA released an entire catalogue featuring fully-furnished
Download it now
Following on from its announcement earlier this week, Nintendo has now officially released the winter update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It adds Toy Day, Turkey Day and perhaps most importantly a new feature allowing users to
