Animal Crossing: New Horizons sea creature guide (August 2020)
With the introduction of diving in Animal Crossing: New Horizons comes the opportunity to reinvent your museum. Here are a few of the creatures you can catch.
How to back up (and restore) your Animal Crossing island should the worst happen
There's nothing worse than losing your entire Animal Crossing island to a lost or broken Nintendo Switch. Here's how to enable and restore island backups.
How to get pearls in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Following the most recent summer update in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players can craft special furniture using pearls. Here's how to dive and find them.
How to unlock golden tools in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Unlocking each of them isn't difficult, but it will take a lot of persistence and hours of gameplay. Here's how to get your hands on all these valuable tools.
How to change your appearance in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is all about customization. Even changing your character's physical appearance is easy, and there are plenty of options for looks.
How to get star fragments in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Meteor showers aren't just a beautiful spectacle in the skies of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. They're also the only way to get your hands on star fragments.
How to get iron nuggest in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
One of the most useful resources in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is iron nuggets. Thankfully, you can harvest the valuable item without putting in much work.
8 improvements that would make Animal Crossing: New Horizons even better
Despite Animal Crossing: New Horizons being one of the most critically well-received games of 2020, many features would make it even better. Here are eight.
How to find Kicks in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a treasure trove of characters that are a delight to engage with. Here is how to find Kicks and buy some new clothing items.
How to plant a money tree in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
If you've never played any previous Animal Crossing games, you might be surprised to find out that money does, in fact, grow on trees. Here's how it works.
Animal Crossing Nature Day Guide: All rewards and recipes
Between new shrubs and the return of sloth character Leif, the two weeks of Nature Day will keep players busy. Here's your guide to all the rewards and recipes.
When and where to watch the Nintendo Direct for Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Nintendo announced it's next Direct, which will take an in-depth look at Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Here's when and where to watch it, and what to expect.
Amazon may delay shipping of Animal Crossing: New Horizon amid coronavirus
Amazon informed Animal Crossing: New Horizon pre-order customers that shipping of the game could be delayed in response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
Preview Animal Crossing: New Horizon in Pocket Camp’s crossover event
Players can now get a preview of what Animal Crossing: New Horizons will offer once it's out courtesy of a crossover event in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons wants to take you on a dream vacation
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is releasing exclusively for Switch next March, and Tom Nook has prepared a presentation to show you all the fun activities you can do there. These include crafting your own tools, planting trees, and using Nook Miles to get extra rewards for completing special missions.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons trailer makes the wait for its launch even harder
Nintendo, or perhaps Nook Inc., have released a new trailer for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The trailer shows off the game's beautiful deserted island as well as the Switch box art. The game will come exclusively to Nintendo Switch on March 20 and features online and offline multiplayer.
More Animal Crossing: New Horizons details revealed in Nintendo Direct
Nintendo released a 25-minute presentation about Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which shows off a ton of new and returning features and characters for the game.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons update lowers drop rates for Bunny Day eggs
Animal Crossing: New Horizons update 1.1.4 addresses several fan complaints about the current Bunny Day event that has taken over player's islands.
Monterey Bay Aquarium provides tours using Twitch and Animal Crossing
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic but is still able to give virtual tours via Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Now you can add classic works of art to your Animal Crossing island
Getty released an online tool that lets you turn classic works of art by the likes of Rembrandt and Van Gogh into QR codes you can upload into your game.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons review: The vacation we need
The latest Animal Crossing offering is an escapist player's dream, but should you pick up Animal Crossing: New Horizon at release? Read on to find out.
Animal Crossing is the game we need right now — and the one people are buying
Animal Crossing: New Horizons' launch sales in the U.K. are higher than all previous entries in the series combined. Figures don't include digital downloads.
Nintendo Switch sets sales record, new Animal Crossing outsells past entries
The gaming industry showed little signs of a struggling economy in March as new sales records were set by Nintendo, according to sales data from the NPD Group.
Nintendo Switch update adds button remapping and SD card game transfers
Nintendo Switch players can now remap controller buttons and transfer software data between the system memory and an SD card thanks to firmware update 10.0.
Nintendo Direct Mini reveals Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition date, more
Out of nowhere Nintendo released a Nintendo Direct Mini packed full of surprises and revealed that Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition will release in May.
Our biggest takeaways from the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Nintendo Direct
Animal Crossing fans got details on characters, save data, and how players will be able to customize their island. The game will even brick back familiar faces.
Breath of the Wild gets a sequel, Animal Crossing: New Horizons delayed
Nintendo's Direct livestream for E3 2019 was filled with rapid-fire announcements. A new Zelda game was teased, No More Heroes 3 was announced, Banjo-Kazooie and Dragon Quest 11's hero join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the Panzer Dragoon franchise returns, and more.
Nintendo’s E3 2019 booth lineup does not include Animal Crossing
In a release addressed to fans, Nintendo included a list of games that will be available on the showroom floor at E3 2019. Titles included Pokémon Sword and Shield, Luigi’s Mansion 3, Link’s Awakening, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order. One game not mentioned, however, is Animal Crossing.
Leak allegedly reveals new ‘Animal Crossing,’ ‘Luigi’s Mansion 3’ release dates
A U.K.-based retailer reportedly leaked the release dates for the new Animal Crossing and Luigi's Mansion 3 for the Nintendo Switch. While the alleged launch dates may be legitimate, gamers are advised to wait for an official announcement from Nintendo on when these exclusives will roll out.
This 87-year-old grandma eats, sleeps, and breathes ‘Animal Crossing’
Is there such a thing as too much Animal Crossing? The answer to that is a resounding no, and one 87-year-old grandma knows that. She has logged a ridiculously impressive 3,580 hours in Animal Crossing: New Leaf over the past four years. That's about 2.5 hours per day, or 150 days worth of play.
Commune with nature in ‘Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp’ for mobile
'Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp' is officially out for both iOS and Android. This time around, players become one with nature.
Nintendo’s free mobile game ‘Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp’ arrives a day early
It's been a while coming, but Nintendo's Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp officially launched for smartphones one day early, on November 21.
Animal Crossing Pocket Camp brings Nintendo’s life sim to mobile devices
As the next Nintendo franchise to receive the mobile treatment, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp is the closest yet to the mainline entries.
We'll finally learn about the Animal Crossing mobile game during Nintendo Direct
After multiple delays, Nintendo is finally ready to show off Animal Crossing mobile during its next Nintendo Direct.
Animal Crossing mobile game delayed again, will be released later this year
The mobile Animal Crossing game that was expected to launch this March has been delayed into the next fiscal year, which begins April 1.
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, Starwhal arrive for Nintendo platforms via eShop
A new entry in Nintendo's Animal Crossing series heads up this week's eShop update, accompanying new releases like Extreme Exorcism and Beatbuddy.
Nintendo announces two new Animal Crossing games
Nintendo announced two new Animal Crossing games, one for the Wii U and the other for the 3DS, at its 2015 digital E3 briefing this year.
Vote for the next Super Smash Bros. fighter and more highlights from Nintendo’s livestream
Despite the date, the April 1st Nintendo Direct was no joke, with exciting details about a wide range of Nintendo's upcoming games and DLC.