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Friday3rd Dec 2021
Deals New Nintendo Switch + Ring Fit Adventure Bundles Hit My Nintendo Store UK
Save £19.99 with this console bundle
If you're in the market for a new Switch this festive season, My Nintendo Store UK has a new set of console bundles that include Ring Fit Adventure — perfect for keeping the holiday weight at bay, or at least slowing its advance as the mince pies and cheese courses start creeping into your diet. The new...
Tuesday30th Nov 2021
PSA Did You Know You Can Lift Weights In Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
Get swole
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons update, which came out on the 5th of November, added a ton of new stuff to the game. We've already covered a lot of it, from gyroids to cooking, but one of the cool new features is the ability to engage in some of the activities your villagers do, like dusting, reading, and carrying drinks. Most of these...
Friday26th Nov 2021
Random There's A Really Neat Dino Detail In The Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise DLC
Dem bones, dem bones, dem tall bones
The new handheld camera has been revealing a lot of tiny little details about Animal Crossing: New Horizons, like the new museum posters, and how awesome the aquarium exhibits look in first-person. But here's something extremely cool that really shows how much attention to detail the developers put in:
Random Animal Crossing Fan Shares LEGO Character Designs That You Can Build At Home
Parts and cost all detailed
The hunger for Animal Crossing-themed LEGO remains as high as ever, and even though the company did sadly reject an Animal Crossing set proposal last month, fans are still hard at work coming up with great designs. Take these, for example, shared online by a Rebrickable user named iprice. With around 40 designs under...
News Adorable Animal Crossing Dodo Airlines Reusable Bag Appears On My Nintendo Europe
Update: It's been restocked!
Update (Fri 26th Nov, 2021 14:45 BST): If you missed out last time, you might just be able to snag one of the lovely Animal Crossing Dodo Airlines bags that appeared on My Nintendo in Europe last year. Nintendo has announced another restock... Original Article (Wed 5th Aug, 2020 12:15 BST): We often find ourselves...
News Forget Black Friday, Animal Crossing: New Horizons' 'Nook Friday' Sale Has Begun
Don't miss out
If all the real-world Black Friday sales have left you staring at your bank balance in dismay, never fear! Another important sale is taking place today that doesn't use any of your real money. We're talking, of course, about the Nook Friday sale currently taking place inside Animal Crossing: New Horizons. As we
Thursday25th Nov 2021
Reminder It's Turkey Day In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Don't miss out!
If you've been getting back into island life since Animal Crossing: New Horizons' huge Version 2.0 update, or even if you've been playing religiously since launch, you'll want to make sure you load up the game today and join in the fun. Why? Because it's Turkey Day! Yes, coinciding with America's Thanksgiving holiday each year,...
Wednesday24th Nov 2021
News Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0.3 Update Fixes Duplication Glitch And More - Full Patch Notes
More DLC fixes arrive
Ever since Animal Crossing: New Horizons' major 2.0 update landed earlier this month, patches have been coming in thick and fast to fix a variety of small issues affecting gameplay. Today, the latest update has arrived, taking the game to Version 2.0.3. Yes, following on from Version 2.0.1 and 2.0.2, this latest patch...
Tuesday23rd Nov 2021
News Nintendo's Updated Its Very Own Animal Crossing Island, And You're Invited To Visit
Here's the code you need...
A sneak peek at Ninten Island, Nintendo's very own Animal Crossing island. Did you know that Nintendo has its own official island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons? Did you also know that you can have a bit of a nosy and see what they've done with the place? Well, now you do. Yes, following on from the huge 2.0 update,...
Friday19th Nov 2021
Download it now!
Last Friday, Nintendo release Version 2.0.1 of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and now this week it's released Version 2.0.2. This update includes fixes related to both the main game and the new DLC released, Happy Home Paradise. Here are the full patch notes, courtesy of Nintendo's official support page: Ver. 2.0.2 (Released...
Monday15th Nov 2021
Random There's A New Wasp Escape Trick In Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0
Waspn't
Wasps! They're a necessary evil in Animal Crossing games, because anyone who's been playing for a while knows that there's furniture in the trees, so they must shake them. However, there are also wasps, and they don't take kindly to being shook. Not too long ago, it was discovered that
Random There's A Lot Of Creepy New Stuff In The Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update
Spooky scary skeletons, etc.
Spoilers for some of the new Animal Crossing items! Animal Crossing: New Horizons just got a massive update with over 9,000 new items. Now, 9,000 new items is a lot of furniture for the internet to slowly uncover, and yet, we've already noticed a theme:
Watch Animal Crossing: New Horizons & Chill
Nintendo Life gets into ASMR (again)
Ahhh, Animal Crossing: New Horizons. What a lovely, relaxing game that's sometimes about spending hours searching for one specific villager on Mystery Islands instead of doing something sensible like cooking lunch. In the spirit of things, following the new 2.0 update, we've put together this wonderfully...
UK Charts Shin Megami Tensei V Earns Top Ten Debut, But Animal Crossing Leads The Way For Switch
New Horizons jumps up to third
UK physical chart data is now in for the week ending 13th November, revealing that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is Switch's best-seller of the week. Continuing to shine as one of Nintendo Switch's evergreen hits, and no doubt helped by the recent launch of the Happy Home Paradise DLC and major 2
Friday12th Nov 2021
Seasons come and go
When the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct told us all about the new content coming in update 2.0, a lot of us wondered how to prepare our islands for all the new stuff. After all, for many of us, we hadn't visited the game in a long time. Wouldn't it just be easier to start fresh? Well, yes and no. It's easier because you're...
Download it now!
A week after Nintendo rolled out its final major update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons - including the Happy Home Paradise DLC, it's now released version 2.0.1. This particular update focuses on fixes. There are a lot of fixes for the main game as well as the new DLC. Here are the full patch notes, courtesy of Nintendo's...
Thursday11th Nov 2021
But where's Doomguy?
Animist, also known as Yuto, is an animator who makes incredible stop motion shorts. We've covered their Kirby stop-motion before, but their newest creation — somewhat appropriately — is Isabelle from Animal Crossing: New Horizons making coffee. Even though Brewster can probably handle it just fine, Izzy. The stop-motion...
Random Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Custom Polish Effects Are A Game-Changer
Polishing? Fun? No, seriously!
Polishing furniture sounds like something our parents would make us do as a punishment, but it's one of the new features in Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Happy Home Paradise expansion, and it's actually, maybe, secretly one of the best things in the update. Because, get this, you can use custom designs to make your...
Wednesday10th Nov 2021
PSA Animal Crossing's Happy Home Paradise DLC Fixes New Horizons' Most-Hated Feature
That's more like it!
If you've opted to pick up Animal Crossing: New Horizons' new DLC, or if you've got it through Nintendo's Switch Online Expansion Pack, you'll already have seen some of the lovely new content Happy Home Paradise has to offer. There are new characters to meet, new items to get, and plenty more besides, but there's one new
Tuesday9th Nov 2021
News Nintendo Teams Up With Christina Aguilera For Latest Switch Commercial
It's beautiful, no matter what they say...
It seems you can't swing a Joy-Con around (with the wrist-strap carefully applied, of course) today without hitting upon a celeb promo for the Switch. The latest to appear is from Nintendo of America, recruiting performer Christina Aguilera and her family for another 'My Way' commercial promoting the...
Monday8th Nov 2021
News The Gorgeous Animal Crossing Switch Is Being Restocked, In Australia At Least
With other regions to follow?
Missed out on the glorious Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch? Well, it looks like you might be in luck. Nintendo Australia has announced that a new shipment of the special console is coming later this month, arriving at "selected retailers" on 26th November. Stock has only been confirmed for Australia/New Zealand so far,...
Saturday6th Nov 2021
Random Animal Crossing Players Spot Discord In The Latest Update
"We've officially made it"
Nintendo has released the final major free content update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons and there's a lot to unpack. One particular item that's been added is a gaming computer, and it's got quite a lot of people talking. It's not so much the item, but what's on the screens that have become the talking point. If you...
Friday5th Nov 2021
Gallery Rococo Furniture Is Back In Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Update 2.0
We're cuckoo for rococo
Beware: Mild spoilers within for Happy Home Paradise and some of the new furniture. Longtime Animal Crossing fans have been pining (no pun intended) for the Rococo furniture set to make a triumphant return in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (including some of us on staff), and it seems like Nintendo heard us. Among the 9,000+...
Random Saharah's Shop Is Vastly Improved On Harv's Island, Thank Goodness
Camel you believe it
Listen — it probably seems a lot like everyone is making the same mistakes all over again with Animal Crossing: New Horizons' new content, by guzzling it all up within the first few days. Trust us, we know the feeling, especially when you have a job or responsibilities, and can't keep up. (Admittedly, our job is literally to...
Random You Might Want To Clear Your Animal Crossing Home Of Cockroaches Before Villagers Visit
They'll thank you for it
Among the many new features included in yesterday's Version 2.0.0 update in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the addition of Villager visits, where Villagers either invite you round to their house for a nice chat and a game of cards, or come to visit you in your own home. Seeing your Villagers walking around your home for...
News Time Travelling Reveals New Event Coming To Animal Crossing: New Horizons This Month
Spoilers contained within
Look, we know that time travelling is a controversial act in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but someone on the Nintendo Life team (we'll avoid shaming them this time) has found an interesting discovery by doing exactly that. If the tagline above didn't grab your attention, please consider this a final warning before...
News Animal Crossing's Sanrio And Series 5 amiibo Cards Are Now Available From My Nintendo UK
Update: Series 5 cards going in and out of stock
Update 2 (Fri 5th Nov, 2021 15:55 GMT): At the time of writing, the Series 5 cards are back! They'll no doubt go in minutes again, so be quick! <products id="16118"> Update 1 (Fri 5th Nov, 2021 11:25 GMT): Incredibly, it appears that the Series 5 cards are already out of stock. Gah...
News Animal Crossing's Happy Home Paradise DLC Has Bugs, Here's How To Avoid Them
A proper fix is in the works, too
Update: The fix has arrived. Here are the full patch notes for the DLC's new update. Original Article: Animal Crossing: New Horizons' paid DLC, Happy Home Paradise, is now available to download from the Switch eShop. It offers a whole lot of new content t
Update: Patch notes are now live
Update [Fri 5th Nov, 2021 06:30 GMT]: Nintendo has now made the patch notes available for Version 2.0.0. Here they are in full - revealing all the content that's been added including DLC support and bug fixes. Ver. 2.0.0 (Released November 3, 2021) The software has been updated if you see “Ver. 2.0.0” in the...
Thursday4th Nov 2021
Gallery Check Out The Animal Crossing: New Horizons Museum In First-Person Mode
Just like in real life!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has a massive new update, and the new Pro Camera App is one of the latest additions. The new camera app adds two important features: the Handheld Camera and the Tripod Camera (learn how to unlock and use them in our guide), so now you can take
