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Lessons learned
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a game all about kicking back, hanging with your friends and exploring an island you’ve decided to start a new life on, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. The series has been known to sneak in plenty of extra features and ways to get things done and since the game doesn’t always...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Iron Nuggets - How To Get Iron Nuggets, Gold Nuggets And Ore
Strike while the iron is hot
Early on, iron nuggets are both one of the most necessary, and hard-to-come-by, crafting ingredients in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (besides gold nuggets, that is). Not only is it required for many essential upgrades to progress your island - including those (30!) needed to build Nook's Cranny - but it is also one of...
Plunder another paradise for iron nuggets
If you're running low on resources — iron nuggets, stone, wood — or you want to brighten up your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island with some different fruit trees, bamboo or flowers, the easiest way is to use a Nook Miles Ticket and go on an excursion to a randomly generated Mystery Island. If you're...
Give your Animal Crossing island more character
When you begin your new life in Animal Crossing: New Horizons you'll start with just two villagers joining you on your not-so-deserted island. However, in order to make progress and turn your paradise into a bustling hub of activity, you will need to attract new villagers to your Animal Crossing...
Gotta slog to get that dog and scrap to get that app
Ever since terraforming was first revealed in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct, fans have been desperate to tinker with their island’s geography. Similarly, everyone wants their favourite guitar playing doggo K.K Slider to visit their island, but how can you make both of these...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Ladder Tool - How To Unlock The Ladder
Moving on up
So, you've already crafted your axe, shovel and vaulting pole to get yourself over rivers and explore your love new island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, yet there's still that raised bit at the back that remains inaccess
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Hair Guide - How To Get More Hairstyles And Colors Explained
Get yourself a new 'do
One fantastic upgrade in Animal Crossing: New Horizons from previous generations of Animal Crossing games has been the ability to choose your own hairstyle; however, the options can feel a bit limited at the start. From the beginning of the game, you'll be able to choose between eight different hairstyles (four more longer...
Island paradise is better together
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is one of the best games on Nintendo Switch. Excitingly, the game rewards you for connecting with other players in several ways. For example, non-native fruit collected on friends’ islands will earn you more Bells when you sell it relative to native fruit harvested from your own...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Shovel Tool - How To Unlock And Upgrade Your Shovel
Shovel it
You've just started Animal Crossing: New Horizons and looking to get your hands on a shovel. You'll need to craft your tools using the DIY recipes you find or are given by characters as you progress through the first hours of the game. To unlock the shovel recipe you'll need to have done two things already — crafted yourself a Flimsy...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Swimming - Can You Swim?
How about a paddle?
If you played Animal Crossing: New Leaf on 3DS and are now taking your first steps on your new desert island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you may well be looking forward to diving into the lovely HD ocean of the Switch entry in Nintendo's life sim series. The question "Can you swim in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?" was one...
The old trick still works a treat
If Animal Crossing: New Horizons is your first experience of Nintendo's sedate life-sim series, you may be struggling to find materials you need to craft essential tools. Hitting rocks is one way to gather valuable resources like iron nuggets, clay, stones, several bugs and even
Big decisions
Anyone playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons will have faced several key decisions before embarking on their adventure, from choosing a tent location to deciding which hairstyle to go with. Naming your Animal Crossing island, though, is perhaps the biggest decision of all. You don't want to be stuck on a deserted island with the vil
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Gulliver Souvenir List - How To Wake Gulliver
Wasting shovels digging up the entire beach?
Many Animal Crossing: New Horizons players have had the fortune of randomly stumbling upon a washed-up seagull by the name of Gulliver on their shores. Waking Gulliver and helping him will get you an exclusive souvenir from the sailor's worldwide travels, so it's well worth the effort to give Gulliver a...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: How To Get An Axe And Stone Axe
An axe to grind
You're not going to get far in Animal Crossing: New Horizons without an axe, and the good news is that it's one of the first tools you'll be getting your hands on. To unlock the axe recipe – basically the document required to craft an axe – you'll need to speak to Tom Nook in the Resident Services tent. Give him fish or
Tree lugging
Animal Crossing: New Horizons offers more customisation tools and opportunities to shape the form of your town to your liking than ever before. It used to be that arranging your Oaks and Douglas Firs (Cedars, actually) involves careful and considered planting and patience as your seed became a sapling and eventually took root to become...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Tool Ring - How To Quickly Switch Between Tools
The right tool for the job at hand
Tools are a key part of Animal Crossing: New Horizons – you'll need them to do things like catch bugs, snag fish, chop wood an
Face full of wasp stings? We've got the something for that
Oh dear. Been shaking trees and bothering bees, have you? Or perhaps just harvesting wood for crafting? Fortunately, you're not doomed to forever wander your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island for eternity with a face full of wasp stings. In fact, you've got a couple of options for ridding...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Tents - Can I Move My Tent?
Relocation, relocation, relocation
So, you're settling down to several hundred hours on your deserted island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You've landed, been given the brief from your guides, but now it's time to set up your tent. Veterans will know that your tent will eventually become your bricks-and-mortar house, so deciding where to pitch...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Vaulting Pole - How To Pole Vault Across Rivers
Pole position
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has loads of lovely rivers in it, but there's one big problem – because there are no bridges (at least not at the start of the game), you can't cross them without the proper gear. That gear is the Vaulting Pole, which is an item you'll want to get your grubby hands on as soon as possible. As with the...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Pockets Inventory Upgrade - How To Expand Your Item Storage
To have and to hold
Item storage has been something of a headache in Animal Crossing games since they began, and when you boot up Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the first time, you'll notice that you only have two rows of storage – that's space for 20 items in total. That might seem like a lot initially, but you'll soon fill that up as you go...
Find the code to get Pocket Camp goodies in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
If you play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp on your iOS or Android phone (or have every played it, or fancy playing it now), you are able to get your hands on special in-game items and swag in the Switch game Animal Crossing: New Horizons. On this page we'll take you...
How to get everyone's number one waifu
Let's face it, Isabelle is a huge part of the Animal Crossing world – she's everyone's favourite dependable helper and her positive outlook makes light work of even the hardest in-game task. However, upon firing up Animal Crossing: New Horizons you might be disappointed to discover she's nowhere to be seen...
The first stumbling block?
If you've picked up Animal Crossing: New Horizons recently, before you get to rare fish and bugs or deciding where to put your tent (don't worry too much —
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Blathers - How To Unlock The Museum And Blathers
How to access that most famous of buildings
Animal Crossing's museum is one of the most important buildings in the game – but when you boot up Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you might be surprised by the fact that it's not present from the beginning. To get the museum, you'll need to undertake a series of steps. Animal Crossing: New Horizons...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Custom Designs - How To Customize Furniture And Import Designs
NookLink and importing custom designs explained
Just as with previous entries in Nintendo's sedate life-sim series, Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch enables you to make custom designed art to use throughout the world as clothing, paving, skins for your items or just the beautiful works of at they are proudly displayed on a canvas. With people...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Bells - How To Make Bells Fast, Nook Miles And Money Explained
Get rich quick in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons took the world by storm and many of you will no doubt have landed and taken up residence on your new island already. While there's a focus on crafting in the Switch entry in the series, you'll still find yourself needing Bells, the main currency in Animal Crossing. So what...
Bibbity-bobbity-boo
There are many great things about Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but one of them is the ability to create a huge and varied wardrobe. When the game launched it was hard to avoid the amazing number of Custom Designs players have created and shared online, but even if you're not the creative type to import or make your own cust
Guide Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For April And May 2020
Trials of Mana, Wonderful 101 and lots more
With 2020 grinding to something of a halt for many people around the world, the upcoming Switch game releases for April and May are perhaps more interesting than the average springtime months for many of us. Fortunately, we've got some gems to look forward to in the coming weeks. Animal Crossing: New...
Better hop to it!
Whilst island life may never get old for some players, a number of Animal Crossing: New Horizons festive events exist to help keep gameplay fresh, and Bunny Day — which starts every year on April 1st — is just one of them. April marks several changes to your island, including cherry blossom colouring some of your trees and...
It’s all coming up (hybrid) roses
No Animal Crossing: New Horizons island would be complete without a dash of floral colour. Thankfully, there are flowers aplenty to choose from right from the start of the game and, if you’re clever about it, lots of rare hybrid varieties as well. But how do you go about growing flowers and breeding hybrids?...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening Walkthrough: A Guide To Wake From Kohohit Island
Don't go alone, take this
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is one of the most beloved entries in the entire series, despite the fact that it made its debut on one of the most technically humble pieces of Nintendo hardware: the Game Boy. Since then, it has been reborn on the Game Boy Color, but it is the Switch remake has brought it to an even...
Guide 8 Steps To Making Your Gaming Backlog A Thing Of The Past
Sure you still want everything on Switch?
The backlog is a dangerous beast, one that haunts players far and wide. You can see all of the new games upon the horizon that you’re itching to get your hands on, like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Doom Eternal and someday even Metroid Prime 4. But what about the pile of games waiting for you at home?...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Everything We Know So Far
NookPhone? Yay! No cloud saves? Booo…
Following its reveal in 2018, we’ve all been clamouring for more information about Animal Crossing: New Horizons. If you’re after details on the game - scheduled to arrive very soon on 20th March 2020 - you’ve come to the right place; we’ve compiled everything we know so far about Animal Crossing: New...
Guide Pokémon Sword And Shield: Pokédex Galar Region
The full Gen 8 Galar Region Pokédex from Pokémon Sword and Shield
Pokémon Sword and Shield brought Gen 8 to Switch last November and to celebrate we created the sparkling Gen 8 Pokémon database below. It features the full Galar Pokédex, including the 81 new Gen 8 Pokémon and all returning Pokémon. Use the tool below to find out about the new...
Guide How To Spot Fake Paintings And Statues In Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Putting an end to Redd's 'crazy' ways
Looking for information on Crazy Redd in Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch? You'll be wanting to read our guide on how to spot fake paintings and statues in New Horizons, then! If you're after information on fakes and forgeries in New Leaf on 3DS, very good! As you were... We've all been there before...
Guide Check Out The Best Fan-Made Animal Crossing Merch On Etsy
Crazy Redd approved
What's that? There's a new Animal Crossing game coming to Switch in March, you say? Jeepers creepers, how did I miss that news, macmoo?! Yes, as we're sure practically anybody who's ever played a Nintendo console knows by now, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is coming to Switch soon. In the run up to release we've seen a host of...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: All Villagers and Special Character Confirmed So Far
Update: Over 50 Villagers Added!
A major part of what makes the Animal Crossing series so memorable is its wonderful and wacky characters. Anyone who's played any of the previous entries can most likely list a few of their favourite villagers off the top of their heads. So with the latest entry in the series, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, landing...
Guide Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For March And April 2020
The biggest Switch games and accessories on the horizon
We're well into 2020 now and the buds of spring are starting to appear on the gaming calendar. After the onslaught of last holiday season, we've been through a leaner couple of months with fewer big name games launching during the winter. Hopefully your backlog is in good order, because that's...
Guide Zelda: Link's Awakening: All Heart Pieces Map and Locations
All 32 heart pieces and the final heart container
Having trouble hunting down the heart pieces in the Nintendo Switch remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening? We’ve got you covered with a map and full solution for each one, with an indication of the tools required and when they become available to you. Also featured: where to find the...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Games For Lovers And Lonely Hearts
Curl up with your Switch
When love is in the air it can be invigorating for those with Cupid's arrow embedded in their chest... or downright sickening for anyone who finds themselves down in the dumps. Whether you're energised by the twin glories of love and affection or have had it up to your eyeballs with commercialised lovey-dovey nonsense, we...
Guide Where To Buy Pokémon Mystery Dungeon On Nintendo Switch
Catch 'em all
Announced back in January as part of the Pokémon Direct, the upcoming Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX for Switch is a remake of a original pair of dungeon-crawling Pokémon games that straddled the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS systems. As a pair of fan favourite spin-offs,
February 2020 Pokémon GO events bring a plethora of pink Pokémon
February 2020 is shaping up to be one of Pokémon GO's busiest months ever with developer Niantic announcing a whole bunch of events across the month. Below we've rounded them all up in roughly chronological order (there's a lot of overlap!) so you don't miss out on catching 'em all...
Guide Pokémon Sword And Shield Easter Eggs - Things You Might Have Missed
It's the little things
Both Pokémon Sword and Shield feature a rich world full of things to see and do, and it's easy to miss little things as you wander around the Galar region catching Pokémon, seeing the sights and generally enjoying yourself in Sword and Shield. Below we've rounded up a few of the smaller Easter Eggs, moments or features that...
Guide Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For February And March 2020
Darksiders Genesis, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and more!
Welcome to the future! Yes, we're a month into 2020 and what a treat it has been to finally get our hands on our jet packs, silver jumpsuits and brain chips! Our lives have improved immeasurably with all this future tech, although we're already dreading next year's service bill on our...
Guide Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Version Patch Notes - Every Update Since Launch Detailed
Full patch notes and update history for Smash Bros. Ultimate
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is in a constant state of flux, with new characters being added and balance adjustments being made all of the time. We've pulled together the full patch notes for the game so you can see just how it has evolved over time. Smash Bros Full Patch Notes List:...
Guide New Nintendo Switch Games Coming In 2020
Full list inside
A new year has begun, and that means there's a whole bunch of new Nintendo Switch games to get all excited about. We’ve got you covered with a full list of 2020 Switch and eShop release dates, and we’ll be updating this guide all year long, refreshing and rotating in new titles so you always know which lovely new games are on...
Guide Here's How To Play Fire Emblem Warriors For Free, Even Without A Japanese Switch
Play free all week long
Starting from today and running until 26th January, Nintendo Switch Online users in Japan are being granted access to the entirety of Fire Emblem Warriors for free. The game will then be locked after that date (unless you buy the full thing), but if you've got plenty of time over the next few days you could certainly see what...
Sword or Shield? Every exclusive Pokémon detailed
As with all main series Pokémon games before them, Pokémon Sword and Shield each have minor differences which you should know about before jumping in. You'll notice different Pokémon and even Gym Leaders appearing in your game depending on the version you buy, so we've gathered all of the...
Quest Details for all Six Stages - New Special Research Drops as Team GO Rocket Invasion Intensifies
There’s never a dull moment in Pokémon GO. Squeezing itself in before Pokémon chatter turns to Sword and Shield’s release next week, and hot on the heels of the Halloween and ‘Colossal Discovery’ events, Niantic have put live another new...
Guide New Nintendo Switch Games Coming In 2020
Full list of all announced Switch games for 2020 and beyond
So, 2020, eh? What a weird one this year has turned out to be! Below you'll find the full 2020 list of remaining Switch and eShop releases for the rest of the year and beyond. This guide will be updated with every single release announced for Switch, too, so you'll always know what's...