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Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Megaphone Guide - How To Use, Where To Buy
It's mega
The Megaphone is an item added to Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. Returning from New Leaf, it uses the console's exclusive features to help you locate villagers. This guide covers everything you need to know about the Megaphone, including how to get it, how to use it, and... just how reliable it really is...
Review Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch) - An Approachable And Addictive Masterpiece
The shores of Bell
Over four years since Update 2.0.0 — which was billed as the "last major free content" — Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update 3.0.0 has arrived, alongside the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. Given the wealth of additions, we're republishing our review with an extra
Nook and see
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition and the accompanying Ver. 3.0 update arrived on 15th January 2026, and there's a lot packed into them. Below, we've listed everything included in the ACNH 3.0 update — which is available to the base Switch 1 game too — and outlined all of the Switch 2 Edition additions...
News Retro Nintendo Games Are Returning To Animal Crossing (Sort Of)
One game per system
As you've no doubt seen, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting another massive update early next year, along with a Switch 2 Edition with the expected enhancements (Mouse Mode, wooo). But amongst all the Bells and whistles announced, you might have missed the news that retro Nintendo games are also returning to the series...
Soapbox Crossing The Line: How I Helped Corrupt The Animal Crossing Economy
New Horizons for NMT fungibility
It's midnight by the pier. I check I’m alone, feel nervously into my pocket and count the money with my fingers. It's all there: 40 massive sacks of coins. Big pocket. I flip up the lid of the wheelie bin and dump the lot. 4 million bells erased from the universe and no one need ever know. How did it come to this?...
Poll One Year After The DLC, Are You Still Playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
Plugging away at Paradise, or has the sun set?
It's now one whole year since the Happy Home Paradise DLC dropped for Game of the Pandemic 2020/21, Animal Crossing: New Horizons. If you cast your minds back a full 365 days, you may recall that the DLC came just after a sizeable 2.0 update to the base game, and while most of us thought we had w
News Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Celebrating Tomato-Throwing With A Tomato T-Shirt
You say tomato, we say "yes please"
It's almost the end of August, which means it's almost time for Spain's La Tomatina festival, an event in which the residents of Valencian town Buñol throw a bunch of the goopy red fruits at each other until the town square looks like ragu. Isabelle's apparently just come back from her holidays in Spain, because...
Rover's return
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons May Day event arrives, as you may well guess, at the start of May. It originally came to the game as part of an update along with the arrival of old favourite characters Leif the Sloth and (dodgy) art dealer Redd
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: New Year's Eve Guide - Tom Nook New Year Items List
Don't forget your auld acquaintance
It's a well-known fact that New Year's Eve parties are usually a bit rubbish. Aside from the occasional rockin' house party or swish 'n' swinging shindig, they often turn out to be expensive, disappointing evenings that lead to you starting the new year not refreshed and optimistic, but with a thick head and a lot...
Guide Every Animal Crossing Amiibo Card For New Horizons & New Leaf
Welcome, amiibo!
Looking for info on the six extra Sanrio amiibo cards? They're so special we've given them their own Animal Crossing Sanrio amiibo card guide. All others can be found below, including the newest additions in the Series 5 set — enjoy!
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Islands - Get Inspired By The Best Islands We've Seen So Far
Putting our meagre island efforts to shame
Since Animal Crossing: New Horizons launched back in March 2020, a large community of gamers have been sharing incredible custom designs created for the game, and they've only gotten more impressive since the launch of the Happy Home Paradise DLC. However, perhaps even more impressive are the amazing lan
It's the most wonderful time of the year!
Christmastime is just one of the many annual events celebrated in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, appropriately branded in-game as 'Toy Day'. In this guide, we'll take you through everything you need to know about the Toy Day event and returning character Jingle. Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Toy Day...
Welcome to episode 74,651 of 'Japan Gets All The Best Stuff'
The idea that Japan gets all the best stuff is a long-established and indisputable fact. In the West we tend to either get cheap tat on the level of a McDonald's toy or super premium figures and statues costing thousands — but Japan seems to get a ton of quality everyday video game merch...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Happy Home Paradise DLC - How To Remodel Villagers' Homes
Get that ugly furniture OUT OF HERE
You may have heard that it's now possible to remodel your Animal Crossing: New Horizons villagers' ugly, gift-filled homes on your island. It's true! Buuuut... you'll have to jump through a few hoops first. Luckily for you, we've figured out those hoops! So, without further ado, here's how to unlock the ability...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Stretching - Group Stretching Rewards
Calisthenics, not yoga
It's relatively common in Japanese work culture to have group daily exercise, though occasionally those sessions are arguably a tad intense. It's a good idea for all of us to stretch and keep fit, however, and now Animal Crossing: New Horizons has a rather charming way to participate in game. In this group stretching guide,...
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...
Feature Psychologists Talk Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 And Keeping Fun Ahead Of FOMO
Keep the "happy" in Happy Home Paradise
Animal Crossing: New Horizons was supposed to be just a game. Through a series of weird coincidences, it instead became a cultural phenomenon, and a record of the first few months of a global pandemic. It’s not surprising that a lot of us have complicated feelings about it. Granted, a lot of those feelings...
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:
Beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, chickens, turkeys, rabbits - you name it!
Thanksgiving is just one of the many annual events celebrated in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, branded in-game as 'Turkey Day'. Yummy! In this guide, we'll take you through everything you need to know about the Turkey Day event and Franklin the turkey. Animal Crossing:...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Full Patch Notes & Version History
A list of every Animal Crossing: New Horizons update ever
It's fair to say that Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch changed quite a bit since it released for Nintendo's console in March 2020. The life sim saw numerous updates in the months post-launch, with new seasonal events, new characters, new items and more added over time — not to...
Gyroids? Brewster? The return of Tortimer?
It's been about two weeks since the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons' massive 2.0 update, as well as the Happy Home Paradise DLC, so hopefully most of you have had a good crack at it so far! With two weeks of Brewster,
It's more complicated than you think!
In the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Happy Home Paradise DLC, your pay, your uniform, and even your abilities are all tied to your "Grade" — the title Lottie gives you after you've done a certain number of houses. However, later Grades also rely on a secret number — your Rank. Thanks to an in-depth...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Happy Home Paradise - How To Unlock All Facilities Explained
How to unlock the school, café, restaurant, hospital, and apparel shop!
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons Happy Home Paradise DLC has a lot of extra stuff to discover, but most of it gets parcelled out over several days of playing the game. If you're wondering how you can get all the fancy facilities that other people have, we're here to help!...
Partition walls, pillars, parties and promotions!
Having fun with the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Happy Home Paradise DLC? Or are you seeing other people's designs and thinking, "When do I get to do that?" In this Happy Home Paradise unlock guide we'll detail how and when you unlock everything in Happy Home Paradise! How to unlock everything...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Cooking Recipes - How To Cook, Full Recipe List
Recipeasy
Cooking was a long-requested feature in Animal Crossing and it is now part of Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch 1 and 2. In this guide, we'll take you through the basics of cooking and give you a full list of all cooking recipes in New Horizons. We're digging into all of the delicious recipes and ingredients added in the 2.0 update...
LLA SWONK LATSYRC EHT!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons finally brought back fan-favourite fortune-teller, Katrina, in the massive 2.0 update — but her fortunes work slightly differently than they did in New Leaf. If you're wondering what on earth it means to have good luck with belongings, or how her new friendship readings affect your pals back on...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Seasons - When Do The Seasons Change?
Winter is coming
You might be annoyed when shops start to put up all their Christmas gear in mid-September (or even earlier — we saw baubles in August this year), but in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, we can't wait for the snow to start. But when will it happen? Check out all the dates below. Spring Northern Hemisphere: February 25th — May...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Harv's Island Shops - Every Campsite Plaza Character To Unlock
Absolute wallbanger
The expansion of Harv's Island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is one of the most substantial additions that came with the 2.0 update. We've had fun using amiibo for photoshoots on Harv's island, not to mention the month-long wedding season, but the co-op campsite fi
Make it count(er)
Decorating houses in Animal Crossing: New Horizons has, since its release, been largely about how to use furniture in inventive ways. You can use the climbing wall item backwards to look like a regular wall, or the Shell and Tree's Bounty arches to add the appearance of curves in your doorways. But all of that has been made...
'Ear all about it
We've had the ability to play K.K. Slider's music in our houses since the beginning, but Animal Crossing: New Horizons now offers the chance to turn your rooms into a "soundscape". If you've got a nautical-themed room, add the pleasant sounds of seagulls, or if you have a little café, add the bustle of people doing café things!...
Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall, all you have to do is call
Your gorgeous Animal Crossing: New Horizons vacation home designs are beautiful to look at, but don't you think they're just missing that certain je ne sais quoi? The Happy Home Paradise DLC adds the option to change the weather, season, and time of day that your vacation homes are in, so...
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:
Gallery You Can Put Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Gyroids In The Bath... Or The Microwave
Don't worry, they don't mind
Gyroids are somewhere in-between pets, instruments, and weird little guys that live in your house. But one of their secret features is that they come with a little shelf, so you can put them on the wall... and some people have discovered that they can clip through furniture to create the effect of being in, or on, the...
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...
You can now "search by name"!
Soon after Animal Crossing: New Horizons launched back in March 2020, we saw some really incredible islands appear online and looked on enviously at idyllic rural escapes, urban metropolises using intricate custom designs, themed villages and much more besides. They certainly put our cluttered
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: 2.0 Update - 50 Things You Might Have Missed
Update: 20 more things added!
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons update is chock-a-block with fantastic things to find, and not all of them are immediately obvious. In fact, some weren't even in the Animal Crossing Direct! Here are the 50 things that brought us joy while we explored our new 2.0 paradise — most of them from the free update, so...
Brightness, dimness, and colourness!
Everyone has opinions on the Big Light. You know what the Big Light is, even if you don't — it's the main overhead light in a room, and people either love it (it's bright!) or hate it (it's loud!). For those who can't stand the Big Light, there is a solution: mood lighting. This is achievable in real life with...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Kapp'n's Boat Tours - Island Tours Explained
Back to the island
Of all the special characters in Animal Crossing, Kapp'n is one of the most beloved. Yet, with all the hubbub around Brewster, we hardly saw anyone clamouring for the return of the sea captain chanteur! Well, we're happy to have you back, Kapp'n — not least because you can take us to new places. In
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...
Shine bright like a diamond
You would be forgiven for thinking that polishing, one of the new features introduced in Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Happy Home Paradise expansion (which is quite a mouthful), looked a bit... duff. After all, why would you want to make our furniture sparkle? We thought the same thing, too, when we first unlocked the...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Reactions List - How To Unlock
Learn to stretch, flex, listen, and act natural!
Oh, hello there! Welcome to my wonderful study. My name is Professor Reactions, and I have a PhD in Reactions. Talk about nominative determinism, am I right? Anyway, I know why you're all here: To learn about the 11 reactions in Animal Crossing: New Horizons' update 2.0, where to find them, and how...
It starts with a sweet treat
Happy Home Paradise is the first and only paid expansion to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and it is very much a fresh take and expansion upon the rather charming Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer that we saw on 3DS. The campaign introduces new abilities gradually, but one that you can learn early on is to invite...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Ceiling Furniture - How To Place Items On The Ceiling
Oh, what a feeling, when we're decorating on the ceiling
Ceiling furniture is real in Animal Crossing: New Horizons! No more wall lamps! Or, well, you can keep wall lamps if you enjoy the ambience... but at least now we have the choice! Read on for tips on how to get ceiling furniture in your house. Animal Crossing Ceiling Furniture: Get some...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Permanent Ladders - How To Place, Benefits Over Inclines
Step one, step two, step three...
Ladders: they're like stairs, but you have to use your whole body. Everyone knows stairs are easier, but not everyone can afford stairs in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, whether that's financially or spatially, and ladders are a cheap, renewable resource for ascending cliffs without forking out a ton of Bells for a...
Get your green thumbs ready
If you've already made yourself a wee pumpkin farm in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you'll likely already know a lot about farming in the game! All the same, you might be asking: Where do I even find all the new crops? Fear not, budding farmer. You don't have to know much about gardening to follow our tips! Animal...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Storage Shed - How To Get & Use The Sheds
50 sheds of yay
When Animal Crossing: New Horizons' update 2.0 was announced, many of us had the same thought: Oh no. My island is a mess. And there's no room for a farm... The thought of having to reorganise all that space, re-do all the terraforming, move around a bunch of objects — well, it put some of us off. Thank Nookness that the storage...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Island Life 101 App Explained - Should You Buy It?
Learn how to cross your animals!
The Island Life 101 App is designed to help out newcomers to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, young children, and grown-ups who've forgotten everything about the game since they last played. It's not exactly a tutorial, because you can't select a subject you want to know more about. Here's how it works. Animal...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Fencing - How To Customise Fences
So fency
New characters? Farming? Cooking? Who cares!! The Animal Crossing: New Horizons update 2.0 added customisable fences, and you're presumably on this page because you were excited about it, too. But how do you customise a fence, exactly? The process is quite simple. [to
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+...
