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Video What Island Life Is Like In Animal Crossing: New Horizons One Month Later
Life after launch
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been out now since 20th March, so how is it holding up? Our lovely senior video producer Alex Olney has played the game for more than a month now (he got a review copy early) and is pleased to report it's still as enjoyable as when he first started it. While he's documented everything possible at...
Turnip those bulbs into bread
Have you brave souls been attempting to get rich off the Stalk Market in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, only to end up wasting all of your Bells on bad luck and timing? Wanting to dig yourself out of that pitfall hole of debt with Tom Nook? As many of us are undoubtedly familiar, the Stalk Market is an invaluable –...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: How To Choose Your Villagers
Give them their (amiibo) green card
If you've been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons for some time now you're probably set up with at least a few villagers (or should that be islanders?) and have a fairly cosy existence, but for a game that allows you to customise so much of your life, you might be feeling a bit miffed at some of the so-called...
Blooming wonderful
At the start of April many of the trees on your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island turn a beautiful pink hue and cherry-blossom petals begin lilting around on the breeze. That's because cherry blossom season arrives each year from 1st - 10th April (running concurrently with the Bunny Day event). You can collect this cherry...
Video Billie Eilish's Bad Guy Gets A 'Bass Guy' Animal Crossing Parody
"They’re the hell type, just 400 bells type "
Before balloons and eggs took over pretty much everything, Animal Crossing: New Horizons' biggest annoyance was bass. No matter where, when, or how you decided to fish
Random Animal Crossing's Isabelle Makes Resident Evil 3 Even More Terrifying
Nope
We don't care what the subtitles say, that's definitely not Jill. The new, shiny Resident Evil 3 remake landed on other platforms towards the end of last week, bringing its fair share of scary moments and stunning visuals, but this particular sight is arguably more terrifying than anything else the game has to offer. Modder Crazy Potato has...
News Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update 1.1.4 Patch Notes - We Bring Egg-Cellent News
A cracking update
Following hot on the heels of Versions 1.1.2 and 1.1.3, Animal Crossing: New Horizon Version 1.1.4 is now available. Those of you who have been slightly annoyed by the game's recent
Random Stephen Fry Is Somewhat Perplexed By Animal Crossing: New Horizons
"Is it, in this sense, a metaphor for life itself?"
We've heard how the Captain Marvel star Brie Larsen has been enjoying Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but did you know there are other famous people out there playing it? Yep - it's true, other people who also have attained celebrity status in this world seem to like Nintendo Switch games. The...
News Xbox Adaptive Controller Allows Inspiring Gamer To Play Animal Crossing On Switch
Island life is for everyone
We've heard previously how the Xbox Adaptive Controller is compatible with the Nintendo Switch, and it seems players far and wide have been making good use of this nifty tool ever since. Yesterday, Pure Xbox shared a story about a disabled gamer – by the name of EyeGazeGirl on Twitter – who has been using this...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Golden Tools - How To Get Golden Tools Explained
Go for gold
So, you've been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons for a while and you're fed up of your axe, shovel and fishing rod breaking every five minutes. You're probably wondering how to craft Golden Tools. On this page we'll look at the different methods and requirements to unlock every Golden Tool available
Guide Animal Crossing: amiibo And Harv's Island - How To Use amiibo In New Horizons
Those cards you've been hoarding will come in handy after all!
Let's face it — many of us Animal Crossing fans made a fairly significant financial investment in Animal Crossing amiibo cards and amiibo figures during the New Leaf days. We then held onto our hoards, hoping they would come in handy once the mythical new Switch game released.
News Xenoblade Studio Monolith Soft Actually Helped Out With Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Embracing island life
Here's something you probably didn't know, Monolith Soft – the talented company behind the Xenoblade Chronicles series – helped out with Animal Crossing: New Horizons. No, this isn't some late April Fool's joke, it's all according to a new listing on the Japanese developer's website. Unfortunately, there are no extra...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Stringfish - Where, When And How To Catch The Rare Stringfish
String(fish) section
There are a bunch rare fish to find in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, including the Stringfish. It's only available for four months of the year which will be different depending on your hemisphere) and then only in one specific location on your island, which makes it a touch rarer than the Golden Trout, a fish you catch in...
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...
Feature Why We Think Crazy Redd Will Bring His Artwork To Animal Crossing: New Horizons
We're Redd-y for ya, cousin
For those who have played any of the previous entries in the Animal Crossing series, you're all-too-familiar with that crazy black market-dealing fox named Redd. Love him or hate him, he carries wares that are impossible to find anywhere else – including counterfeits and fakes. The paintings, statues and sculptures –...
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, se
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,
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...
Video Areas You Weren't Meant To See In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Things get weird beyond your usual line of sight
If you're interested in game development or simply getting to see things that you're not supposed to, you'll definitely want to give this video a watch. YouTuber user Shesez has shared a new video which takes the camera of Animal Crossing: New Horizons to places that it shouldn't ordinarily go. For...
Random Pokémon's Pallet Town Looks Adorable In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
A wonderful recreation
For most of us, creating an in-game living space that resembles anything remotely appealing is probably cause for celebration, but some Animal Crossing: New Horizons players are just painfully creative. Earlier this week, we saw someone transform their New Horizons island into a faithful recreation of The Legend of Zelda's...
Random Animal Crossing's Grandma Superfan Receives Limited Edition New Horizons Switch
And she's shared an unboxing video
One of the best things to come out of the Animal Crossing community over the past year or so is the story of Audrey (or Audie, as she's known in-game), the now 88-year-old grandma who first rose to fame for clocking in a whopping 3,500+ hour playtime on Animal Crossing: New Leaf. She's become something of an...
News Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update 1.1.3 Patch Notes - Update Fixes An Annoying Bug
That was quick!
Nintendo isn't hanging around when it comes to patching Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Only yesterday did we get Version 1.1.2 which fixed the 'villager moving out' bug, and today we've got another patch which solves the irksome problem of
News Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update 1.1.2 Patch Notes - What's Fixed And Changed
Update: Full patch notes now available in English
Nintendo has just issued Animal Crossing: New Horizons update 1.1.2, which fixes some bugs found within the game since launch. (UPDATE: Version 1.1.3 has also just been released, but it's less grand than this particular update, with only a single bug fix.) The
Random Please Nintendo, Animal Crossing: New Horizons Needs A Balloon Nerf Right Now
And patch that glitch while you're at it
Have you taken a look at the skies above your island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons recently and noticed there are continual balloon fly-overs? Well, you're not alone. There appears to have been an increased rate of balloon spawns in the lead-up to Bunny Day and it's starting to drive some players...
Poll Animal Crossing: New Horizons - What Would You Like To See Added In An Update?
Solid suggestions or gilding the lily?
It's safe to say that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has gone down rather well with fans of the series and new players alike. Social media has been absolutely swamped posts as people get busy on their deserted islands, filling their Critterpedias with bugs and fish, designing their own clothes, remodelling their...
Random Design Your Own Animal Crossing Villager With This Online Tool
Design your own dream team
Everyone has their favourite and least favourite villager designs in Animal Crossing: New Horizons - ostriches are the best and we won't hear any other arguments - but what if you could design your own set of animals to live with you? Well, now you (sort of) can thanks to this new fan-made tool. Created by ipzy, the tool...
News Some Animal Crossing: New Horizons Players Are Reporting A New Progress-Stopping Glitch
Update: Nintendo swoops in with a fix
Update: It would appear that Nintendo heard you loud and clear, as a new patch - taking the game to Version 1.1.3 - has now fixed the issue. That was fast. Original Article: Animal Crossing: New Horizons has taken the world by storm, but that's not to say it hasn't had one or two minor hiccups along the way,...
Random Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Easter Bunny Really Doesn't Like His Job
Give Zipper a break, will ya?
With Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Bunny Day event now in full swing, it's hard not to notice the brand new elephant - or rabbit - in the room. Yes, Zipper has been bouncing around everyone's island over the past day or so, and he's incredibly enthusiastic about, well... Pretty much everything. As you'll know if...
