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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...
Feature Our Verdict On Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Update 2.0, The "Last Major Free Content"
Was it worth the wait?
After playing the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update for the last week, our resident representative extraordinaire Kate Gray delivers the Nintendo Life verdict on what Nintendo has stated is the final "major" free update for many a Switch owner's Game of the Year 2020... Stop me if you've heard this one before. I...
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
Talking Point The Transformative Impact Of Animal Crossing: New Horizons Version 2.0
Team NL has a virtual chat in The Roost
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has had its major version 2.0 update, which includes a bunch of freebies and also the paid DLC option of Happy Home Paradise. A number of Team NL have been enjoying its charms, and a topic that kept coming up was the new content's ability to bring back lapsed players. It's also...
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 new reactions in Animal Crossing: New Horizons' update 2.0, where to find them, and...
Guide Animal Crossing Villager Vacation Homes - How To Invite Villagers To Happy Home Paradise
It starts with a sweet treat
Happy Home Paradise is the first and only major 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...
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,...
Poll Are You Enjoying Animal Crossing: New Horizons Version 2.0?
And are you in the DLC club?
This week's big release on Switch, or update to be more accurate, was version 2.0 of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. A lot of the additions in the free update have been in demand for some time, with the likes of Brewster's cafe, gyroids, Kapp'n boat trips, tons of items and a whole lot more. Animal Crossing: New...
Guide Animal Crossing Ceiling Furniture - How To Place Furniture On The Ceiling In New Horizons
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 ambiance... 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...
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 Permanent Ladders - How To Place Permanent Ladders In New Horizons
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...
Guide Animal Crossing Storage Shed - How To Get And Use The Storage Shed In New Horizons
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-d0 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...
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...
Guide Animal Crossing Fences - How To Customize Fences In New Horizons
So fency
New characters? Farming? Cooking? Who cares!! The Animal Crossing: New Horizons update adds customisable fences, and you're presumably on this page because you're excited about it, too. But how do you customise a fence, exactly? The process is quite simple. Animal Crossing Fences Guide: Step One: Grab your fence! Grab the fence you...
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...
Feature Animal Crossing Fart Jokes Remain Lost In Translation As Kapp'n Returns In New Horizons
puppuppu!
Christmas—or rather, Friday, November 5—came early yesterday when the long-awaited version 2.0 update to Animal Crossing: New Horizons was surprisingly released more than a full day ahead of schedule. While much of the early hype surrounding the purportedly last major free content update focused on the return of
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...
Guide Animal Crossing Accent Walls - How To Change The Colour Of A Single Wall In New Horizons
Wall, wall, wall. Look who we have here
Accent walls! They're all the rage. But up until now in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, we haven't been allowed to have them — only boring walls for us. But the 2.0 update has changed that for the better, because now we can change one single wall to another wallpaper. Hooray! Animal Crossing Accent Walls...
Guide Animal Crossing Gyroids - How To Find Gyroid Fragments And Grow Gyroids In New Horizons
It's a gyroid guideroid!
Gyroids are BACK, baby — and for people who've played Animal Crossing games before, we've already experienced all the emotions that gyroids make us feel. First, confusion: What do they do? Then, horror: Why are they buried? Then, curiosity: Let's put one in my house, followed swiftly by amusement (or horror again) when...
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
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: How To Buy The Happy Home Paradise DLC
Both ways to get your hands on Happy Home Paradise
The very first (and last!) paid DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons is here, and it brings the home stylings of underappreciated 3DS game, Happy Home Designer, to your paradise islands. The pack is called
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...
Guide Animal Crossing ABD - How To Get The ATM In New Horizons
Don't leave home without it
ATMs. How do they work? It's like a big computer that eats your money and sometimes coughs it back up. No one knows where they came from, or what they want. They are a mystery. Luckily, the ABD — that stands for Automatic Bell Dispenser — is Animal Crossing: New Horizons' equivalent, and it's much less mysterious. In...
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
News Datamining Finds Thousands Of New Items In Animal Crossing: New Horizons Version 2.0
Well the download did take a while...
Nintendo has been eager to emphasize that version 2.0 of Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the first and only 'major' update to the game. We had various small updates previously of course, adding new events, items and themes, but today's arrival was far more substantial. In addition to new characters, locations...
Guide Animal Crossing Camera App - How To Use The First-Person Camera And Tripod In New Horizons
Take a picture, it'll last longer
Joy of joys, we can finally take first-person photos and selfies in Animal Crossing: New Horizons! Yes, for some of us, that means awful blurry pics up Raymond's nose, but for others, the Pro Camera App adds a wealth of possibilities. Here's how to find, unlock, and use the Pro Camera App's Handheld function, which...
PSA Leif Can Now Weed Your Animal Crossing: New Horizons Island, But It's Pricey
Costs a lot of green
The weeding process has been made a little easier in the new Animal Crossing: New Horizons update, thank Nookness! With the addition of Leif's permanent shop on Harv's Island, you can now buy flowers, bushes, crop seeds and saplings whenever you flippin' want. But there's a secret feature that we didn't know about beforehand:...
PSA Animal Crossing: New Horizons' NookLink Smartphone App Has Also Been Updated
Don't forget the app!
With all of the Version 2.0.0 shenanigans taking place in Animal Crossing: New Horizons today – it was supposed to be tomorrow and we weren't prepared, Nintendo! – you'd be forgiven for forgetting all about the NookLink app available through the Nintendo Switch Online smartphone app. You might want to remember it for just a...
Guide Animal Crossing Brewster - Where To Find Brewster And Get The Roost In New Horizons
Invite amiibo characters for coffee, too
Brewster and The Roost are finally in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but they don't just appear after the game has updated. Nope, you're going to have to earn the coffee shop and wait for it to open, too — this game is all about patience, after all. Below we take you through the steps to get the doors of...
Random This Is Not A Drill! Sea Bass Are Actually Useful Now In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
The best thing in the update, tbh
STOP THE PRESSES. This new Animal Crossing: New Horizons update brings a lot to the table — Kapp'n, Brewster, Reese, Cyrus, and so on — but what it really brings to the table is PIE. With the new Cooking update, you can now unlock recipes just by catching fish and remembering that fish are edible, which...
Watch Nintendo Life's Lovely Video Team Plays Animal Crossing: New Horizons Version 2.0
What's the date, Nintendo?
Update: The live stream is finished but you can view the whole thing above, enjoy! Original Article: We're not sure why, but Nintendo has dropped version 2.0 of Animal Crossing: New Horizons a day early, opening up all sorts of charming activities. At this stage, however, it's only the free c
Guide Animal Crossing Froggy Chair - How To Get The Froggy Chair In New Horizons
This classic item is completely unfrogettable
The legendary zoomorphic chair we've come to know and love is finally back in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and it's ready for you to claim in Update 2.0. Read on to find out how you can collect this cute chair for yourself — in six different colors, no less! Froggy Chair Animal Crossing: New...
Guide Animal Crossing K.K. Slider Songs - Concert Guide And Complete K.K. Song List For New Horizons
Updated with 12 new K.K. Slider songs!
For those who have been living under a rock since 2001, the infamous K.K. Slider — also known as Totakeke in Japan — is a beloved musical dog (a Jack Russell Terrier, to be exact) who has made appearances in every single entry of the Animal Crossing series to date, and he's back in Animal Crossing: New...
Guide Animal Crossing Ordinances - How To Enact Island Ordinances In New Horizons Explained
Early Bird? Night Owl? Bell Boomer? Beautiful!
The way Animal Crossing: New Horizons is tied to the real-world clock gives it a special flavour that we wouldn't change for the world, but it can also be inconvenient if the timetable of your residents and your island's shops doesn't work nicely with your real-life timetable. Fortunately, ordinances...
Random Today's Animal Crossing Update Adds Not One Froggy Chair, But Six Froggy Chairs
What a glorious day
As you may have already seen, this week's major free update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons has dropped a day early. Why? Who knows... But thanks, Nintendo! Anyway, while the addition of Brewster, Kapp'n, Gyroids, cooking and more are all very welcome indeed, there's one other important addition now available in-game:
News Pokémon My Nintendo Physical Rewards Are 'Coming Soon' To North America
Along with an Animal Crossing sweepstakes
A little over a week ago My Nintendo physical rewards disappeared in North America, though as we suggested at the time it was likely to be a temporary reboot for the region's options. It seems that we may now be gradually returning to physical rewards in NA, with a couple of Pokemon phone ring holders on the...
Soapbox The Switch Online Expansion Pack Is Great Value – If You Love Animal Crossing
Just hear me out...
My name is Thomas Whitehead, and I am a Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack subscriber. This is the point where you all smile and say "hello Thomas, you're with friends here". Because a lot of us are in this room, nervously clutching a cup of stale coffee, aware that out in the world there's judgement and downvotes galore...
News Animal Crossing: New Horizons Adds Handheld Lanterns For A Limited Time
Six designs to collect!
If you've been getting back into Animal Crossing: New Horizons ahead of this week's major update and paid DLC, preparing your island for the big day, you might want to make sure you pay a visit to Resident Services to grab some special limited-time items. Available right now up until 11th November are these special Handheld...
Talking Point Are You Preparing Your Island For The Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update?
Time to get back to work?
It's been about a year since I last visited egg, my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. I played a lot of Animal Crossing: New Leaf, so I knew what to expect when I booted it up again, following the jam-packed Animal Crossing Direct recently: weeds everywhere, cockroaches in my house, and villagers being more disappointed...
It's fall, y'all
With a new season in Animal Crossing: New Horizons comes new crafting recipes and materials, and the chanceto see your islands dressed up in warm tones and all kinds of spoopy decor. To celebrate the season of falling leaves, we've pulled together comprehensive lists of all things fall (or 'autumnal', if you like) in Animal...
News Animal Crossing's Happy Home Paradise Update Will Be The Game's "First And Only Paid DLC"
Launching alongside the "final major free update'
We've heard how Animal Crossing: New Horizons will soon be receiving its final major free update, but what you might not have also known is that the Happy Home Paradise expansion for the game - arriving on the same date (5th November) - will be
Trick or treat!
Halloween is one of the best events in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and it sees the annual return of one of our favourite NPCs: Jack, the Czar of Halloween. Read on to find out how you can celebrate this spooky season all throughout the month of October and make the most of that haunted night on October 31st. We've also updated...
News Nintendo Switch System Update 13.1.0 Is Now Live - Adds The Switch Online Expansion Pack
N64, Sega Mega Drive and Animal Crossing's DLC
Nintendo has just rolled out version 13.1.0 for the Switch. This is the first update it's had since the arrival of the OLED Model earlier this month. According to Nintendo Japan's customer support account on social media, this update is required to download in order to play the Switch Online 'Expansion...
Random These Incredible Animal Crossing Animated Shorts Are Essential Viewing
We'll never view island life the same way again
If you're anything like us, you'll know that there aren't many things in life as sweet and wholesome as an island full of happy Animal Crossing villagers. Nothing brings us more joy than seeing our favourite villagers doing some yoga on the beach or singing along to their favourite tune, and we...
Random Animal Crossing Player Perfectly Recreates Link’s Awakening's Mabe Village
It's the little details...
With Animal Crossing: New Horizons' mega Version 2 update just around the corner as well as the delightful looking Happy Home Paradise DLC, we're once again feeling that specific brand of deserted island hype right now. While we've been busy gushing over all the new content headed our way in November, however, other...
