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Guide Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise Facilities - 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 new 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!...
Guide Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Defog HM - Where To Get Defog
Where to find the Defog HM in Sinnoh
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl on Nintendo Switch let fans head back to the Sinnoh region for the first time in since the original games on Nintendo DS. While the Sinnoh games are famous for a lot of things, the sheer number of HMs that the game offers is certainly one of the most contentious. While...
Guide Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise Unlocks - When Do Features Unlock In The New Horizons DLC?
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 Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl: How To Get Mew And Jirachi
How to get two mythical Pokémon in BDSP
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl has a special treat for fans who’ve been loyal to the series on Nintendo Switch, with a special bonus available if you have save data from other Pokémon games on your console. Once upon a time they were two of the hardest Pokemon to obtain in the history of the...
Guide Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl: How To Get Manaphy And Phione
How to get two mythical Pokémon in BDSP
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl launched for Nintendo Switch in November 2021, and fans who picked up the games early are in for a special treat. For a limited time, two mythical Pokémon originally found in the Sinnoh region, Manaphy and Phione, are free to anyone who purchases the games, and...
Turtwig, Chimchar, or Piplup
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl on Nintendo Switch have had many players around the world starting their journey back to the Sinnoh region. Like all mainline Pokémon games, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl feature three starter Pokémon that players that you’ll get to choose from early in your...
Guide Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl: How To Get Riolu And Lucario
How to get two iconic Gen IV Pokémon
For fans eager to jump back in to the Sinnoh region in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, there are a few favourites they’ll be keen to pick up straight away. Riolu and Lucario, two of the most iconic generation 4 Pokémon, but in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl there’s only one area...
And exclusive Legendaries, too!
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl launch exclusively for Nintendo Switch on Friday 19th November and just like all main series games, the first decision players need to make isn't which Starter Pokémon to choose, but which version to actually buy. In these games, which serve as remakes of the original...
Guide Where To Buy Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl On Switch
Shine on you crazy Diamond
Back at the end of February 2021, news that classic DS Pokémon adventures would be coming to Switch in the remade form of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl came as a delightful surprise to millions of Pokénthusiasts, and this pair is now available to buy on Switch — check out
Guide Animal Crossing Cooking Recipes - How To Cook In New Horizons, Full Cooking Recipes List
Updated with new recipes!
Cooking has been a long requested feature in Animal Crossing and it's now a feature of Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch. 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...
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 Seasons - When Do The Seasons Change In New Horizons?
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 Harv's Island Shops - Every Plaza Character To Unlock In New Horizons
Updated with Katrina's fortunes and Redd's raffle items!
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
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...
Guide Animal Crossing Soundscapes - How To Unlock All 24 Soundscapes In Happy Home Paradise DLC
'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 new Happy Home Paradise DLC adds the option to change the weather, season, and time of day that your vacation homes are in,...
Update: You can now "search by name"!
Since Animal Crossing: New Horizons launched back in March 2020, we've seen 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 clu
Guide 50 Things In The Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update 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...
Guide Animal Crossing Lighting - How To Change Lighting In Happy Home Paradise DLC
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 Kapp'n's Boat Tours - New Horizons Island Tours Explained
Update: New island types!
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. Animal Crossing: New...
Guide Where To Buy Metroid Dread Special Edition And Samus & EMMI amiibo
Dread the scalpers
To great excitement, Nintendo revealed its newest Metroid game during their E3 Direct back in June 2021. Metroid Dread was developed by MercuryStream, who you will remember from the excellent Metroid: Samus Returns on the 3DS, and the new game launched on 8th October 2021. We called it "possibly the best Metroid game ever made" in...
Guide Where To Buy Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda
It's dangerous to Game & Watch alone
Update (18th Feb 2022): If you're in the UK, Amazon UK has the Zelda Game & Watch discounted to £39.95 at the moment. Not bad at all! Update (12th Nov 2021): It's out today! You can read our full review right here if you're interested in picking one up. Update (22nd Sep 2021):
Guide GTA Trilogy Remaster Music Tracks Confirmed By Rockstar
Rockstar confirms the radio playlists, and the missing tracks
The music you play while driving around in GTA is a huge part of the game, and players awaiting Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition were concerned that iconic missing tracks might change the flavour of the experience they remembered from the original releases. Licensed...
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...
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...
Guide Best Tabletop Mode Games For Nintendo Switch
Kick back and enjoy
Look, it's not often like the Nintendo adverts when it comes to tabletop mode gaming on Nintendo Switch. We don't all have the photogenic smiles and make a racket playing in a trendy coffee shop, but there are times and games that really do suit a bit of tabletop play. Whether solo or with friends, there is certainly an appeal to...
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...
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...
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...
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
Guide Where To Buy The Nintendo Switch Lite Pokémon Dialga & Palkia Edition
To match your old Diamond & Pearl DS Lite
The Pokémon Dialga & Palkia Edition Switch Lite has been released to coincide with the launch of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, and this fetching console not only bears the images of the two titular Legendary Pokémon, but also mirrors the Special Edition DS Lite console which launched in...
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...
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...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons Guide - Walkthrough, Tips And Hints
Bugs! Fish! Tools! Bells! Blathers!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons slowly but surely took over many of our lives – but if you're at a loss of what to do next in the game, then you should check out the tips and hints we've outlined below. If you are completely new to the series, you might want to give our Animal Crossing: New Horizons review 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...
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...
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...
Guide Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For November And December 2021
Shin Megami Tensei V! Pokémon! Danganronpa!
You hear that? That is the sound of inevitability 2022 racing up on you while you're busy getting over October. Yes, we're into the 11th hour month of the year and we've taken to amusing ourselves with the little-used but thoroughly entertaining strikeout tool in our article intros. It's been a long year,...
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...
Guide Where To Buy Mario Party Superstars
Jump up, Superstars!
Nintendo Switch already has a hip and popping Mario Party going on with Super Mario Party, but Mario Party Superstars brought back a host of popular minigames from previous entries in the long-running party game series. It launched on 29th October 2021 and includes five boards from the Nintendo 64 era — the first three games...
Guide Metroid Dread: What To Do After You Get The Super Missiles
Time to nab the Plasma Beam
Now we've got our Super Missiles in Metroid Dread and we've arrived at a new region, Elun, we're going to head straight towards our next new ability, the Plasma Beam. From the shuttle area you're now in, head right and save your progress before heading out right once again where you'll be met by a green plasma door. You...
Guide Metroid Dread: What To Do After You Get The Plasma Beam
Spin to win
So, you've been playing Metroid Dread, you've got the Plasma Beam and now you can blast multiple enemies with one shot, pierce the armour of robotic foes and, more importantly, open up those green plasma doors you've been seeing everywhere. The next step on our journey is just north of where we got our newest ability and we're going to...
