Tag Archives: Animal Crossing: New Horizons

When the first Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab) summer update was announced, I suddenly felt a renewed sense of purpose wash over me. I’ve never missed a single day since I started island life on my very own little sandy shores, but before the update came out, …

I inadvertently took a month-long break from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the longest I’ve gone without collecting Bells and bugs since before the game was released in late March. Upon my return to my island paradise, I discovered (to my abject horror) that it was infested with bugs that I …

The struggle to populate your Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab) with great villagers like Raymond is real.  That struggle has naturally created a black market whereby players can spend IRL money for amiibo cards (at the time of writing, there’s not even an amiibo card for Raymond). …

The Animal Crossing: New Horizons Nature Day event is here! For a few weeks you’ll be able to earn a reward and plenty of Nook Miles for doing activities related to good old Planet Earth – or whatever your island is called.  Don’t forget to download the big Animal Crossing: …

Forget terraforming your Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab) island, try building one entirely on an empty toilet paper roll. YouTube (opens in new tab) artist ClayClaim (aka Simon) did just that, building a 360° model out of polymer clay on one of many cardboard rolls. Check out …

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab) involves a lot of button-tapping, whether you’re hurrying Blathers through his ramblings or crafting fish bait. So one player took matters into their own hands – or rather, out of them – and built a mechanical toy to tap through the crafting …

Spice up your Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab) wardrobe and decor with this video that rolls through more than 500 designs and their QR codes in just over four minutes. The video from Nerd Attack is a compilation of community-created designs, many of which are drawn directly …

There’s so many things about Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab) that are amazing, from the new-and-improved museum to the perpetual mocking of Tom Nook online. As always, customization is one of the best features of the series, but the latest installment is taking that to the next …

If you go fishing long enough in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab), you’ll eventually reel in a reference to another popular Nintendo franchise: Splatoon. As Splatoon News pointed out on Twitter (opens in new tab), catching a squid in Animal Crossing: New Horizons prompts your character to …

Certain customers have been notified that their Animal Crossing: New Horizons pre-orders (opens in new tab) on Amazon have been delayed until Tuesday, 24 March.  Posts on Reddit have started appearing of people saying they’ve received emails that their pre-orders of Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab) won’t …