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Producer Katsuya Eguchi and a trio of developers from the Animal Crossing 3DS team spend ten minutes discussing how the latest iteration of the animal life sim will set itself apart from the rest. They had me at skirts and pants. More »
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Don't get what's motivating Occupy Wall Street, or any of the Occupy demonstrations worldwide? Look to a video game, writes one blogger. He believes Animal Crossing supplies an allegory for the protesters' anger, and it involves being pressed into servitude by a debt you had little choice but to acquire. More »
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Nintendo laid out its game plan for the Nintendo 3DS well into 2012 at a press conference in Tokyo today, showering us with new games and new media for its 3D handheld. Let's catch up. More »
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The Nintendo 3DS's 2012 is already looking rosy with new versions of Mario Tennis, Paper Mario and Animal Crossing planned for a 2012 release—at least in Japan. More »
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Katsuya Eguchi, creator of Animal Crossing and producer of the next game in that series, mostly talked to me about Wii U at E3 last week. But surely he had some news about Animal Crossing's forthcoming 3DS installment? More »
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Nintendo has a habit of being especially uptight about the press' use of imagery from E3. Nintendo sent a message along with the screenshots they distributed at the show, stating that the enclosed images were "prioritized", and that magazines and blogs like ourselves should try to use the higher rated images if you had to choose. More »
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I swore I was done with Animal Crossing. That too many same-same games and too many wasted days meant I was finished with the franchise. But this just looks so...charming. More »
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Are you ready for a radical departure from the Animal Crossing formula for the game's foray on the Nintendo 3DS? That's just not going to happen, but here's a guy dressed as Link. More »
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Gross question, right? Or perhaps just...stupid? Perhaps, but this is video games and this is the internet, meaning that more than one person has thought about having sex with an Animal Crossing character, and those people have got together. More »
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Say what you like about Charlie Sheen, he so completely owns the story of his downfall, it can't even be considered a downfall. Anything mocking him comes off as an admiring meme. This Animal Crossing mashup is but the latest. More »
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One of the most charming highlights to last night's Nintendo World event showcasing the 3DS wasn't the device or the demonstrations of its game, but the wonderful live performance of many iconic themes in Nintendo games. More »
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Japan's Club Nintendo members do really get the coolest stuff. Takes these Animal Crossing cards, for example. More »
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Aki Toyosaki is a voice actress and a pop singer, perhaps best known for schoolgirl rocker anime K-On! She's a gamer, too, and she's got discerning taste. More »
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The Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo's 3D-glasses-free portable, isn't out yet. Nintendo has only said it will be out before next April. Yet, Japanese people are excited to play games on it. But which games? More »
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Live in Japan? Member of Club Nintendo? Then this post is for you. More »
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I'm not sure whether this is an upcoming game or a technical demo, but...actually, it's Animal Crossing, of course this will eventually show up on the Nintendo 3DS. More »
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To say Nintendo lags behind Microsoft and Sony when it comes to online gaming is an understatement. Want to know why? It's because the Japanese company's priorities lie with entertaining everyone. More »
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For those saying "bwah", see here and here. More »
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To mark its 30th anniversary, Japanese tissue brand Elleair is collaborating with Nintendo's Animal Crossing. Nothing says tissues quite like Animal Crossing. More »
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It's a double dose of big-headed, gibberish-talking animals this week in the Nintendo Download, as two Animal Crossing applications add functionality to the DSi. More »
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So, GameCube classic Pikmin is beign re-released on the Wii. For older, pre-Wii Nintendo fans who probably already played it, it'll be a tough sell. So Nintendo figure Pikmin-themed DLC for Animal Crossing might help. More »
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We're calling it: Animal Crossing: Wild World is a hit with the Japanese. A pretty bold claim, we know, but with five million copies under its belt in Japan alone, we're feeling pretty confident. More »
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We just received this circular from Target showing off a baker's half dozen deals on games. More »
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Resetti may be just about the best thing about Animal Crossing. His furious tirades are, after all, both entertaining and informative. More »
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Does this week's Animal Crossing: Wild World controversy illustrate weaknesses with the ESRB's content ratings, particularly in games that can display potentially offensive user generated content? Not according to the ESRB. More »
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Earlier we reported on a copy of Animal Crossing: Wild World that was shipped to game journalists with a racial epithet programmed in the speech patterns of one of the game's NPCs. Now Nintendo responds. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5101547&view=rss&microfeed=true Have you seen the Wii Speak microphone in action? I haven't. So let's watch, as this sweet, innocent Japanese teenager "meets up" with a friend in Animal Crossing and "does stuff". Can't understand much, but it's clear they both recognise a lobster when they see one, one of them is very insistent they eat chicken for dinner, and they both find the whole experience overwhelmingly cute. If there were a hell for Xbox Live users, surely this would be it. More »
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Here's a few new screens for Animal Crossing Wii. I like Animal Crossing as much as the next guy who likes Animal Crossing, but really, Nintendo, you could have tried a little harder. More »
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According to reports from the recent GameStop managers conference in Las Vegas, Nintendo is planning on shipping a version of Animal Crossing: City Folk with the WiiSpeak microphone packed in. Can't say it comes as a surprise, but the marketing materials we'd seen to this point had all touted the accessory as being sold separately, so we welcome news of the pack-in. More »
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If Nintendo reveals the Wii iteration of Animal Crossing, we shan't use a single exclamation point in our liveblog upon the announcement. We already know that Nintendo of Japan has tentatively dated the game for a 2008 release at home and just assume that Nintendo of America will follow suit. According to the UK's Official Nintendo Magazine, it sounds like the announcement has already happened. More »
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While nothing's been confirmed, chances are pretty good that Nintendo will announce Animal Crossing Wii. Hey, it may not! We don't know, but like we said, chances are good. In the latest issue of the UK's official Official Nintendo Magazine, there's an image of Animal Crossing for the magazine's E3 promotion. A caption reads: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5021683&view=rss&microfeed=true Poor Tom Nook. He does the right thing, sets this kid up with a house, a job, and what does he get in return? Nothing. Tom Nook is owed something in return, and is it fair that Tom Nook asks where that something is? Yes. It's totally fair. As totally fair as this is totally not suitable for work. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5021302&view=rss&microfeed=true WARNING: Some will try and tell you this is just every K.K. Slider song played on top of each other. They are lying. What's happening here is damaging to eyes, ears and souls alike, and also most likely totally NSFW. Unless you want a portal to the 7th level of Hades to tear itself open beneath your office's floorboards, dragging all and sundry to the fiery, eternal depths below. In that case, knock yourself out. More »
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Dogs are great — especially dogs with huge fake eyebrows that make them looks like video game characters. Somebody get this mutt a guitar! We have songs we'd love to request. More »
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There's little that can be added to this touching web comic, courtesy of del.icio.us, that tells the story of a mother and son's shared experiences in Animal Crossing, so we won't add much. It's something that simply must be read without "spoilers." Suffice it to say, it warrants reading in its original web comic form—seemingly translated from its Korean language origins—or viewing at its YTMND alternate home. We've mirrored the file below. More »
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Kotakuite Presto117 sends in this picture of an Animal Crossing charm he/she got from a gashapon machine found in an "Asian buffet" named appropriately Asian Buffet. Animal Crossing aficionados will recognize the six character styles available: More »
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The ever lovin' Faith over at Destructoid has posted a great list of what she considers to be fourteen of gaming's guilty pleasures. It's quite a list and populated, as one might expect, with a lot of cutesy poo games like Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon and the Pokemon Series. Reading over the list, I was mortified that I play almost half the games on it. That is a lot of guilty gaming for one person, although I tend not care so much what people think of my game choices. I mean come on, I have a pink DS with Mario stickers on it. Does it sound like I care? More »
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Just in time for Earth Day, which is today (living in Taipei, where a layer of suspicious-looking black gunk coats every exposed surface on my roof, I didn't even notice), Game Daily brings us a list of the top 10 planet friendly games. A couple of my pet favorites are on here: Katamari, Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon (I'm not sure farming has ever looked so fun and environmentally friendly as it does on my DS) all make the list, along with some unexpected choices like Grand Theft Auto. More »
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That's right, some of us are still playing Animal Crossing on the DS (Still?! Why?! Because my town is perfect and it's easier than re-arranging the imaginary furniture on that is making its slow-ass way to Amsterdam), so this hack is right for me and my fellow crossers alley. All you need it some tools left over from the last tenant of your apartment, and voila, it's cheating animals a-go-go. Breaking the thing just might be the result I get, but the instructions are pretty thorough and with pictures. That means it's pretty to look at. Kim Phu More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=252931&view=rss&microfeed=true Dust off that box covered with Animal Crossing stickers, it's time to remember at the top ten games you loved (in my case) a year ago. But for all of you out there in Kotaku-land who already sold your box to buy something newer and shinier, this should make you reconsider picking one up at the next garage sale you crash. More »
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