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Nintendo explains why Animal Crossing is not a fit for smartphones

By Steve Watts, Mar 31, 2014 3:00pm PDT

Animal Crossing is best-suited for portable systems, but the series producer says it's more complex than people realize and therefore wouldn't be a good fit on smartphones.

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Animal Crossing on Wii too formulaic, says Nintendo

By Steve Watts, Mar 21, 2014 8:45am PDT

Animal Crossing: City Folk, the Wii version of the game that followed the hit DS version, was too much like prior games, and helped encourage the company to try more new ideas in New Leaf.

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"I guess you don't play a lot of Nintendo games to be making that statement."

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Animal Crossing: New Leaf has sold 7 million

By Steve Watts, Mar 20, 2014 9:00am PDT

Animal Crossing: New Leaf has now crossed 7 million copies sold worldwide, more than a year after its initial Japanese release.

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"That's a a whole lot of sold games. Never really played an Animal Crossing game, but I keep ..."

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Animal Crossing Plaza for Wii U announced, out now

By Andrew Yoon, Aug 07, 2013 8:15am PDT

Animal Crossing is on Wii U! Well, sort of. Nintendo has announced Animal Crossing Plaza for Wii U, which is available to download off the eShop right now.

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Animal Crossing: New Leaf review: owing a debt

By Steve Watts, Jun 04, 2013 10:00am PDT

Animal Crossing: New Leaf attempts to mix up the formula by giving you mayoral power over your bustling town. Does it liven up the life simulator series? Our review.

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"So... I should be glad I skipped the Wii version so as to make this feel more fresh. Gotcha."

- RaptorII see all 23 comments

Animal Crossing's Mr. Resetti made optional because he made players cry

By Steve Watts, Apr 12, 2013 2:30pm PDT

The development team of Animal Crossing: New Leaf talks about why they revised the game to make Mr. Resetti optional and reduce Tom Nook's role.

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"That's pretty funny. He was annoying, though. I'm going to be enabling him for old times sake, ..."

- MetaSaval see all 7 comments

Animal Crossing: New Leaf coming June 9

By Steve Watts, Feb 14, 2013 6:55am PST

Animal Crossing: New Leaf is coming June 9, Nintendo announced during its Nintendo Direct presentation today.

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Animal Crossing: New Leaf finally gets a US trailer

By Andrew Yoon, Oct 25, 2012 1:00pm PDT

Fishing! Catching butterflies! Moving furniture! Picking flowers! Animal Crossing: New Leaf for 3DS brings back the relaxing activities franchise fans have come to expect.

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"My favorite past-time is completely messing up trying to catch bugs, how did they know?"

- PlayfulPuppy see all 2 comments

Animal Crossing coming to 3DS in early 2013

By Andrew Yoon, Aug 29, 2012 3:30pm PDT

Nintendo's beloved living-in-debt simulator is coming back in "early 2013," the publisher has announced.

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"the problem with both of those games was that there was nothing to do. play it for 2-3 hours ..."

- dantastic see all 8 comments

Animal Crossing 3DS: customize town as the mayor

By Alice O'Connor, Dec 05, 2011 1:00pm PST

While Animal Crossing games traditionally cast the player as little more than a wandering vagrant, beachcombing and shaking trees for money, Animal Crossing for 3DS will cast you as mayor--and you'll get to make a few changes around town.

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"I skipped the last one or two but I'll probably end up picking this one up :("

- one random winner see all 6 comments