Animal Crossing: New Horizons is finally getting a Switch 2 upgrade. But that's not the best part of this update
Given Animal Crossing: New Horizons' popularity at launch, it's shocking the Switch 2 edition took this long. Thankfully, Switch 1 owners still get new content.
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Matt Buckley
October 30, 2025
Pokémon meets Animal Crossing: Pokémon Pokopia is the strange new game revealed in today's Nintendo Direct
Play as a Ditto that transforms into a human in Pokémon Pokopia, an unusual new game from The Pokémon Company that bears a resemblance to Animal Crossing.
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Matt Buckley
September 12, 2025
Animal Crossing for dinosaur nerds: Goodlands demo on Steam now
Don't miss one of Steam Next Fest's hidden gems: Goodlands. Create a cute dinosaur character and search for fossils in a badlands-inspired open world.
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Matt Buckley
February 28, 2025
This game it not just an Animal Crossing rip off. Someone really dug into it and found out it's totally bonkers
The upcoming PlayStation Store game looks very similar to Nintendo’s Animal Crossing New Horizons, leading many to suspect AI involvement. Prepare to be surprised.
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Olga Racinowska
January 15, 2025
Nintendo Boasts of Millions of Games Sold in 2020
Nintendo ended the 2020 fiscal year on a considerable positive note. By March 2021, the Japanese giant had sold 28 million Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite consoles. Leading the sales, in terms of games, was the latest installment of Animal Crossing.
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Michal Ciezadlik
May 7, 2021
What We Want in Animal Crossing: New Horizons Anniversary Update
April 14th marks the 20th anniversary of the Animal Crossing series. With so many other video game anniversaries being celebrated with releases of old games and announcements of new ones, what could Nintendo have in store for Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
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Matt Buckley
April 14, 2021
Free Festivale Update Comes to Animal Crossing
The actual day of Festivale won’t be until February 15th, but a free update to Animal Crossing: New Horizons drops on Janurary 28th. Look for Pave the dancing peacock in the plaza! .
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Matt Buckley
January 27, 2021
Player Turns Island in Animal Crossing Into IKEA Store
Reddit user known as skidmore101 redesigned an island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons to look like a giant IKEA store.
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Bart Swiatek
January 25, 2021
IKEA Releases Furniture Catalogue Inspired by Animal Crossing: New Horizons
IKEA Taiwan has created a furniture catalogue using images from Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The publication is complementary in nature - it contains images reproducing arrangements from the main catalogue in the game.
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Bart Swiatek
August 21, 2020
Nintendo's Rakes in Huge Profits; Switch Sales Exceeded 60 Million
Nintendo has published its financial report for the period from April 1 to June 30. The sales of the Nintendo Switch console exceeded 60 million units, and Animal Crossing: New Horizon has reached over 20 million buyers. Thanks to this and excellent digital sales, the company recorded more than fivefold increase in operating profit.
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Jacob Blazewicz
August 6, 2020
Call of Duty Beaten - New Digital Sales Record for Consoles
The SuperData analytics group published a report on global digital distribution in March. Last month turned out to be exceptionally good for the market, with great results of Doom Eternal, Half-Life: Alyx and Animal Crossing. The latter production broke the first month's digital sales record for console titles, set by Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII.
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Jacob Blazewicz
April 23, 2020