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Link Tank: Animal Crossing Fans Will Love Cozy Grove

If you love the relaxing, escapist vibes of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you’ll love Nintendo’s new camping game Cozy Grove. “It was just over a year ago, right at the start of the global pandemic we’re all still living through, that our collective obsession with Animal Crossing: New Horizons consumed us… A year later, Cozy Grove feels like the natural spiritual successor to ACNH, based on where we are now vs. where we all were then.” Read more at The Mary Sue. NBC’s streaming service Peacock has reportedly acquired the broadcast rights for the Eurovision semifinals and finals. “For the first 60…
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20 Best Animal Crossing Villagers Ever

The legendary Animal Crossing franchise is deserving of its iconic status for many reasons, but it’s hard to deny that part of the series’ longevity can be traced back to the memorable personalities of its villagers. In a franchise seemingly devoid of many traditional gameplay hooks, the thrill of inviting that one villager you’ve been looking for to your Animal Crossing home regularly ranks high among the best moments in gaming. Anyone who has spent any time with these games will waste no time telling you about their favorite villagers and the way they’ll always remember the time they spent…
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Animal Crossing Anniversary Update: Release Date, New Items, and More

Nintendo is celebrating Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ 1st anniversary with a very special update that adds celebratory items and few new features to the game. It’s hard to believe that it’s almost been a year since Animal Crossing: New Horizons came into our lives and became a social phenomenon. While we’re a little removed from that time when it felt like everyone was playing and talking about New Horizons, millions are just waiting for an excuse to get lost in the game yet again. Will they find that excuse in this upcoming update? Well, it’s certainly not the most extensive…
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Animal Crossing New Horizons: How to Unlock the Sanrio Amiibo Card Villagers and Items

Hot on the heels of the recent Super Mario Bros. update, Nintendo has revealed that you’ll soon be able to invite six new villagers from popular Sanrio properties to your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. If this all sounds a little familiar, that’s likely because Animal Crossing: New Leaf featured a similar promotion that allowed you to add various Sanrio characters to your village. However, it was incredibly difficult to find the cards required to unlock the villagers in that game, which means that many players (especially those in the U.S. where the cards were not previously released) never got…
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Animal Crossing New Horizons: How to Get Every Mario Item in the New Update

Animal Crossing‘s long-awaited 1.8.0 update is finally here. More importantly, a collection of new Super Mario-themed items is finally here, which means that we’re this much closer to one day being able to turn our islands into the ultimate museum for everything Nintendo. Well…kind of. It turns out that Nintendo decided to release the base update for the game ahead of the debut of the Super Mario items. While that’s kind of a bummer, it does mean that you have a little more time to earn those extra bells, clear some space, and figure out where you’re going to put…
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Animal Crossing’s Turnip Market Tried to Warn Us About the GameStop Stock Drama

The ongoing GameStop stock situation, which we’re all learning about through a combination of reputable sources and an onslaught of memes, has captured the internet’s attention for reasons ranging from “WTF?” to “LOL.” One of the most common things you’ll hear about the whole situation is that it caught everyone by surprise. Even those closest to this story from the beginning would have a hard time honestly telling you that they ever thought a group of investors on Reddit who trade stocks as often as memes would have been able to predict that GameStop, one of the worst companies in…
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Barbarians and Animal Symbolism: What Did Wolves Mean in the Ancient World?

If you’ve seen the Netflix series Barbarians, you can’t have missed the many, many references to wolves on both sides of the central battle. The first episode is titled ‘Wolf and Eagle’, the three Germanic leads each wear a wolf’s tooth around their neck, their tribe tells stories about a wolf that will come to devour the world, while Roman characters tell their own myths about children suckled by a wolf, and wolves prowl the surrounding forests. Were the ancient Germanic tribes and the ancient Romans really that into wolves? Well, yes, though they meant something quite different to the…
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Animal Kingdom: Disney+ Takes Viewers Behind The Scenes of The Park

Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida, has a gigantic zoo covering 580 acres called Disney’s Animal Kingdom. The Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom, a new series on Disney+, gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the adventures of caring for the over 5000 animals at the park. With over 300 species, the park hosts a small army of staff to care for the animals. Den of Geek had the opportunity to talk to a couple of those caregivers to get an idea of what viewers will see on the show and what Disney Magic brings to the zoo experience. “The…
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Animal Crossing: Joe Biden Campaign Yard Sign QR Codes Released in New Horizons

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is apparently so big with potential voters that 2020 presidential candidates want in. Starting right now, players can scan a QR code to add Joe Biden/Kamala Harris yard signs to their islands. Currently, users can download four different yard signs through the Nintendo Switch Online App. You can check out a guide to how to find QR codes for the game and download them here. The news was first reported by The Verge, who spoke to the Biden campaign about its Animal Crossing plans. “Animal Crossing is a dynamic, diverse, and powerful platform that brings communities together…
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Unreleased Animal Crossing Villager Leaked

Fans have discovered that the information related to the recent Nintendo “Gigaleak” contains information related to a never-before-seen Animal Crossing villager and other design curiosities. Those new villagers were seemingly supposed to be implemented into the N64 predecessor to Animal Crossing. For those who don’t know, the N64 version of Animal Crossing was released in Japan as Animal Forest. It’s basically the same game as Animal Crossing for GameCube with a few differences here and there. At the time, Nintendo just decided to bring Animal Crossing to their next-gen system rather than port it to the N64 so later in…
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Giveaway: Win an Animal Crossing Pin Set from Penny Arcade!

Animal Crossing: New Horizons took the world by storm when it launched to critical acclaim earlier this year and quickly earned the adoration of millions of fans. We absolutely loved this cute life simulator that lets you build a community on your very own island as well as visit your friends on their own island getaway. “For me, New Horizons is the most fully-realized, most well-rounded iteration in the franchise’s history,” our reviewer wrote about the game in March. “Beyond a few minor gripes about the controls (aiming accurately when fishing is challenging in a bad way), it’s a hard…
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