Animal Crossing stays top for lockdown games Feb 2021

GFK UK games chart week ending 06/02/2021

1 ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS
2 MARIO KART 8 DELUXE
3 CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR
4 RING FIT ADVENTURE
5 MINECRAFT
6 GRAND THEFT AUTO V
7 JUST DANCE 2021
8 FIFA 21
9 SUPER MARIO 3D ALL-STARS
10 ASSASSIN'S CREED VALHALLA

Animal Crossing top UK game chart beating of Doom and gloom...

GFK ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE CHARTS All formats
Week ending 21 March 2020

1 ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS NINTENDO -
2 DOOM ETERNAL BETHESDA SOFTWORKS -
3 CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE ACTIVISION 4
4 FIFA 20 EA SPORTS 5
5 MARIO KART 8 DELUXE NINTENDO 2
6 GRAND THEFT AUTO V ROCKSTAR 6
7 CRASH BANDICOOT N.SANE TRILOGY ACTIVISION 12
8 FORZA HORIZON 4 MICROSOFT 25
9 CRASH TEAM RACING NITRO-FUELED ACTIVISION 24
10 RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 ROCKSTAR 14

Animal Crossing Direct New Leaf the live update announcement

STARTS AT 20:14

Amiibo update and how to use them for New Nintendo 3DS or New Nintendo 3DS XL

Part one

1 - Get your system ready
2 - Get your amiibo ready
3 - tap your amiibo on your system
4 - Done

How to use amiibo

Part two for Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL or Nintendo 2DS

1 - Have your system ready
2 - Have your Nintendo 3DS NFC Reader/Writer ready
3 - Power on your Nintendo 3DS NFC Reader/Writer
4 - Place your NFC reader next to your system
5 - Tap an amiibo on the RFC device
6 - Done

The amiibo cards and what they can do...

Animal Crossing: New Leaf 3DS special announcement tomorrow - link

Tomorrow at 2pm GMT (Nov 2nd) Nintendo will be announcing updates to Animal Crossing: New Leaf on the 3DS in a dedicated Nintendo Direct broadcast.

The stream can be found here - http://nintendo.co.uk/nintendodirect

Next Wave of Animal Crossing Amiibos with Lucas for pre order

More Animal Crossing amiibos are going on sale...

Lucas, Kicks, Resetti, Celeste and Blathers will be released on 29th January 2016 and all are available for pre-order.

The price on the Nintendo official store is £10.99 - here

Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival Nintendo UK packs released

Animal Crossing amiibo Festival box sets are now available on Nintendo's Official UK site.

The amiibo packs contain different Animal Crossing characters...

New 3DS comes to America Non XL version launch with Animal Crossing - 3DS

The New 3DS will arrive on September 25 2015 with a digital copy of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer plus 2 faceplates to change the look of the system also includes an amiibo card. The whole lot will cost you $220.

New 3DS comes to America with Animal Crossing

This New 3DS was launched in Japan last October 2014 along with the New 3DS XL. The New 3DS XL arrived in America this February. The New 3DS will be the first American release of the smaller version of the hardware. The most obvious difference in the handheld (apart from the size) is that the non-XL offers changeable faceplates it also has received praise for sharper visuals and sturdier build quality.

Animal Crossing New Leaf hints tips and cheats... - 3DS

How to Duplicate Anything

The Duplication Glitch is both a powerful and dangerous tool. If done properly, you can duplicate any item in the game. If done wrong, the item could be deleted forever. For a more safe approach to getting as many Bells as possible, look into Beetle hunting or even time travel.
The first thing you have to do is go to a friend's town with the item you want duplicated. It appears that you can either be connected locally or through the Internet, both work.

Special Edition Animal Crossing: New Leaf Nintendo 3DS XL console

Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the game that’s already taken Japan by storm, selling more than 4 million copies in just over 6 months, launches in Europe for the Nintendo 3DS family of consoles. At the same time, the new Nintendo 3DS Image Share service becomes available in Europe, allowing players to easily share images from their game to Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.

New Nintendo Games - Animal Crossing New Leaf Limited Edition Console Bundle - 3DS

The charming community-building franchise returns for the Nintendo 3DS. This version includes a number of options new to Animal Crossing, including the ability to become the head of the village and boost its development, a way to install certain items in the village to make its characteristics more personalized for each player, and the ability to view homes of other players who are tagged through StreetPass connections.

Little Mac boxing helmet hits Animal Crossing: City Folk as download

I think this may only be available in Europe as of right now.

If you’ve been playing, get ready to receive a letter with a gift, just like the one below!“I’m preparing my return and i need you help! Wear my helmet proudly and do your best on the ring! - Little Mac”

Gamecube Cheat Codes - Animal Crossing

Constant New Year's

To get easy money, all you have to do is set the GameCube's internal clock to New Year's Day. Every New Year, your parents will send you a gift of 10,000 bells. Set the clock to a different year (after saving, of course) and you will get another bag with 10,000 bells.

Bee Courageous

You've done it before -- you've shaken a couple of trees to find some cash, and out comes a whole swarm of bees and does a "remodeling" job on your face... Painful. But did you know that you can actually catch the bees and make some money? It's a bit tricky as the bees move fast, but after you've shaken a tree and a bee's hive has fallen out, immediately switch to the butterfly net and turn towards the hive. Time it right and hit the button and you will catch a single bee, worth 4,500 bucks. Not bad, huh? There are three swarms of bees hidden on the map every day, so you can make some big bucks if you go bee hunting.

Feng-Shui Mysteries

Are you familiar with the ancient art of Feng-Shui? Who would have guessed that it even applies to Nintendo's Animal Crossing? It's all about how you arrange your furniture in your house.

Orange colored furniture in the North
Yellow furniture in the West
Red furniture in the East
Green furniture in the South
What does this do? It increases your chances with getting lots of cash and items -- so try to use Feng-Shui whenever possible.

Get Rich Quick with your GBA

If you've got a GBA and the GameCube Link Cable, you can access an island to the south of Animal Crossing that lets you make money much more quickly. Collect as many pieces of fruit as you can carry, hook up your GBA, turn it on, and then go to the pier at the beach (all the way in the south). A lad named Kapp'n will be waiting here in his boat (he only shows up if your GBA is switched on) and take you to the island. Once you're on the island, drop all the fruit you have collected and go back to the boat. Tell Kapp'n that you want to leave and that you want to transfer the island to your GBA. Your GBA will turn on and you will have see your island, complete with all the fruit you have dropped. Move your hand to the door of your island animal's house and knock. Your animal will come out. Now grab a piece of fruit and put it right in front of your animal. It will eat the fruit and turn happy. After a few pieces of fruit your animal will drop a money bag of random size for each fruit you feed to your little virtual pet. Repeat this process until all pieces of fruit are gone (you can also direct your pet to shake trees to get more fruit), then put your GBA to sleep. Do NOT switch it off.
Go back to the GameCube game. Once back in your town, leave the screen with the boat and come back. Talk to the Kapp'n again and the GCN game will be updated with the new data from the GBA island. Travel back to the island and collect all the money bags. Some bags contain as much as 30,000 coins! You should be able to pay off your house in no time now.

Grow a Money Tree

Did you know that besides growing fruit trees, you can also grow money trees? Yep, no joke. However, you can't just grow them anywhere. Find a sparkly glowing spot on the ground (the type that hints at a hidden treasure) and use the shovel to unearth the money bag. Instead of just pocketing the money and closing the hole, stand in front of it, go into your inventory and select the money bag. Now choose the "plant item in ground" option that you also use to sow seeds or fruit and put the bag back into the sparkly spot in the ground. A seedling will sprout, which will grow into a money-bearing tree. Nice, huh?
Note that planting a money bag just anywhere will not produce a money tree. It has to be planted in the sparkly special spot.

Reset Follies

Don't ever hit the reset switch when playing this game. If you do, the next time you play you will be chastized by Mr. Resetti, an angry mole. He will lecture you on how there is no reset button in real life -- so you shouldn't use it in this game either. Mr. Reset's rant takes quite a while to get through, but that's nothing compared to what happens when you hit reset again... His complaints will get longer and longer and he will even force you to apologize (which requires you to manually enter your apology via the on-screen keyboard). Not fun. So stay away from the reset switch unless you want a good laugh.

Win NES Games

Animal Crossing features an even bigger variety of NES games than its N64 counterpart. You have to be lucky to get your hands on them though. There are several ways to get new games:

Be the first. The first player to start a character on the included Animal Crossing Memory Card will receive a letter from Nintendo after all initial chores are done. The letter includes a grab bag with three items, two of which are NES games. To move a present attached to a letter to your inventory, align your cursor on top of the letter, then press L to grab it. Drag it to the inventory, then click on it with A and select "Open Present". To open the grab bag that's inside, simply select it with A when you're OUTSIDE a building. Do not try to open bags inside your house. It won't work.
Enter the monthly lottery at the Tanuki Store on the last day of the month. You get a lottery ticket for every major purchase you make at the store (stationary and plants don't count). Every five tickets let you play in the lottery once, so be sure to collect a bunch of them. Note that lottery tickets don't carry over to the next month. They're only good for the current month. Prizes in the lottery vary from month to month, so don't give up if you don't find any NES games the first time you enter the lottery.
Check your mailbox on Christmas Eve. Every player gets an NES game as a Christmas present.
Get a game for your birthday. Don't only ask animals if you can run chores for them -- use the second "conversation" option as well. At one point, one of your animals will ask you for your birthday and blood type. This animal will drop by your house on your birthday and personally deliver a new NES game.
Have your Animal Island villager dig. Leave him your shovel, then bribe him with fruit later if he finds a game.
There are other ways to get your hands on emulated classics, so keep your eyes and ears open.

Golden Axe

Check the Wishing Well every day for 15 days and get a consistently great rating. To do this, you'll have to have the right mix of trees in each acre, pull out weeds, avoid littering, and have plenty of flowers. If you pull this off, visit the Wishing Well to meet the lucky spirit Farley, who will hand over the Golden Axe that never breaks.

Golden Fishing Rod

To get an item that will make fishing so much easier, catch all 40 types of fish. Not only will you get a cool Weathervane trophy on top of your house, the mayor will give you the Golden Fishing Rod to match your shovel.

Golden Net

Catch all 40 types of insects to get your hands on the Golden Net, a better version of the regular net that'll help you catch more insects easier. You will also get a Butterfly sign on your house that shows off your bug catching skills.

Golden Shovel

You can produce a Golden Shovel the same way you plant a money tree. Buy an extra shovel, find a sparkle spot, dig out the money bag, stand right in front of it and select the shovel. Pick "bury" and the shovel will be planted in the ground and a sapling will pop up. If the spot is good, a golden tree will grow that will produce a Golden Shovel instead of fruit. The Golden Shovel will unearth money bags at random when you dig in the ground.

Magic Rock

Every day, one rock in your village will turn into a treasure rock. Walk up to a rock and hit it with your shovel. If it turns red, quickly hit it again -- up to seven times if you're fast enough. Each time, a money bag will come flying out. The first few bags will be 100 Bell bags, but soon you'll hear the Mario extra life chime -- which means these bags contain 1,000 Bell. After the rock changes color again, it goes back to being a regular rock.

Secret K.K. Slider Songs

There are three secret songs in Animal Crossing that Totakeke won't play unless you request them. They are:

I Love You
K.K. Song
Two Days Ago

Easy Money

Dig up the stars with your shovel and send them to the far away museum, when you get a response back, get your fossil and sell it to Mr.Nook for big bucks!

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Nintendo apologise for race abuse in Animal Crossing Press Demo

It turns out it's the fault of the Internet (Isn't it always?)

From Kotaku

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.

A copy of DS title Animal Crossing Wild World sent out to media yesterday by Nintendo came loaded with most of the game's secrets unlocked, it also included a nasty surprise. When you come upon Baabara, the town's resident sheep, you're greeted with a racial epithet. The word is used repeatedly in your conversation with the sheep. Here's the official statement on the issue from Nintendo:

"Previously played copies of the 2005 Nintendo DS game Animal Crossing: Wild World were sent to 14 members of the media to demonstrate the ability of players to transfer items to the new Animal Crossing: City Folk for Nintendo Wii. We regret that an offensive phrase was included without our knowledge via a wireless function that allows user-generated catchphrases to spread virally from one game to the next. This version is limited to 14 copies created for media review purposes only and is not available at retailers. We sincerely apologize for the incident and are working with media who received the game cards to return them to Nintendo immediately."

The evil Internet strikes again.

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Best games of the year LBP, F3, AC,

With the games industry outpacing both Hollywood and Music sales in 2008 lets look at some great, and some turkey games you may want to consider or dismiss...

LittleBigPlanet on Sony PlayStation 3 - Create your own levels and share them around the world in this platform for the 21st century. The game never ends as your friends can join you and explore never ending levels of games play... Around $60 (but discounts can be found) Rated E (6+) All LittleBigPlanet gamezplay.org posts here...

Animal Crossing - City Folk on Nintendo Wii - Update of the popular GameCube game where you create your own towns and visit other towns to meet friends. Another game that allows players to customise almost everything about the game. Runs in almost real time allowing the celebration of holidays, birthdays and festivals. Around $50 Rated E (6+)

Fallout 3 on Microsoft Xbox 360 - A role-playing-game (RPG) offering a massive playing area with hours of game play. Warning: Can become addictive... Around $60 Rated M (17+)

Now the Christmas turkeys...

Chicken Shoot on Nintendo Wii - Chickens that shoot eggs at you with awful graphics and boring game play - don't bother with this chicken, sorry turkey!!!

Rig Racer 2 on Nintendo Wii Maybe trying to fool you into thinking it's RiDGE Racer but alas no. Racing big trucks can be fun but not here as you have no control at all! Save your money for Animal Crossing...

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Wii Speak comes to Europe on December 5th

Wii Speak Channel and Wii Speak accessory will connect friends and family and herald the next evolution of social gaming

Socialising and communicating with friends and family has just got easier – and more fun – as the new Wii Speak accessory and Wii Speak Channel are launched for Wii across Europe on 5 December 2008.

Wii Speak enables people to connect to and communicate with friends using the free-to-use Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection* in a way that is very socially inclusive. Wii Speak can be connected directly to the console and pick up the conversations from an entire room of people, meaning friends and families can all get involved in conversations, sharing gaming and social experiences together. It’s just like using a phone to make a call and chat with other Wii-friends: but with Wii Speak, everyone in the room can get involved in the conversation.

The new Wii Speak Channel, accessed from the Wii’s main menu, allows up to four console users – who can be anywhere in the world – to connect together to chat, or to share pictures and text messages at no extra cost. Once connected, the Wii Speak Channel brings user’s Miis to life: as users’ Miis represent them on-screen during their conversations. When players are talking to each other, their Miis also ‘talk’ to match the sound that is being picked up by the Wii Speak accessory.

Users have to share their private Friend Codes to be able to communicate with each other, which makes the experience safe and fun.

As well as enabling people to connect together through the Wii Speak Channel, Wii Speak also opens up a new world of social gameplay. The first game to use the full capabilities of Wii Speak is Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City, in which players can create and share their personalised worlds.

For the first time, friends can chat in the game and, as the action happens in real time and creates a world in which players celebrate real festivals and events, sharing the gaming experience over the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection on Christmas Day will be a uniquely magical experience, with characters and other players in the game all joining in the festive fun! Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City and the Wii Speak microphone will be offered as a bundle at launch, making a perfect gift for friends and family this Christmas.

In the future, Wii Speak will be incorporated into other Wii games, meaning that new opportunities can be created for social gameplay amongst the console’s fans.

Enjoy a whole new use for your Wii with Wii Speak and enjoy the chance to create – and talk about – the perfect world that you create in Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City on 5th December 2008, when they launch across Europe both as a bundle and sold separately.

• there are no fees or subscriptions to pay (Usual broadband line rental and Internet Service Provider costs apply when accessing the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection at home)

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Animal Crossing - Let's go to the city out for Nintendo Wii in December - screenshots

Animal Crossing - Let's go to the city out for Nintendo Wii in December

Pack your bags and take a trip to the city as Animal Crossing comes to Wii! In a new installment to the hugely popular series, Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City not only allows players to create their own perfect life in the country, but also introduces an exciting new city area to explore! With many new features such as the new Nintendo Wii Speak accessory which enables you to chat to other players in the game, pack up your fishing rod and get ready to create your ideal Animal Crossing world as Animal Crossing: Lets Go to the City launches across Europe in December 2008.

The new city environment introduces a thrilling new area with exciting shops and entertainment opportunities to experience. Simply jump on the bus from your town and take a trip to visit the theatre to watch a show or even visit Gracie Grace, the large and exclusive department store that sells special items and furniture to customise your home. You can even customise your own character at the hair salon with your favourite Mii from your Nintendo Wii console and compete with other players selling and bidding for items at the auction house.








Animal Crossing: Lets Go to the City is a fun and engaging life simulation, where you can take control and shape the world around you from decorating your house to creating constellations in the heavens. Start the game in your own quiet town and meet many enriching animal characters along the way as you collect new furniture, wallpaper and carpets to make your house a home. Alternatively, simply while away the hours with a spot of fishing or gardening - there are no pressures in the world of Animal Crossing, you can live the life you wish to lead.

For players who have already enjoyed creating their own character in Animal Crossing: Wild World on the Nintendo DS, this new title will allow the transfer of some character data to Nintendo Wii. The Nintendo DS can also be used as a ‘suitcase’ allowing players to take their character to and from a friend’s Nintendo Wii console to explore their Animal Crossing world.

Adding to the fun, Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City operates in real time, which means if twenty-four hours has passed in the real world, the same amount of time will also have passed in your town. Allowing you to experience seasons and special days as they happen, celebrate events like Halloween, and national holidays as they happen in real life.

Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City is a title the whole family can enjoy together as it introduces a number of great ways for all to share their Animal Crossing lives with friends and family around the globe. Using the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, send friends letters and items from the post office located in each town. Why not even visit them yourself? Travel to a friend’s town to explore their unique Animal Crossing environment or invite them to visit you, regardless of where they live in the world!

For the first time on Nintendo Wii, get ready to actually chat with friends as Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City introduces the new Wii Speak accessory , which allows players to communicate with each other directly in the game. This exciting new accessory sits above the Nintendo Wii sensor bar on your television set and enables anyone in the room to speak with friends in another location. Use Wii Speak when visiting a friend’s town, or being visited, to explore, chat and enjoy Animal Crossing together via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

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Animal Crossing - City Folk on Nintendo Wii Fact Sheet

Format: Wii
Launch Date: Holiday 2008
ESRB: RP (Rating Pending)
Game Type: Community Simulation
Accessories: WiiSpeak microphone (sold separately)
Players: 1-4 alternating, 2-4 simultaneous via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
Developer: Nintendo
KEY INFORMATION

If life were an endless vacation, what would you do? Go fishing, collect shells or watch fireworks with friends? Build a snowman, exchange presents with family or decorate your house for the holidays? Take a trip to the city, go on a shopping spree or visit friends from all over the globe? In Animal Crossing: City Folk, life moves at a relaxed pace, but the world brims with endless possibilities.

• There’s always something new to do. In the living, breathing world of Animal Crossing: City Folk, days and seasons pass in real time, so there’s always something to discover. Catch fireflies in the summer, go trick-or-treating on Halloween or hunt for eggs on Bunny Day. If you’re in the mood for something a little faster paced, take a bus to a new urban city area that’s unique to Animal Crossing: City Folk. There you can catch a show at the theater or check out the sales at Gracie’s boutique. But if you don’t show your face back home for too long, your neighbors will miss you.

• Up to four people from your household can live and work together to build the perfect town. Design clothes and patterns, write letters and post messages on the bulletin board for each other, or invite up to three friends to visit your town using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. With the new WiiSpeak microphone, it’s like you’re all in the same room. The microphone sits atop the sensor bar and picks up the conversation of everyone in the room to encourage a more inclusive experience.


• Get to know your neighbors. The heart of Animal Crossing: City Folk is building relationships with the animals in your town as well as with other players. Befriend your animal neighbors by exchanging letters, gifts and favors. Animals can also move from town to town, bringing their memories and stories from their old towns with them. And since animals are notoriously loose-lipped, they spill all the juicy details.




• Express your personal style. Customize your town, your house and yourself by collecting bugs, fish, fossils, art, furniture, clothes and accessories. You can also go to the salon in the city to change your hairstyle and get a Mii™ makeover. Plus, if you design clothes in the tailor’s shop, animals will wear them and maybe even bring them to other towns.