GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Localizing video games can be challenging, and in the case of Animal Crossing, bringing the distinctly Japanese social-sim to the West in 2002 proved ...

Years before Animal Crossing became a global success, Nintendo warned its localisation team how "difficult" it would be to make the game work outside of its native Japan. Speaking to Time Extension, ...

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Adventure Games As cult classic GameCube release Chibi-Robo finally makes its way to Switch 2, co-director says he made the platformer "while imagining a 'Zelda but without the battles'" Pokemon ...

We didn’t get an Animal Crossing announcement in today’s Nintendo Direct, but we might have gotten something even better. Pokémon Pokopia essentially looks like Animal Crossing with a Pokémon skin, ...

Late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata laughed at the prospect of localising the original Animal Crossing, as he believed the game was so specific to Japan it would be too difficult. In an interview ...

A television show about a fictional hockey team set in a real northern Ontario city has inspired an American fan to build an online version of Sudbury. Shoresy follows the Sudbury Bulldogs who play in ...

A little tweet drew my attention to the sidewalk — that's where I spotted him. On the ground in Wedgewood Houston, a tiny bird fought an army of enclosing fire ants, wildly kicking and flailing. I ...

The thing about wild animals is that they're, well, wild. When reading that obvious statement, it's not unlikely that a fierce and toothy big cat comes to mind. Or maybe it's a bear or a wolf. But ...

People have been vowing to "buy them all" as Primark releases another new range that appeals to gamers. The newest collection features another game that has had fans living their best and simplest ...

Tim is an Australian Senior Editor based in Germany who has been passionate about video games since he first picked up a PlayStation 1 controller to play Crash Bandicoot as a kid. He started out with ...

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