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 ...

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 ...

Although the campaign is a major element in Borderlands 4, the game follows the series tradition of offering a challenging endgame experience with its Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode. Completing the main ...

From the moment the Nintendo Switch 2 was confirmed, Animal Crossing fans have been waiting for a new game to be announced. When it didn’t come during the first Switch 2 Direct, hopes shifted to the ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Nintendo's original Animal Crossing on GameCube helped pave the way for many of the cozy games players have today. The cute animal villagers largely ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

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, ...

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, ...

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Animal Crossing is seemingly dormant for now, with no concrete news of a New Horizons successor in sight. The recent September 2025 Nintendo Direct could have been the venue to reveal this next ...

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 ...