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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editorial Note: Talk Android may contain affiliate links on some articles. If you make a purchase through these links, we will earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more. We've got the ...

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, ...

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, ...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons version 1.2 update brought some new and familiar faces to players' islands. One such returning character is Redd the art dealer, often referred to as Crazy Redd or Jolly ...

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 ...

Every school day, a crossing guard’s raised stop sign or whistle can mean the difference between order and chaos on busy streets. Without them, drivers, cyclists and pedestrians must rely on their own ...

Even if you drive a ubiquitous grocery getter, chances are it has a Sport mode. And no, it's likely not the cruel joke it seems. Increasingly, new vehicles' Sport modes carry the credentials to rise ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of Game Rant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...