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Tag: Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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To Be a Bird on an Island

By Taylor Hidalgo • September 23rd, 2022

During unsteady times, it’s easy to get caught up in the sadness of uncertainty. Thankfully, there are little animals tromping around an island to remind us that it doesn’t have to be that way.

Assigned, (De)limited Desire
Label, fashionable hedgehog with sunglasses perched and a clipboard in her claws, stands and admires Trevor's animal crossing character as they're wearing a witch hat, duck mouth, and black dress and taking a selfie

The Dodo Wears Labelle

By Trevor Richardson • August 25th, 2022

Label has her would-be muses dress up to spur her inspiration, but what materially occurs is a transaction of influence.

Nonhuman Meditations

A Dog and Her Friend and the Lockdown in Between

By Alyssa Wejebe • August 11th, 2022

Alyssa imagines Isabelle’s friendship with Doomguy while remembering the first year of lockdown.

Here's the Thing
A screenshot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons shows a cutaway view of a small house on a beach. The interior of the house is decorated in bright colors and several animals are gathered inside and out.

Nintendo Has No Idea What It’s Doing

By Rob Rich • January 13th, 2022

Rob thinks Nintendo still has no idea what it’s doing when it comes to online services and functionality.

The Best Games of 2020

By Team Unwinnable • December 31st, 2020

This year has put on one hell of a spectacular shit show. But at the same time, games have proven to be the one salve we need to tide us over through 2020.

The Heavy Pour

Buddies

By Sara Clemens • August 12th, 2020

Social distancing can be lonely. Animal Crossing makes it a little less so.

Here's the Thing

Three Quick Ones

By Rob Rich • July 14th, 2020

Rob dives into how two series took a step forward in their decades-spanning gameplay formula this year, albeit to varying success.

Bloodlines

The Long, Slow Process of Animal Crossing

By David Shimomura • June 22nd, 2020

Plodding on and on.

Another Look

Resource Extraction

By Yussef Cole • May 4th, 2020

Why not have a game that recognizes that in order to have that perfect garden world, that communal utopia, you must endlessly fight and sacrifice for it?

Animal Crossing and Queer Agency

By Jeremy Signor • April 2nd, 2020

Animal Crossing gives queer folks the kind of agency they may not have in the real world.

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