Animal Crossing: City Folk and WiiSpeak bundle to cost $69.99

September 8th, 2008 by BillyC

Animal Crossing: City Folk, Wii, Nintendo, WiiSpeakLast week we spotted the US boxart of Animal Crossing: City Folk on the GameFly site, and this week we have more info on the pricepoint of . During a GameStop managers conference in Las Vegas was announced that the bundle of with the accessory will be sold for $69.99.

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Animal Crossing: City Folk boxart

September 4th, 2008 by BillyC

Animal Crossing: City Folk, Wii, NintendoGameFly has updated its boxshot for . The current release date for is still November 16th. Click on the image to see the full US boxart.

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Eguchi about holidays and friends in Animal Crossing

August 30th, 2008 by BillyC

Katsuya Eguchi, Wii, Nintendo, Animal Crossing: City FolkIn a recent interview from talked about the different things in life that motivated him to create the Animal Crossing series. Family, friends, relationships and society inspired him to create the game because he felt lonely when he moved to Kyoto. His hometown, Chiba, isn’t really close to Kyoto and at moments like these he discovered the importance of family and friends in his life.

Another important feature in the new game for ’s is holiday seasons. Special days like Eastern, Halloween and Christmas will get new special events in AC:CC. At Eastern you’ll have to go out and look for eggs and there will also be a travelling circus in the game. Players can go to concerts and celebrate holidays together over WiFi Connection.

Source: Wacka

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Animal Crossing: City Folk on November 16th

July 16th, 2008 by BillyC

WiiSpeak, Wii, Nintendo, Animal Crossing: City Folk Yesterday during its E3 press conference announced Animal Crossing: City Folk for Wii. Today of America released some more information on their new -title. The game is due to come out November 16th in the US. The microphone, also announced yesterday, will cost $29.99 and will be sold separately. Buying the microphone is actually not a must to play , but it will certainly come in handy if you plan on playing online via WiFi Connection.

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Reggie: “Animal Crossing is for hardcore gamers”

July 16th, 2008 by BillyC

Animal Crossing: City Folk, Nintendo, Wii, Animal Crossing Wii

In an interview with MTV, Reggie Fils-Aime of of America says that sees both for and GTA: Chinatown Wars for the DS as hardcore titles.

“What games should the hardcore fans be playing later this year?”

Reggie quickly replied: “‘Grand Theft Auto‘ on the DS and ‘Animal Crossing‘ on the .”

MTV via GamePlanet

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Animal Crossing: City Folk officially announced at E3

July 15th, 2008 by BillyC

During its E3 2008 press conference, released the first details on its upcoming Animal Crossing game for the . The full name of the game is and it’s planned for a release this year. Just like all previous Animal Crossing games, City Folk has a few mission objectives but you’re still free to decide what you want to do in your own little village. Exploring the town will be a lot more exciting and holiday seasons will be even more fun than in the last Animal Crossing video games.

Communicating will be very important in . You can send letters to other gamers int he post office, and you can communicate with Speak. Speak is a microphone that needs to be placed on the ’s sensorbar and it allows you and everyone else in your home to communicate with other players around the world. Just like , this -game will open its gates for visitors from other villages. Last but not least there’s off course the possibility to change the looks of your character to your personal taste. In the Beauty Salon you can even give your player the mask of one of your Mii-characters. More details coming soon.

via AraGamer

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Animal Crossing Wii coming out in Japan this year

January 29th, 2008 by BillyC

Animal Crossing Wii, Nintendo, WiiIn a new financial report writes that Animal Crossing will be released in Japan in 2008. Other titles mentioned in this report are Kirby, Music and Disaster: Day of Crisis. So far we haven’t seen an official announcement of Animal Crossing yet.

via Wacka

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Katsuya Eguchi about Animal Crossing Revolution

March 25th, 2006 by BillyC

Katsuya Eguchi, Animal Crossing Revolution, Nintendo, Animal Crossing: Wild World is still an extremely popular DS-game, and thinks that a Revolution-version of the popular Animal Crossing-game would be a good idea. Animal Crossing gives the developers a few challenges. First of all they will have to find something to fit the game to the Revolution’s hardware. Second obstacle is transforming the WiFi Connection options of ACWW to the online capabilities of the . Eguchi, producer of , said the following:

“Much like the conversion from the console Animal Crossing onto DS, we are now exploring how to bring what we have developed in Wild World onto Revolution. This time it is about bringing the world we’ve set up on DS over to the console world of the Revolution.”

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