Animal Crossing
BLACKPINK Are Getting Their Own Island on Animal Crossing
BLACKPINK (Island) in you area! Today, YG Entertainment announced the K-pop idols will be getting their very own Animal Crossing island. “#BLACKPINK Island colored in pink is coming to you. Are you ready for a trip to BLACKPINK Island?” YG tweeted from its official Twitter account. The company also shared a 30-second sneak peek of what fans can expect from the exclusive location, including fields of flowers in the group’s signature color palette, coffee shops emblazoned with the BLACKPINK logo, and multiple sets showing off animated recreations of the quartet’s stage costumes. Check out YG’s teaser of BLACKPINK Island below. The collaboration with the ultra-popular Nintendo game comes as part of the girl group’s celebration of their five-year anniversary as a band. The island is set to be ...
HHW Gaming: Oxford University Study Shows Playing Social Games Like “Animal Crossing” Are “Good For Well Being”
Source: WILLIAM WEST / Getty It’s no secret, playing video games does affect your moods. But just how much? An Oxford University study has shared some interesting findings. The Oxford Internet Institute research focused on anonymized data shared by the developers of both Animal Crossing: New Horizon and EA’s Plants vs. Zombies detailing how many hours players logged in each game. The playtime logs were then linked with a survey that asked the 3,274 gamers over 18 who took part in the study about their well-being. The gamers were also asked about how they felt about their experiences playing the game. Prof Andrew Przybylski, who led the study, revealed that he was “surprised” by the results. Per BBC: “If you play Animal Crossing for four hours a day, every sing...
Gorillaz and Beck Share Performance Inside Animal Crossing
In honor of their recently released album, Gorillaz shared a new performance from inside Animal Crossing. For the virtual band’s latest outing, they recruited Beck and entered the world of the relaxing video game sensation that helped us through the early days of the pandemic. The two acts took the stage as the musical guest for Gary Whitta‘s talk show, Animal Talking, held entirely inside the game. For their adorable presentation, they chose their collaborative single “The Valley Of The Pagans.” In addition to the music, earlier in the show, Gorillaz creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett took part in an interview with Whitta and spoke about what it’s like being a part of a virtual band. The interview starts at 48:35 and the performance follows at the 1...
Gorillaz and Beck Perform “The Valley Of The Pagans” on Animal Talking: Watch
While remote performances are par for the course these days, leave it to Gorillaz to find a unique and innovative way to promote the newly released first season of their audiovisual project, Song Machine. The band appeared on the latest episode of Animal Talking, the real-life talk show hosted by Gary Whitta within the video game world of Animal Crossing. There, they delivered a performance of their Beck collaboration “The Valley Of The Pagans”. Because of the limitations of Animal Crossing, only Gorillaz’s 2D and Beck were able to appear inside the Animal Talking studio for the performance. Also, somewhat hilariously, the cartoon band received their very own cartoon avatars, which makes sense but also feels equivalent to dressing up a cat like a cat for Halloween. Prio...
The Biden-Harris Campaign Comes to Animal Crossing
The 2020 presidential campaign is unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Not only has the current White House occupant bastardized the whole idea of politics as we know it, but the ongoing pandemic has completely altered the way candidates connect with the voting public. After holding a completely virtual Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaign has doubled down on digital campaigning by making the move to Animal Crossing: New Horizons. As of today, September 1st, gamers are able to add four lawn signs to their Animal Crossing islands showing support for the Democratic ticket. There’s a standard Biden-Harris sign; a Joe Pride sign; a “Team Joe” sign; and a sign featuring Biden’s hallmark aviator sunglasses in red, white, and blue. To access the s...
Tove Lo is Spinning a DJ Set in Nintendo’s “Animal Crossing” Tomorrow
Electropop superstar star Tove Lo is taking her love of Animal Crossing: New Horizons to the next level. The Grammy Award-nominated songstress has announced a special DJ set taking place in the wildly popular Nintendo game tomorrow, July 18th. Taking to Instagram to share the news, Tove Lo invited fans to “come party like it’s pre COVID.” She will be choosing 6 players to join her on her Animal Crossing island, who can enter by designing a custom in-game outfit for their character and sharing it along with the hashtag #ToveLoAnimalCrossing. “I got hooked on this world at the start of quarantine cause… it’s cute animals and tropical islands lol,” she wrote. “So I’m very excited about the news below!!” You can check out Tove ...
Rising Star SIHK Powers Up Animal Crossing Track “Bubblegum K.K”
No stranger to video game crossovers, one of EDM’s future stars, SIHK, dropped a new remix of a track from the game the world just can’t seem to put down. The young Indonesian producer provided a happy hardcore spin to “Bubblegum K.K” from the Animal Crossing soundtrack. Using the adorable melody from the games, he mixes in an uptempo beat and goofy samples to create an energizing heater that you can’t help but tap your feet to. SIHK, like many of us around the world, has found escape from the COVID-19-induced quarantine in the latest entry in the Animal Crossing series, Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Speaking about his video game-inspired remix, SIHK told EDM.com how he’s been trying to listen to happier music as of late in an effort to raise...
