The Nintendo DS was undoubtably the blueprint for girls getting into gaming. When the original console launched in 2005, it ...

This genre is growing increasingly more popular by the year, with huge titles like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing reaching dizzying heights ... rural town in hopes of getting some inspiration for ...

In 2024, Boss Fight Books released a book on Animal Crossing, written by game historian Kelsey Lewin, exploring how this all began. Below, as part of Polygon’s Culture Shock special issue ...

WhatsApp is adding new features, including creating new stickers from selfies, sharing sticker packs, and adding new camera effects. Stickers and camera effects are good engagement ploys to keep ...

An upcoming PlayStation game called Anime Life Sim recently garnered attention for looking like a blatant Animal Crossing clone. The game seems to rip off the latest entry in Nintendo's series ...

What are three popular tropes that romance novels use? Jennifer Harlan, a New York Times books editor, recommends three romance novels that show off those tropes at their best. An author of books ...

Aside from the Wii U, there's been a new mainline Animal Crossing game on every Nintendo console since the GameCube's release in 2001. It stands to reason, then, that the newly announced Nintendo ...

Nintendo is collaborating with Sea Life UK to tour an interactive, live Animal Crossing: New Horizons experience. The event will allow guests to "discover incredible marine life alongside some of ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our recommended books this week tilt heavily toward European culture and history, with a new history of the Vikings, a group ...

Idea Factory International announced on Monday that it will release the motorcycle action game Neptunia Riders VS Dogoos for PC via Steam in 2025. The company streamed an announcement trailer: The ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...