2021[]
- November 4th, 2021
The 2.0 Update for New Horizons has been released, 24 hours before official release! - November 2nd, 2021
Promotions: MxgicalJennifer has been promoted to discussions moderator, and Kalina70 has been promoted to administrator! Congratulations! - October 15th, 2021
The 2.0 Update for New Horizons has been announced, in addition to a new paid DLC called Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise! - July 29th, 2021
The 1.11.0 Update for New Horizons has been released! - June 8th, 2021
Promotion: MxgicalJennifer has been promoted to rollback/patroller! Congratulations! - May 22nd, 2021
Promotion: Maxlefkoff has been promoted to rollback/patroller! Congratulations! - April 28th, 2021
The 1.10.0 Update for New Horizons has been released! - April 14th, 2021
Happy 20th anniversary of the Animal Crossing series! - April 14th, 2021
Promotion: Crystal729 has been promoted to rollback/patroller! Congratulations! - April 2nd, 2021
Promotions: -butterfly tears, Bluestarmoonstone, and Kalina70 have been promoted to discussions moderator! Congratulations! - March 24th, 2021
Island Tour Creator is now available! - March 20th, 2021
Happy 1st anniversary of New Horizons! - March 18th, 2021
The 1.9.0 Update for New Horizons has been released! - March 11th, 2021
Promotions: Jacube and Kalina70 have been promoted to content moderator, Jacube has been promoted to discussions moderator, and Qwertyxp2000 the second and Devonl12 have been promoted to admin! Congratulations! - February 25th, 2021
Sanrio Amiibo Crossover Update has been announced for New Horizons, releasing on March 18th! Watch the trailer here! - February 17th, 2021
The Super Mario 35th Anniversary Update for New Horizons has been released, here we go! - January 28th, 2021
The Festivale Update for New Horizons has been released, viva festivale!
2020[]
- November 19th, 2020
The Winter Update for New Horizons has been released, adding events for both Turkey Day and Toy Day! - October 6th, 2020
The software that runs the wiki has been updated. There will be a number of issues with the site in the coming weeks. Furthermore, the chat has been closed after nine years. - September 30th, 2020
The Autumn Update for New Horizons is now available to download! - July 3rd, 2020
The Summer Update for New Horizons, releases today! - June 29th, 2020
Wedding Season in New Horizons ends tomorrow! If you haven't already, don't forget to visit Reese and Cyrus at Photopia! - June 25th, 2020
The Summer Update has been announced for New Horizons, releasing on July 3rd! Watch the trailer here! - June 1st, 2020
Wedding Season in New Horizons has begun! From today until June 30th, help take pictures of Reese and Cyrus' anniversary at Photopia! - May 30th, 2020
International Museum Day in New Horizons ends tomorrow! If you haven't already, don't forget to participate in Blathers' Stamp Rally! - May 18th, 2020
International Museum Day in New Horizons has begun! From today until May 31st, participate in Blathers' Stamp Rally at the Museum! - May 1st, 2020
May Day in New Horizons has begun! From today until May 7th, collect a limited-time May Day ticket to Tom Nook's maze island and meet Rover! - April 23rd, 2020
Nature Day in New Horizons has begun! Enjoy limited-time nature-themed Nook Miles+ quests until May 4th. - April 23rd, 2020
Version 1.2.0 of New Horizons is out! Leif and Redd now have a chance to visit our islands to sell gardening supplies and art. - April 21st, 2020
Version 1.2.0 of New Horizons releases this Thursday! Leif and Redd will begin visiting our islands! Watch the trailer here! - April 6th, 2020
Version 1.1.4 of New Horizons is out! This update changes the spawn rates of Bunny Day eggs. - April 3rd, 2020
Version 1.1.3 of New Horizons is out! This update fixes the balloons stop spawning glitch. - April 2nd, 2020
Version 1.1.2 of New Horizons is out! This update fixes the Tom Nook refusing to invite more villagers glitch. - April 1st, 2020
Bunny Day arrives in New Horizons until April 12th! In addition, new fish and new bugs are arriving! Check the links to make sure you know what's available this month on your island. - March 26th, 2020
A new Nintendo Direct Mini for New Horizons has been released, with information about Bunny Day and Earth Day! Watch it here! - March 26th, 2020
Version 1.1.1 of New Horizons is out! This update fixes the furniture rotation duplication glitch. - March 20th, 2020
Version 1.1.0 of New Horizons is out! Update the game to get a gift by Nintendo! - March 20th, 2020
New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch is now out worldwide! - February 20th, 2020
A new Nintendo Direct for New Horizons has been released, with 25 minutes of new information about the next games in the Animal Crossing series series! Watch it here! - January 1st, 2020
A new trailer for New Horizons has been released! Watch it here!
2019[]
- June 11th, 2019
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is coming to the Nintendo Switch on March 20th, 2020!
2018[]
- November 22nd, 2018
Happy Harvest Festival from the Animal Crossing Wiki staff, and happy one-year (and one day!) anniversary to Pocket Camp! - September 13th, 2018
A new main series Animal Crossing title has been announced for Nintendo Switch. We can't wait to see what happens! - June 14th, 2018
Today marks five years since Animal Crossing: New Leaf was released in Europe! - June 9th, 2018
Today marks five years since Animal Crossing: New Leaf was released in North America!
2017[]
- November 21st, 2017
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is available worldwide on the App Store and the Play Store! - November 20th, 2017
The release date for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has been announced for November 22nd! - November 6th, 2017
We're updating the design of the site to celebrate Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp! Please forgive us if the site looks a little messy over the next few days as we transition. - October 24th, 2017
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has been announced for mobile devices, to be released later next month! Check out our article for more information! - October 23rd, 2017
A Nintendo Direct has been announced for the Animal Crossing: Mobile App, which will be broadcast on the 24th at 11pm (ET), and on 25th at 8am (CEST)! - September 1st, 2017
We have updated our wiki to reflect the changing seasons. Autumn is beginning in the Animal Crossing series! - August 14th, 2017
Happy twelfth anniversary to our wiki! Thank you to every editor who has contributed and staff member who has served; without everyone's hard work and determination, we would not be where we are today. Here's to another extraordinary year!
2016[]
- December 2nd, 2016
Fifty new amiibo cards have been released in North America for compatibility with Welcome amiibo! - November 2nd, 2016
The Welcome amiibo update for New Leaf has been released. Help us add information regarding new content and more! - September 1st, 2016
Nintendo announced a new Animal Crossing series-themed Nintendo Direct for later this autumn. - September 1st, 2016
We've updated the wiki to match the autumn leaves. Enjoy all of the fun events that come around this time of year! - July 4th, 2016
In preparation for our August Improvement Drive, we have created a survey to find out what our readers think would be the most useful improvements to our wiki. Please help us out by completing the survey here! - July 20th, 2016
Nintendo has announced a new New Leaf update, releasing this fall, which adds amiibo support and more! - April 27th, 2016
A press release confirms the existence of an Animal Crossing mobile app! - April 14th, 2016
Nintendo has released a commemorative video to celebrate 15 years of the Animal Crossing series! - March 1st, 2016
We've updated the wiki to match the spring weather. Enjoy all of the fun events that come around this time of year! - January 1st, 2016
Happy new year! Let's keep our fingers crossed for plenty of news related to the Animal Crossing series.
2015[]
- November 21st, 2015
Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival has now been released worldwide! - September 25th, 2015
Happy Home Designer has been released in North America! - September 1st, 2015
The wiki has been updated to match the autumn season! - August 15th, 2015
Looking for ways to help out? We have a lot of work to do to prepare for the release of Happy Home Designer. Click here to see how you can help! - August 14th, 2015
The Animal Crossing Wiki is ten years old today! Happy birthday to the biggest Animal Crossing encyclopedia on the net! - July 30th, 2015
Happy Home Designer has been released in Japan and South Korea! Happy designing to those of you who're already playing! - July 12th, 2015
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has passed away at the age of 55. - June 16th, 2015
A new spinoff game, Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival, has been announced for a Holiday 2015 release on the Wii U! - June 1st, 2015
A K.K. Slider Mii outfit has been announced for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U! - April 1st, 2015
Happy Home Designer has been announced -- a game where you design houses according to villagers' requests. It will be released this autumn in all territories! - February 26th, 2015
The snow has melted in Animal Crossing! It's now springtime and we've updated the design to celebrate. - January 1st, 2015
Happy New Years everybody! Here's to another year and we, the staff at Animal Crossing Wiki would like to thank you for helping our Wikia grow over the last year and wish to continue on the hard work!
2014[]
- November 21st, 2014
Super Smash Bros for Wii U has been released! - October 3rd, 2014
Super Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS has been released! - September 1st, 2014
Autumn is starting in Animal Crossing! The wiki theme has been updated to reflect the changing seasons. - August 26th, 2014
Isabelle and the Villager have been confirmed as DLC characters in Mario Kart 8! - August 14th, 2014
It's been nine years since the Animal Crossing Wiki was founded on August 14th, 2005! Thanks to everyone who has helped us grow to be the best Animal Crossing resource around! Here's to our next year! - July 30th, 2014
The chat now features a night-time mode! - July 25th, 2014
The new forum has been introduced! - June 1st, 2014
Summer is starting in Animal Crossing! - May 20th, 2014
The Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service has been shut down as of today, preventing online play in Wild World and City Folk as well as many other Wii and DS titles. New Leaf is unaffected. - March 24th, 2014
The wiki chatroom is currently broken. This seems to be a Wikia-wide problem. - March 1st, 2014
The wiki theme has been updated to reflect the changing seasons. Spring is starting in Animal Crossing! - February 18th, 2014
We apologise for the slow loading times and broken chatroom throughout today. This seems to be a problem across the whole of Wikia. - February 7th, 2014
Major revisions have been made to the rules page. Please read through the entire article, as failure to comply with these rules may result in blocking. - February 2nd, 2014
We apologize for not updating our Message Board in a while, we hope for the best of 2014 and Happy Groundhog Day to everyone! Make sure to get a model of Mr. Resetti and cross your fingers for the snow to finally disappear.
2013[]
- December 1st, 2013
The wiki theme has been updated to reflect the changing seasons. The winter season starts in Animal Crossing over the next few weeks. - November 28th, 2013
We, the Administrators from the Animal Crossing Wiki would like to say to each and everyone of you to have a Happy Thanksgiving! Also, don't forget to visit and help out Franklin for the Harvest Festival, trust us all of your hard work will all be worth it, have fun! - November 15th, 2013
As December approaches, be sure to vote for or even post a nomination for next month's Featured Article! Also, be sure to prepare for the Fishing Tourney tomorrow in New Leaf and City Folk. - November 7th, 2013
Wikia is having some problems with background images for the site (and numerous other wikis too) at the moment. Do not worry, Wikia Staff are aware of the problem and are working on a solution. - November 4th, 2013
Happy November everybody! Just a heads up, before heading to our Wikia Chat, make sure to read the rules and must be over 13 years old to enter according to COPPA, which is now established as you walk into the Chat room. - October 5th, 2013
Gear up, dress up, get your scare on! Coming on Thursday, October 31st, Jack will be coming to your town giving out any of the Creepy or Spooky Series for the exchange of lollipops, have a Happy Trick-or-Treating! - June 21st, 2013
The Animal Crossing Wiki has a new layout! We now provide you with more information, including ways in which to get involved with our community. We hope you enjoy it! - June 21st, 2013
Registered Users can now share their Nintendo 3DS friend code, by using the UserFriendCode userbox. Be sure to check the Userboxes page for more information. - June 15th, 2013
Australian release of New Leaf! Use this template on your userpage if you have New Leaf! - June 14th, 2013
European release of New Leaf! Use this template on your userpage if you have New Leaf! - June 9th, 2013
SmaMan is the first registered user to own the NTSC version of New Leaf! Fang³ (talk) 04:44, June 9, 2013 (UTC) - June 9th, 2013
North American release of New Leaf! Use this template on your userpage if you have New Leaf! Fang³ (talk) 04:44, June 9, 2013 (UTC) - June 8th, 2013
Animal Crossing: New Leaf will be released tomorrow in America! Pray the shelves won't be empty! G-Bot (talk) 20:07, June 8, 2013 (UTC) - June 7th, 2013
The Animal Crossing Wiki IRC channel has been set up Fang³ (talk) 03:15, June 7, 2013 (UTC) - April 22nd, 2013
New featured articles and images have been added to the front page in keeping with the Spring theme. - MerrytonRyan (talk) 18:29, April 22, 2013 (UTC) - April 20th, 2013
Please take a look at this forum discussion. Fang³ (talk) 05:53, April 20, 2013 (UTC) - April 1st, 2013
April villager birthdays have been added to the front page, along with notable April events! - MerrytonRyan (talk) 23:53, March 31, 2013 (UTC) - March 18th, 2013
Spring is here at the Animal Crossing Wikia! Expect to see green and other colors return. A new poll has been added to the front page, asking which new personality you are most interested in seeing, in New Leaf. Other changes have taken place too, such as notable March events, new featured image and article sections. - MerrytonRyan
2012[]
- November 23rd, 2012
I'm going to start testing and implementing some new templates around the wikia (some are already in place) so don't be shocked or surprised if things start looking different. Taliseth (talk) 07:55, November 24, 2012 (UTC) - October 5th, 2012
This video is freaking amazing. Watch it nao! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX3hVM4zUCY&feature=g-u-u Taliseth That would happen to be the Nintendo Direct of Oct. 5th. Exclusively for Animal Crossing: Jump Out. NintendoLover - September 30th, 2012
I will start incorporating other features into the wiki (such as a background for each season) sooner or later. I will try and work out how to change the cursor too. Stay tuned. Taliseth - September 1st, 2012
The Featured Article and the Notable Events have been changed to reflect the season of Autumn, and the new month. ~Primrose Everdeen - July 2nd, 2012
Larsenv, ILikeCheese, Primrose Everdeen, and G-Bot have been promoted to admins! - June 14th, 2012
The Wikia has accumulated almost all there is to know on the past Animal Crossing games thanks to the users. Keep up the good work! ~Taliseth
2011[]
- December 12th, 2011
A new Featured Article has been added to the Main Page, to reflect the approaching season of Winter. - October 19th, 2011
A new Featured Article and Media has been added to the Main Page, to reflect the approaching season of Autumn. - October 19th, 2011
C-Star55 and Taliseth have been promoted to bureaucrat! - February 24th, 2011
A new Featured Article and Media has been added to the Main Page, to reflect the approaching season of Spring.
2010[]
- November 18th, 2010
The Animal Crossing Wiki has been copied to another wiki. You are welcome to edit there, or to continue to edit here. Please see here for more information, as well as a link to the other wiki. - November 14th, 2010
Copy Complete - The Animal Crossing Wiki has been copied to another wiki. You are welcome to edit there, or to continue to edit here. Please see the blog for more on what's next for this wiki. - November 6th, 2010
Moving Almost Complete - The Animal Crossing Wiki is almost finished moving to animalcrossingwiki.me. Will all users please create accounts and start editing there. - November 4th, 2010
Moved - The Animal Crossing Wiki is now going to move to animalcrossingwiki.me. - October 25th, 2010
Moved - The Animal Crossing Wiki has moved to animalcrossing.shoutwiki.com. - September 19th, 2010
Congrats! - AnimalCrossingFan12 and AgentCarmen12 have both been promoted to rollback! - September 9th, 2010
Competition! - There is a vacant seat in the b'crat circle, so either Sailor sofia or Minifig-me will get the role. Cast your vote here! - September 7th, 2010
Congrats! - Ilovesockmonkeys has been promoted to rollback! - September 6th, 2010
Congrats! - NintendoLover has been promoted to rollback! - August 15th, 2010
Anniversary! - Animal Crossing City celebrates its fifth year of running. Thanks to all of you for making this come true! - August 12th, 2010
Gone! - The achievements system has been removed from the wiki! - August 7th, 2010
Congrats! - Anteater99 has been promoted to rollback! - August 3rd, 2010
Congrats! - Minifig-me is this wiki's newest admin! - August 3rd, 2010
Friend Codes - The Animal Crossing Wiki has a new Friend Code Database! - August 3rd, 2010
Awards! - A new awards system has been implemented on the wiki! - August 1st, 2010
New Poll! - The August Poll asks you which native fruit you had when you started your game. - July 26th, 2010
Congrats! - Minifig-me has been promoted to rollback! - July 23rd, 2010
New Layout- The main page has gotten a new layout! If you have any problems, please contact SuperAlpaca on his talk page. - July 19th, 2010
New Skin - There is (if you haven't noticed :P) a new skin on the wiki! If you are having any problems with it, please contact Dragonfree about it on his talk page. - July 18th, 2010
Congrats! - Sailor sofia is this wiki's newest admin! - July 1st, 2010
New Poll! - The July Poll asks you which fish you think is the most annoying. - June 19th, 2010
New Poll! - The second June Poll asks you what your favorite collectable item is. - June 15th, 2010
E3 - Nintendo 3DS officially revealed. New Animal Crossing series game announced. [1] No more details known.. Shown: Zelda: Skyward Sword, Epic Mickey, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Nintendogs + Cats, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Kirby: Epic Yarn and more... - June 11th, 2010
Fun! - FUN
is the humor central of the Animal Crossing series Wiki.
- April 30th, 2010
New Poll! - The May Poll asks you what you think is the best mode of transport in all of the Animal Crossing series games! - March 2nd, 2010
New Poll! - The Easter Poll asks you who you think Zipper T. really is.
2009[]
- February 24th, 2009
New Poll! - This months poll asks you what your favorite part of the City is in City Folk. - December 27th, 2009
New Poll! - This months poll asks you what your favorite City Folk event was, most of which including the new characters. - November 16th, 2009
New Poll! - This months poll asks you what your favorite fruit is. This could be your native fruit, or a fruit you must find to plant in your town! Share your favorite this month. - October 31st, 2009
Happy Halloween from the Animal Crossing Wiki! Don't forget to check out the Halloween related pages on this Wiki, and don't forget to look for Jack and collect Spooky furniture in Animal Crossing and City Folk! - September 30th, 2009
The Villager Project which looks at how the individual villager pages are written has changed. Villager pages now need to follow certain regulations. To help improve the villager pages, and to read up on the new regulations, please look at the Villager Project, found here. - July 24th, 2009
We are now in the spotlight! Hooray for our wikia and its contributors! - July 7th, 2009
We've reached our 1,000th article! Thanks to everybody who helped to get us to this milestone! - May 25th, 2009
Animal Crossing City has started a page where users may request or sell items - the Item Requests and Offers page. - May 24th, 2009
Animal Crossing City has launched its first monthly Photo Competition! Entries are being accepted now, along the theme of 'Creative Ways to Annoy your Neighbours'. Please visit the competition's forum for more information. - March 14th, 2009
We've recently created a forum in order to dicuss various topics with ease. You can join the talks here! Thanks to Paper Crossing for setting it up. - February 28th, 2009
The Fishybuggypedia is a group of users dedicated to the betterment of articles about fish and insects. How about lending them your talents? - January 28th, 2009
To all Animal Crossers - this is your chance to change the Wiki's future! Please joint the discussion here. We need to set standards for articles, Wiki policies, and we need a new administrator. Who knows? You could be the one we're looking for! - January 18th, 2009
Hey, guys! Just shouting out that you guys can ask me any questions on building pages here at the AC wikia! I myself, on the other hand, am working on the movie character profiles. You can see some completed ones here and here. I am also working on the monkey characters, only availible either in Japan or Toys R us DS download. - 050294
- January 1st, 2009
It's 2009, sprout! At least where I come from, (chuckles) , anyway enjoy this wonderful year, and go to my friend 050294's page, if you want to learn more 'bout the new charecter pages... This ol' turtle just hopes you go down to your town hall, and get a New Year's Shirt 2009, from him- Mayor Tortimer
2008[]
- December 31st, 2008
Happy New Year, sprout! This is to another(hopefully) wonderful year, at Animal Crossing City! You go enjoy yourself, and once again, have a great New Year! - Mayor Tortimer - December 29th, 2008
Hello, fellow animal crossers! This is 050294 and what I wanted to say is that there's a new formatting for Character pages, which you can find here. If any of you editors need tips, tricks or just help, just leave a message on my talk page!
- September 3rd, 2008
We're planning a forum discussion on how to improve the Wiki in terms of organization and appearance. Please post here with ideas. - July 24th, 2008
We recently implemented the standard Wikia Main Page design. Please give us comments for improvement here. - July 15th, 2008
Nintendo unveils Animal Crossing: City Folk for Wii. Please share any new information you have!