Animal Crossing’s big 3.0 update has fans itching to return to the cozy life

Animal Crossing, like Kirby, has come back when it seems like the world needs it most.

In 2020, Animal Crossing: New Horizons released on the Nintendo Switch. The game instantly became a smash hit, providing a much-needed place to safely gather with friends amidst the global shutdown of the covid-19 pandemic. In the almost six years since, Nintendo has sporadically kept up with the game, adding seasonal items and content, including the Happy Home Paradise DLC and the massive 2.0 content update that Nintendo claimed, at the time, would be the game’s last. But the arrival of the Switch 2 heralds a new update for the game that has fans itching …

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