
The North American Twitter account for Animal Crossing: New Leaf has opened up at @AnimalCrossing with a welcome message from Isabelle, the secretary in New Leaf.
Head over to the Twitter page to follow the account for new screenshots and more over the coming weeks. You can also follow the European account @AC_Isabelle.
Hopefully, the official complete website for North America will launch soon following the Twitter account. The European website has been open for a few weeks now.

Children’s Day is a Japanese holiday and event in Animal Crossing: New Leaf occurring on May 5th, part of the Golden Week in Japan. There are three opportunities with the Children’s Day event in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. They’re all after the break:
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Just in case anyone was looking for a confirmation, Nintendo has sent out a SpotPass notification on the 3DS informing us that Animal Crossing: New Leaf will be available to digitally download at midnight on June 9th.
The notification goes on to suggest adding Animal Crossing: New Leaf to your Wish List on the Nintendo eShop if you want to remember to buy the game as soon as it is available.

If you have SpotPass notifications enabled on your Nintendo 3DS, you should see the message as we speak. Enjoy the cute banner.

We’re in the home stretch before Animal Crossing: New Leaf releases worldwide as early copies of the game were released to various press, reviewers, and bloggers today.
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Amazon has updated their listing for the Animal Crossing: New Leaf Prima Strategy Guide with a new cover art picture to replace the previous placeholder picture.
It’s very close to the official English box art for the game but I know some have been wondering what the real guide would look like. If you look closely, it almost appears as if the guide will be inside a hardcover holder. That’s just my poor speculation though.
Anyway, let us know in the comments below if you notice anything else. Here’s the listing on Amazon.


We reported a few days ago that the Isabelle and Town Hall figurine/model pre-order bonus was coming to Australia via unknown retailers. Today we can report that the pre-order bonus has been spotted at EB Games in Australia.
Based on an update to the page, it seems that the pre-order bonus is exclusive to EB Games in Australia. I’ll let you decide if the bonus is worth buying it there. Those interested in pre-ordering at EB Games Australia can click here to do so.

As many of you know, Animal Crossing: New Leaf offers an extensive QR code feature which allows you to share your pattern designs on the internet with others using a QR code image. Since the game has been released in Japan since November, there’s already a large library of QR codes out on the web. Read on for new details about using them overseas…
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