New Japanese Trailer for Animal Crossing 3DS

Porter! Mayoral duties! New stores! Who knows why on earth Nintendo of America refused to mention it at E3 or in their new Nintendo Direct.

Well, Animal Crossing 3DS will becoming to Japan this Fall and Europe in 2013. While this new trailer is awesome, personally I hope they release some official North Americans Animal Crossing info soon.

Via Nintendo 3DS Blog.

Nintendo Confirms E3 2012 Presentation for June 5th at 9:00AM PST

– Tuesday, June 5, 2012
– Presentation: 9:00AM (West Coast)

Via GoNintendo.

Animal Crossing 3DS Releasing in Japan this Fall

At this Nintendo Direct Nintendo of Japan announced that Animal Crossing 3DS will be coming to Japan in the Fall. Besides that we’ve got a Japanese title (Tobidase Doubutsu no Mori, which translates to Leap Out Animal Crossing) and a handfull of new images, the first of which seems to depict the mayor’s office. The other images are below.

Via Tiny Cartridge.

Amazon France Gives September 28th Release Date to Animal Crossing 3DS

Just like the title of this post says, Amazon France has listed September 28th as a tentative release date for Animal Crossing 3DS. It’s not official by any means, but it’s a very plausible launch date.

Via GoNintendo.

New Details on Animal Crossing 3DS

• playing as mayor allows you to decorate the village
• add benches or street lamps, among other things
• you’ll be accompanied by a secretary
• this character looks like a dog
• seems she’s quite clumsy as well
• she’ll walk around with a clipboard and point out town areas that look good and bad
• design every aspect of your houses, even the mailbox and fence color
• have furniture redesigned and reupholstered
• separate top and bottom outfit designs
• village is now much bigger and has separate sections
• beach area is now bigger and can be accessed by following a path
• swim in the water as well
• cross the railroad tracks and visit what’s beyond
• this area offers new shopping spots and a fancy street with model homes
• model homes are empty house designs that are there to inspire your own home decor
• everytime you StreetPass someone, their house will be added to the model home section
• Tom Nook is in charge of the model homes
• villages will also have wishing wells

Via GoNintendo.

Animal Crossing 3DS Developer Roundtable

News about Animal Crossing 3DS has been in very small batches ever since it was announced. Now we have this developer roundtable to dissect. Although it won’t mean much to non Animal Crossing fanatics, I certainly had a joyous time watching it. I would analyze it for you, but IGN already did such a great job I think I’ll just send you over there if you are curious.

3DS Press Conference Wrap-up

Well, the 3DS press conference ended. There was a TON of new information. We got the announcement of a 3DS software update in November that will add the ability for the 3DS to capture 3D video. We got an announcement of Mario Tennis 3DS, as well as a number of other 3rd Party titles. We now have release dates for Super Mario 3D Land (November 13th) and Mario Kart 7 (December 4th). We now know that the Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is Nintendo’s largest project ever with 50-100 hours of gameplay and over 100 minutes of cutscenes. We have the official announcement of the circle pad attachment and six announced compatible titles (all 3rd party). We now know that the Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Addition will be coming for free to DSiware and the 3DS eShop become available September 28th (and will become unavailable Feb 20th for know good reason). We have the announcement of a “Misty Pink” 3DS. And we have the announcements and detailing’s for a boat load of other stuff (including tons of info on Super Mario Land 3D, Mario Kart 7, Animal Crossing, Luigi’s Mansion 2, Paper Mario, and Kid Icarus). I’ll try to slowly upload the best of the info, but at the moment, I would recommend exploring the following links (all found on GoNintendo. What can I say? They are on top of it):

• Nintendo’s press release that was launched right after the conference ended. (link)
• The conference itself, which is entirely in Japanese. (link)
• GoNintendo’s live blog with tons of information and vids of everything. (link)
• Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 Interviews. (link)
• Nintendo’s photo gallery, which is also all in Japanese. (link)
• GoNintendo’s photo gallery which has every pic released, it’s just unorganized. (link)