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Browse further reading around the ways the pandemic influenced players’ engagement with and experience of Animal Crossing: New Horizons!

The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing (The Atlantic)

Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Is the Game We All Need Right Now (Wired)

Tom Nook, Take Me Away! ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Is A Perfect Escape (NPR)

‘It’s uniting people’: why 11 million are playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Guardian)

Animal Crossing Is the Perfect Way to Spend Quarantine (New York Times)

Think Animal Crossing is just a cutesy ‘capitalist dystopia’? Think again (Guardian)

Inside academia’s growing interest in ‘Animal Crossing’ (Washington Post)

Black Lives Matter meets Animal Crossing: how protesters take their activism into video games (Guardian)

On lockdown, Hong Kong activists are protesting in Animal Crossing (Wired)

How Animal Crossing became a place of protest in China and Hong Kong (Eurogamer)

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is Fast Becoming a New Way for Hong Kong Protesters to Fight for Democracy (USGamer)

Animal Crossing removed from sale in China amid Hong Kong protests (BBC News)

‘Animal Crossing’ users are wearing Black Lives Matter shirts, making signs, and organizing virtual protests (Business Insider)

Animal Crossing: Game builds special new island to celebrate Pride month (BBC Newsround)

LGBT+ Pride Comes To Animal Crossing: Get Pride T-shirts, Flags And Furniture On Your Island (Forbes)

Joe Biden has his own island on ‘Animal Crossing’ where you can learn about his campaign (CNN)

How Animal Crossing became a PG paradise for brands (PR Week)

Animal Crossing’s turnips are bringing the internet together (The Verge)

Virtual rate cut forces Nintendo gamers into riskier assets (Financial Times)

Nintendo Asks Brands to Keep Politics and Money Out of Animal Crossing: New HorizonsUSGamer

Nintendo says Tom Nook is a ‘good guy.’ They’re right, and not for the reasons you think (Washington Post)