It's celebration time in Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City, as we toast the 4th anniversary of the first Nintendogs game releases for Nintendo DS. Over the next four weeks (October 7th - November 3rd), you can download a different Nintendogs puppy every week, starting with a Labrador from October 7th, the official date of the 4th anniversary.
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Please note that one of the players living in the village must speak to Rover on the bus to the city after finishing their part-time job. Rover will only appear to speak with the first player in the village to go the city. If user-to-user communication is restricted in the Parental Controls settings of your Wii console, you will be unable to participate in this offer.
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GameStop.com just kicked-off a great offer for the Nintendo Wii. GameStop is offering a free Wii game selection of your choice with the purchase of a Wii system. The games you can select from include:

Animal Crossing: City Folk
Don King Boxing
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
ExciteBots: Trick Racing
MadWorld
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games
My Fitness Coach
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party
Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip
Sonic Unleashed
Wario Land: Shake It!
Wii Music

The offer is good until July 26th.
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GamerDeals writes:

"Grab either Animal Crossing: City Folk or Wii Music for $26.49 (47% off) at Amazon."
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Examiner: "In honor of the fourth of July, Amazon is discounting Animal Crossing: City Folk on the Nintendo Wii by 60%."
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Nintendo UK is having a bit of fun today in Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City (known as Animal Crossing: City Folk in North America).

From the Nintendo UK site:
"Everyone likes a good prank - unless it's on you, of course. Life in Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City for Wii reflects events in the real world, so don't be surprised if things get a little funny around town tomorrow (it's April Fools' Day, in case you'd forgotten).

If you don't mind being the butt of a joke, one local critter you'll definitely want to catch up with is Tortimer. Between 6 a.m. and 12 a.m., the old fellow will gladly enjoy a good chuckle at your expense. Who knows, maybe he'll even reward you for being such a good sport."
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Wii games will be on sale throughout the day today (3/31/09), as Amazon.com's featured Gold Box and Lightning Deals. The Gold Box Wii game is Wii Music, which is $29.99. A pretty good savings of $20 for a Nintendo game. It's available while supplies last. Throughout the day, more Wii games will go on sale as part of the Wii Lightning Deals. Be on the lookout on the hour, since these tend to go fast (depending on the game of course).

Here are the hours that each Lightning Deal begins, along with a hint of the game:

6:00 AM PDT - In the Garden of Weeden, honey, don't you know that I love you?
10:00 AM PDT - Start training now.
2:00 PM PDT - The Milky Way's got nothing in comparison.
3:00 PM PDT - Give me a W! Give me an I! Give me another I! What does that spell?
6:00 PM PDT - That's so cute! The animals think they're people!

Hmm... could Animal Crossing: City Folk be the 6pm deal?
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In an attempt to curb child predation, the police in Missouri are now claiming that any adult who owns and plays games like Animal Crossing probably doesn't have a good reason to do so and is most likely a pedophile with bad intent.
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Marvel takes a second swing at MMOs, Rumor Killers sounds off on the weeks scuttlebutt, and Animal Crossing is a haven for child predators? All this and more in today's roundup...
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Gamepolitics: Law enforcement is an increasingly challenging job, so GP likes to see police officers well trained and well-informed.

Moreover, with an uptick in the number of incidents in which alleged pedophiles have made contact with their victims through online games, this is clearly a venue that the police need to be able to understand and deal with effectively when the need arises.

That being said, we hope these comments by an investigator with the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force were somehow misquoted or taken out of context:

"There is no reason an adult should have [Animal Crossing: City Folk]," says Andy Anderson, Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force.
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Retailer Amazon.com on Fri. price cut the game title Animal Crossing: City Folk for Nintendo Co.'s Wii to under $30 in a new one-day sale.

In the promotion, Animal Crossing: City Folk carries a sale price of $29.98, 40 percent off the $49.99 MSRP.
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Gamer Limit writes "Nintendo has finally delivered on their exciting promise of downloadable content for Animal Crossing: Lets Go To The City. Starting from today players can download a special item to customise their characters appearance even further from before. Its not much Nintendo, but its a start."
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Top 20 Games of December 2008:
01. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 1460k
02. [360] Call of Duty: World at War* (Activision Blizzard) - 1330k
03. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 999k
04. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) - 878k
05. [WII] Guitar Hero World Tour* (Activision Blizzard) - 859k
06. [360] Gears of War 2* (Microsoft) - 745k
07. [360] Left 4 Dead (Electronic Arts) - 629k
08. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo) - 540k
09. [PS3] Call of Duty: World at War (Activision Blizzard) - 533k
10. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk* (Nintendo) - 497k
11. [WII] Wii Music (Nintendo) - ~480k
12. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
13. [NDS] Personal Trainer: Cooking (Nintendo)
14. [360] Fallout 3* (Bethesda Softworks)
15. [NDS] Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force (Disney Interactive Studios)
16. [WII] Link's Crossbow Training (Nintendo)
17. [PS2] Guitar Hero World Tour* (Activision Blizzard)
18. [360] Madden NFL 09* (Electronic Arts)
19. [WII] Call of Duty: World at War (Activision Blizzard)
20. [WII] Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip (Ubisoft)
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Mr. Resetti is an occasionally annoying character that has appeared in all Animal Crossing titles, but no one would say that he could disturb anyone…Right? Well, Nintendo has issued a warning in the Animal Crossing: City Folk instruction booklet about Mr. Resetti, and believe it or not note that he "may be disturbing to young children."
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In what seems to be a huge mistake or oversight on behalf either Nintendo Europe or Australia, it seems that if you bought an Aussie copy of Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City and you have an Aussie version of Animal Crossing: Wild World, if you want to import your character, you're flat out of luck. Nintendo has in fact given Australians the US version of Wild World. And guess what – Let's Go to the City doesn't speak American.

This will also affecting people who don't have matching region games in either America or Europe.
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MTV Multiplayer writes: "Video game companies send me games: not surprising. Yesterday, Nintendo sent me a game they played for me: say what?

In my mailbox yesterday was a copy of 2005's "Animal Crossing: Wild World" for the DS out of the shrinkwrap and accompanied with a letter on Nintendo stationery written in the voice of the game's Mayor Tortimer, encouraging me to use this copy of the game to import all of its unlocked items and its character to "Animal Crossing: City Folk" on the Wii.

Nintendo must have known that I'm terrible at "Animal Crossing" and thought I'd need help. So they unlocked a lot of content for me. They appear to have quite accidentally gotten a bit hip-hop about all this. Whoever played this game for me back at Nintendo trained at least one of the characters to greet me with the line [censored here]: 'How are you, N-a?'"
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A copy of DS title Animal Crossing Wild World sent out to media yesterday by Nintendo came loaded with most of the game's secrets unlocked, it also included a nasty surprise.

When you come upon Baabara, the town's resident sheep, you're greeted with a racial epithet. The word is used repeatedly in your conversation with the sheep.

"I almost forgot about you, N--a" "So got any juicy gossip for me, N--a?" "Just thinking about it gets me all excited, N--a."
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N-Europe write: "With just under a week to go until Nintendo unleash the Wii version of Animal Crossing in Europe, the last thing you'll want to hear is that you'll have to pay more if you want to get the highly-touted voice chat peripheral, Wii Speak, alongside it.

Unfortunately, that is exactly the case for gamers living in the Scandinavian regions Norway, Denmark and Sweden, who may be saddened to hear that the bundle won't be seeing a release in that region. You'll still be able to buy the game and microphone separately, it'll just cost a little extra."
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According to a recently released taste of last week's action in Japan by Famitsu, Nintendo's Animal Crossing: City Folk has crossed the 300k barrier, nearly doubling Wii Music's lifetime sales in only one week.
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Nintendo's revolutionary Wii microphone peripheral will allow us to talk down on each other Nov. 16. This package will include a code for the Wii Speak Channel so you can chat it up with friends on your list...

Read the rest of this news at the link below.
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