Clever Gamer Makes Their Own Animal Crossing Board Game

February in brings two returning seasonal events as well as new bugs, fish, and seasonal items. Each month gives players more opportunities to obtain furniture and collect different critters. Continue to fill out the museum during the last few weeks of winter in the Northern Hemisphere or summer in the Southern Hemisphere. New characters will visit the island during February, bringing joy to villagers. Unfortunately, this month is rather quiet and only offers two main seasonal events.

An artistic Palworld fan has created and shared several photos of a brand-new Grass-type Pal that they have designed. The year has just begun, and Palworld has become a hit, surprising many gamers around the world. One of the reasons for its meteoric rise is the way Pocketpair blends two well-loved genres, survival and monster-catching, to create a gameplay loop that is enjoyable for many players.

An Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan online has shared their adorable diorama, which pays tribute to Stitches by using a Nintendo DS as a decoration. Animal Crossing: New Horizons features plenty of adorable villagers, but Stitches remains a fan-favorite.

Many gamers have found creative ways to pay homage to classic gaming, and a recent example includes one fan of the original PlayStation who created neat PS1-style cases for modern games like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and Assassin’s Creed Mirage, complete with customized box art. 2024 marks 30 years since the PS1’s debut, so this fan’s project, besides being rather timely, is a fun and practical way to pay homage to Sony’s debut console during a huge milestone year.

The Like a Dragon (née Yakuza) franchise is known and beloved for its idiosyncratic tone, lovable characters, and complete devotion to minigames. You get fishing minigames! Dating minigames! Cabaret club management minigames! Movie minigames! And they often come with a surprising amount of depth and replayability.

A Palworld player lost hours of progress after accidentally destroying his base in tragic fashion. Palworld has earned praise for its base-building mechanics, but things can get a little finicky sometimes.

A Minecraft fan has used Blender to create an incredible animation of a Wither destroying a village. Villages have been a staple of Minecraft since it launched, but this animation adds a dark twist to the point of interest by having a boss attack it.

Frontier Developments, the British developer-publishers behind Elite Dangerous, Planet Zoo and Warhammer games including Warhammer 40,000 XCOM-a-like Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters and last year’s Age of Sigmar RTS Realms of Ruin, will host a new monthly developer showcase starting next week.

In about 50 days, one of the more unique game I’ve ever seen is going to hit GameFound, and this title is Meeple Inc. In Meeple Inc., players will be creating their own board games, hiring help, and attempting to win prestigious awards in order to be the best board game developer at the table. To be fair, it’s a bit more complicated than that (in a good, board game kind of way), so why not check out this summary from the development team behind this unique title!

A popular YouTuber turned their Sony PlayStation 5 into a fully-fledged gaming tablet. The custom portable device ended up being significantly smaller than even the slim version of Sony's current generation game console, all while performing at spec and generating less noise than a gaming laptop.

Ubisoft has revealed their interest in getting more people to subscribe to Ubisoft +. It may surprise you to learn how well they understand what they’re up against.

An Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan recreated Merry, their favorite villager in the game, as a The Sims 4 character. The Sims 4 has a good character creation system, and the result of this experiment is a human that greatly resembles Merry, the peppy cat.