{"id":16820,"date":"2020-02-18T23:06:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T04:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=16820"},"modified":"2020-02-18T23:06:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T04:06:25","slug":"animal-crossing-new-horizons-direct-set-for-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2020\/02\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-direct-set-for-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct set for Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo announced on Tuesday that they will host a lenghty Nintendo Direct on Thursday morning to showcase information about the highly anticipated <strong>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/strong> game for the Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<p>The Direct will start at 9:00am ET and the livestream will run for roughly 25 minutes according to the tweet from Nintendo. The Direct will feature and in depth look at the upcoming game.<\/p>\n<p><em>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/em> is the latest game in the <em>Animal Crossing<\/em> franchise since <em>New Leaf<\/em> for the Nintendo 3DS back in 2013. The most recent addition to the franchise is the mobile spin-off title <em>Pocket Camp<\/em> which puts you as the leader of a campground. There is speculation that the Switch game could see some sort of integration with <em>Pocket Camp<\/em>, though that is yet to be confirmed at this point.<\/p>\n<p><em>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/em> is set for release for the Nintendo Switch on March 20th, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Nintendo livestream below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SVRruyVqlJg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo announced on Tuesday that they will host a lenghty Nintendo Direct on Thursday morning to showcase information about the highly anticipated Animal Crossing: New Horizons game for the Nintendo Switch. The Direct will start at 9:00am ET and the livestream will run for roughly 25 minutes according to the tweet from Nintendo. The Direct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1178,1530],"tags":[49,2051,2373,519,1386],"class_list":["post-16820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nintendo-switch","tag-animal-crossing","tag-animal-crossing-pocket-camp","tag-animal-crossing-new-horizons","tag-animal-crossing-new-leaf","tag-nintendo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/animal_crossing_direct_2020.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-4ni","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16791,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2020\/01\/special-edition-animal-crossing-new-horizons-nintendo-switch-coming-in-march\/","url_meta":{"origin":16820,"position":0},"title":"Special Edition Animal Crossing: New Horizons Nintendo Switch coming in March","date":"January 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"A Nintendo Switch system inspired by Animal Crossing: New Horizons is on the way. 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