"There is no reason an adult should have this game," were the ominous words of Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force officer, Andy Anderson, referring to... wait for it... Animal Crossing: City Folk. For real? Yeah, as real as the name Andy Anderson is.

It's been another week, and now we have the latest from Media Create. Animal Crossing: City Folk comes in at #1, followed by handheld releases Chrono Trigger DS and Mobile Suit: Gundam vs. Gundam. Find out if your favorite game made it to the top of the software charts.

In just a little over a week from today, we will be experiencing the new voice chat function of Nintendo's Wii. Armed with a microphone accessory, Animal Crossing: City Folk will be the first to try out the room-to-room function, but which will also later on be released separately. To find out more new details, head on over to the full article.

Break open those piggy banks! Then take out US$ 69.99, then... put it in another piggy bank until the game comes out? Anyway, that's the pricetag of Nintendo's Animal Crossing: City Folk, which will be bundled with the new peripheral, WiiSpeak.

The Wii finally gets a voice chat solution with WiiSpeak, which was unveiled earlier at E3 2008. There's not a lot of games known that will use the mic yet, but what can you expect from a new peripheral? So what games will be using WiiSpeak? Answer in the full article.

Animal Crossing, which has been confirmed earlier this month for the Wii, received a major update from Nintendo's E3 press conference today. According to the game's director, the game will have a new microphone peripheral called WiiSpeak. You know what that means? Yep, voice chat on the Wii! That and more announcements for the game in the full article.

Yes - CONFIRMED. We can't even stress that enough with all capital letters. A blog post from Tom East of the Official Nintendo Magazine solidifies the rumors that went 'round since the magazine sprinkled delicious hints of an Animal Crossing coming to Nintendo's new platforms. And the word goes: the announcement is going to be made at E3. More details at the full story.

We learned just a while ago that there are plans to turn the Wii version of Animal Crossing (also on Nintendo DS) into a MMO video game title. For those familiar with the game, this is a very feasible concept given the features of the title that rely on real-life conditions such as weather, social conventions, time, and others.

But the million dollar question is how exactly Nintendo intends to go about this. Designer and Project Head Katsuya Eguchi wouldn't spill enough beans to provide us with the exact picture but according to his statements, they are thinking of providing mobile and PC connection for basic features such as sending messages to other players.

Furthermore, Nintendo revealed as well today plans for an official DS flash card that will be used at first for the back catalog of GameBoy and GameBoy Color video game titles. Quite interestingly, it was also said that this flash card will serve as Nintendo's way of offering publisher-supported content to consumers.

If you didn't quite understand that last statement, you can think of it as Nintendo's upcoming WiiWare channel for the DS. If you want to go further, this is also a prelude to Nintendo supporting community-created stuff (read: homebrew).

Despite those exciting possibilities, it is still uncertain at this point as to how far Nintendo is willing to go with this.

The DS version of Animal Crossing by Nintendo (also for the Wii) just shows how fun the game is in multiplayer. Of course, the question "how would Animal Crossing be like in MMORPG setting?" crossed our minds after seeing how much the DS version of Animal Crossing turned out to be highly successful in the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. And the (probable) good news? We may actually get to see it for ourselves, since there are now talks that Animal Crossing - the franchise that just looks good as an MMORPG game - will indeed become an MMORPG.

That is not to say that the rumored Animal Crossing MMORPG will be a PC title; the gaming world grapevine talks of a Wii MMORPG, this allegedly according to Edge magazine's Japanese source.

We're not sure how Nintendo will go about it, but if it indeed becomes true, it looks like Nintendo will have another severe case of Wii console shortage.

We're still waiting for Nintendo's confirmation, so stay tuned for further updates!

If you're into them game collectibles, then maybe you'll find this cute enough for you to pull out US$ 39 from your wallets. This one here is a World Trading Figure Set for the lovable Animal Crossing game.

I personally think it certainly has that zing factor to it, especially if it's just plain chibbi-ness we're talking about. Anyhow, there are nine separate figures, each measuring an inch, along with them trees to greenify the Animal Crossing globe. Apart from that, it also has some more stickers to make your Animal Crossing globe a nicer world to -- er -- display.

Again, it's nothing oober fancy. Just enough to get those cutesy points coming in.