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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Halloween Update Arrives September 30th

A Halloween themed update to Animal Crossing: New Horizons arrives on September 30th. Prepare for spooky decorations, costumes, and more.

Nintendo announced the next free update to Animal Crossing: New Horizons in a short trailer this morning. The update centers around the upcoming holiday: Halloween.

New DIY pumpkin crafts, spooky costumes, and a visit from Jack, the reigning czar of Halloween are all included in the free update. Don’t forget to hand out candy to your fellow villagers as they show off their costumes too!

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The trailer also revealed an upcoming update to the NookLink app scheduled for early October. This update will allow players to perform reactions with a simple tap of their phone screen.

Nintendo had one final announcement, yet another free update scheduled for late November that seems to feature some other holidays. Both a turkey and a reindeer villager were featured alongside the announcement.

The Fall update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons arrives on September 30th. Happy haunting!

Matt Buckley

After studying creative writing at Emerson College in Boston, Matt published a travel blog based on a two-month solo journey around the world, wrote for SmarterTravel, and worked on an Antarctic documentary series for NOVA, Antarctic Extremes. Today, for Gamepressure, Matt covers Nintendo news and writes reviews for Switch and PC titles. Matt enjoys RPGs like Pokemon and Breath of the Wild, as well as fighting games like Super Smash Bros., and the occasional action game like Ghostwire Tokyo or Gods Will Fall. Outside of video games, Matt is also a huge Dungeons & Dragons nerd, a fan of board games like Wingspan, an avid hiker, and after recently moving to California, an amateur surfer.

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