Ahead of new game release, 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' book reflects on comfort, community, and capitalism

Ahead of new game release, 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' book reflects on comfort, community, and capitalism

Remember Animal Crossing: New Horizons? During the height of its popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the game, built for the Nintendo Switch console, was averaging 1 million copies sold per day. Now, almost six years since the start of the pandemic, University of California, Santa Cruz Professor of Computational Media Noah Wardrip-Fruin published a book titled "Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Can a Game Take Care of Us?"