Animal Crossing: New Horizons allows you more control within the Animal Crossing series than ever before. You get control over the terrain and environment of an entire island, creating different levels, waterfalls, and rivers almost anywhere you want. This control is not limited to just your surroundings but also allows you to shape how you look.
You are able to change the way your character looks at any point. Initially, you’ll be limited in your options, but over time, you’ll have the chance to purchase additional hairstyles, hair colors, and eye colors. And updating your look is extremely simple.
When first starting the game, you’ll be offered four mouth options, three noses, and three options of blush. These numbers will always stay the same. However, the things that will change are the hairstyles and colors you can choose from. When initially creating your character, you’ll be offered eight different hairstyles and eight different hair colors. All of these tones are natural in look. Although this seems limiting, as the game progresses, you’ll have a chance to pick up more.
You’ll be able to purchase more hairstyles and colors as your campsite expands, as well as once the Nook Miles program is unlocked. Once the green kiosk is open, it will start to offer a variety of hair DIYs for you to purchase. These DIYs will expand your collection of hair colors and styles.
The Top 8 Pop Hairstyles DIY and the Top 8 Cool Hairstyles DIYs will come with more hairstyles for you to choose from. On top of that, the Top 8 Stylish Hair Colors DIY offers light gray, turquoise, green, blue, cherry red, orange, lilac, and pink hair color options. The two Hairstyle DIYs will cost 2,400 Nook Miles, while the hair colors will cost 3,000 Nook Miles, so be sure to save up!
Additionally, players who time travel or are inactive in the game for two weeks will get a chance to get another style of hair: bed head. In order to get the bed head hairstyle, you’ll need to either time travel 15 days ahead or just not play the game for 15 days. When you do finally log in, your character will come out of the house with unruly hair. The character will straighten it out and it will go back to normal, but it will be offered as an option for players in the future.
Changing the way you look is exceptionally easy. All you need is a mirror. You can either make the basic full-length mirror or purchase one when it’s available in the Nooks Miles+ Program. Once you have the mirror, place it somewhere in your house where you can reach it.
Once it’s placed, simply walk up to the mirror and press A. The game will ask if you want to “Change up your look” with the mirror. Answering in the affirmative will allow you to change anything you want about your character’s appearance. The mirror will allow you to change your character’s eyes, mouth, nose, skin color, hair color, and hairstyle. You’ll even be able to add custom designs, allowing your character to finally have eyebrows. It’s also worth noting that the first time you touch the mirror, you will automatically get six more hairstyles to choose from. So even if you do not buy the other hairstyles, you’ll at least get more options for hairstyles than you were offered initially.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.