Hello and welcome to Kotaku's split screen, the show where we talk about video games,

one extremely specific topic at a time.

I am your host for this week, Ethan Gatch, and joining me today is my co-host, Lisa Marie Sigara.

Hi.

Our other co-host, Mike Fahey, is indisposed this week yet again.

He is busy moving and recovering from a recent respiratory virus that's been going around.

All the kids have been getting it. I can testify to that. My kids have had it.

His kids got it. Now he's got it. So his voice is out. We wish him the best as always. And he will

be back, of course, hopefully next week. It turns out needing your voice working is important

to do a podcast. Yeah, you're on a computer. You're just like, yep, I just type.

That's the words.

It doesn't matter.

But then, yeah, for the podcast, it's like, oh, whoa.

This is hacking up every five seconds.

It's not going to work.

Crazy.

Lisa, Marie, what are we talking about this week?

We are talking about Animal Crossing.

I just keep shouting Animal Crossing every time we start planning this.

What? I'm sorry, but what, I'm not familiar. Can you, what's animal what?

Is this a crosswalk or crossing guards? What's going on here? Oh my God. Animal Crossing,

if you have been living under a rock is, I actually struggle with what kind of game it is.

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