A high volume of recent Animal Crossing speculation has lead many Nintendo fans to suspect that a new Animal Crossing game will be announced at E3 this year. While we only have a handful of days to wait for the big event, the latest issue of the UK’s Official Nintendo Magazine appears to hint at some upcoming Animal Crossing-related news. This picture was printed within an E3 preview section along with the caption:

It’s been a while! It’s time to visit an old friend. How’s your village doing these days?

Could this be an early confirmation of Animal Crossing Wii, or something entirely different? Fortunately, we don’t have to wait much longer to find out!

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You know, after making the first two Super Smash Bros. games, leaving HAL and forming Sora, and having to be cornered into making Super Smash Bros. Brawl, you’d think Masahiro Sakurai would be sick of the sequels by now. Luckily for the fans, he only cares that you’re happy, and it looks like he’s open to a sequel. In the distant, distant future.

Sakurai confirmed several details with ONM for their latest issue, including that a Brawl sequel would have to do more than simply add more characters to the existing 39 (what? I thought there were 35?). There were also several more characters and several other game concepts that were left out due to time constraints. It ain’t easy squeezing all that into a game within three years.

There are more topics discussed in this Friday’s OMN issue, but you can read the excerpt after the jump.

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