That's right, we have a new board on the forums! Head inside for the full details, courtesy of Mark Cullinane.

Today, Cube-Europe officially opens the Animal Crossing board on our forums. Here, you can discuss the Animal Crossing universe, from item collection and special events to describing your village and commenting on your experiences. The board will also be a hive of discussion for the upcoming sequel and Nintendo DS version. More importantly, perhaps, the board will serve as a marketplace for trading items like furniture, clothes designs and NES games, which can be done via the game's password system. Best of all, when an item is turned into a code, only the intended recipient can turn the code back into the item. All this can be done in Tom Nook's in-game shop, by the way.

If you haven't yet become a member of the C-E forums, now is a better time than ever to join a buzzing community of Nintendo fans- and the arrival of the most community-centric game in memory on Friday is bound to keep people talking.

Registration is quick, easy, and most importantly completely free of charge. Here is where you need to go to access the forums.

To get the ball rolling then, I've got an in-game copy of the fantastic NES game Balloon Fight up for grabs on Friday. Seeing as most of you lot will get a NES game thrown in on the supplied memory card, I'd be very interested in getting my hands on a new NES game. Get to the forums, then, and start the bidding...

Mark Cullinane [email protected]