NBCNews: This past week has been rough, from reports of COVID-19s rising numbers across the world, to the desperate challenges confronted by those on the front lines of this pandemic. But in between the doom and gloom, something odd was happening online. On March 20, the top Twitter trends suddenly went wall-to-wall fruit: oranges, cherries, apples, pears. Since then, images of animated island life and grumbles about owing ones mortgage to a raccoon have proliferated in various corners of social media. All of these are due to the arrival of Nintendos latest release for the Switch console, Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The game has taken a homebound nation by storm, thanks to an accidentally perfectly timed arrival and a soothing all-ages scenario.
