Nintendo has announced the Wii version of Animal Crossing will release in Europe this December.

The company has also given the game a fresh new European subtitle; the North American “City Folk” tag has been dropped in favor of “Let’s Go to the City” for Europe.

Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City will release in Europe less than one month after reaching North American retail under the moniker Animal Crossing: City Folk.

Europeans waited two years for the GameCube version of Animal Crossing after its North American release in Sept. 2002.

It didn’t come to Europe until Sept. 2004.

Apparently WiiBrew dev “Crediar” has released a Wii menu hack that allows you to edit some of the internal settings of the Wii. (Which could prove to be very dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing.)  You could say this is similar to the DVD Hack that was seen a few days ago, where you could play and watch DVDs on your Wii. However, Starfall is a hack that unlocks many of the Wii’s internal services, including games and certain channels, to become region free.

With this you can finally run that copy of Dairantou Smash Brothers X you bought thinking the Wii was region free to begin with, or even go and import some games that would never come out here. Let us all go and get that shinkansen game “Densha de Go!”. All in all, this is some interesting developements since WiiBrew developers seem to be doing amazing things with the Wii. I wonder what Nintendo’s response to all of this is going to be.