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If you're in Australia015 Archiveswaiting for the much hyped Animal Crossingmobile release next month, your wait is already over.

Nintendo's Animal Crossing: Pocket Campis already available in down under, the same day the game was announced.

SEE ALSO: 'Animal Crossing' will be coming to your phones next month

We've confirmed that the game is downloadable and fully playable already in Australia, a month ahead of the "late November" release that Nintendo pointed to.

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Here, we were offered a set of themes for our campsite.

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Since it's on mobile phones now, this version of the game has slightly modified controls for the single screen interface -- different from the Nintendo 3DS' dual screen and d-pad, that Animal Crossingveterans might be accustomed to.

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Here's a look at the game in play, in the "natural" campsite mode:

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The rest of us outside Australia will just have to twiddle our thumbs jealously until next month.

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