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[Brannon]

Because this Thursday, this thread will be the safest place for all your April Foolery. Seriously.

Alternatively, those sites that make you concentrate on some picture before scaring the crap out of you? They, too, can go here until that hallowed Thursday. (you have been warned)

In the meanwhile, I'm sure Bungie has something cooking on the stove. Pimps on Ice?

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Knew I was missing something. Latest compilation ever? Yes. Yes it is.

BEGIN!

Starcraft 2 Pro-Mod
http://www.sc2promod.com/

• CIRCUS (creators of D.C. ~Da Capo~ et al.) announce Kotori LoveExtasyPlus, playable on Tablet PCs.

• Not to be outdone, FrontWing (creators of Time Leap) follows suit.

• Navel (creators of Shuffle, Soul Link) announces a familiar platformer...

• PajamaSoft (creators of Prism Ark) announce a 3-D fighter, THE PENCIL ROYALE.

• LumpOfSugar (creators of Tayutama) announce an action game that looks kinda cool, Prism Rhythm: Another/flowering

• And as mentioned previously, Arcana Heart x Blaze Blue Continuum Shift, the challenge

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youtube now has something higher then HD resolution: text p option... :lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7BfESyX9d8

BlazBlue vs Arcana Heart (Flash game)

http://www.arcsystemworks.jp/

Pretty sure this is an april fool's joke too:

http://www.realitymod.com/

http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f38.../78995-project-reality-vietnam-announced.html

Capcom vs SNK3
http://shoryuken.com/content.php?r=5...s-SNK-3-Leaked

Can't be real...

http://www.paragon-wow.com/
Top WoW guilds in the world merging, the union will be sponsored by Unilever.

:lol

We just posted ours...
We like to make them as blatant as possible so that people don't get confused or 'fooled' by our site conversions. It's more fun when everyone is in on the joke.

http://www.n-sider.com/

There will be an article with all our past april fools gags in about 90 minutes (it gets published on pacific time apparently).

No one will care,

so here's your april fools sites from Japan (all video game related):
http://www.nitroplus.co.jp/nitroplusfilm/ <- chaos head/steins gate makers.
http://circus.nandemo.gr.jp/2010circus_ap/index.html

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1233540_1124.html < Famitsu Valkyria Chronicles Live Action Movie Announcement

http://googlejapan.blogspot.com/2010/04/google.html < Google Japan's New Japanese Language Input Device

I wish this was real
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/iCade.shtml?icpg=Carousel_iCade_1

http://xkcd.com/ has done itself up proper for the occasion.

Sega announces new Ecco the Dolphin game! With guns!

posted?
MGS: Peace Walker meets Assassin’s Creed in new trailer

<nsfw> introduced in HTML5. IE9 and Bing to use <xxx>.

Google changes its name to Topeka after Topeka Changes its name to Google.

Platinum's is pretty great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OwPyE1ovSo

xbox 360 slim first look exclusive!!!!!

http://www.gamekings.tv

Front page video, off course fake

Pokemon Kart Wii
http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/28723

WarCraft Free to play
:lol :lol :lol :lol never happen with Activision :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Unfortunately in Italian.
But pretty understandable.

http://www.auto.it/novita/volkswagen/2010/03/29-4516/iRide, l’auto elettrica di Apple e Volkswagen

iRide :lol

I found this on Webhallen, a Swedish online game store: the PS3 Scent

Cruel Fileplanet is cruel.

Even NASA is participating in this April fools stuff, but it's not really convincing :lol
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

I don't know if this count's as a joke, but I found it hilarious :lol

http://forums.sega.com/forumdisplay.php?f=44

Has this been posted?

Rock, Paper, Shotgun preview of Sam & Max Hit The Road.

Uhm
http://www.loltuga.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ifuck.jpg

They did one for X-Com as well

New Call of Duty:

Call of Duty: The Pain Cupboard
http://www.nowgamer.com/news/2849/activision-announces-new-cod-game

Timegate unveiled a new game!

Toro Station has a special episode today:

GRcade has become GleeRCADE :lol

Eurogamer have one buried in an article.

Also, Wikipedia's main headline is sort of gaming-related :lol

Not gaming related but I'll see you guys in 2040!

http://www.firebox.com/product/2671/DIY-Carbon-Freezing-Kit

Aprils fool, or viral campaign? Something about a new announcement for PS3 coming: click.
Google translate version here

one has already arrived
http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100000922

and 2 more http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/community/merchandise/gps/index.xml
and http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/community/merchandise/gamerblanket/index.xml

Saturn’s Mimas now Property of Namco Bandai

CAG (Cheap Ass Gamer) has a really nice one:

If you're logged in, the first news story on the front page is going to say that [username] has been scamming people. Honestly, it really freaked me the fuck out, and I needed a minute or two to get my bearings straight.

Steam and Valve present: iM

http://translate.google.it/translat...li/76039-gioco-quindi-iosono.html&sl=it&tl=en

They got loads more:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/my-first-bacon.shtml
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/unicorn-meat.shtml
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/monolith-action-figure.shtml
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/moodinq-tattoo.shtml

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/equipmentpotency.xml

Those with sufficiently large numbers can earn in-game rewards such as a permanent bonus to "need" rolls, the ability to cut to the front of the queue in the Dungeon Finder, a larger ignore list, a much shorter dungeon deserter debuff, or -- if your number is exceedingly impressive -- a new non-combat pet, Binky the Mechano-Rooster.

As usual, 4 color rebellion's joke is hilarious.

A new, hilarious trailer of La-Mulana WiiWare! Only those who've already played the game may understand it though.

In the front page of the blog there's also a weird La-Mulana/Rose&Camellia crossover picture.

Not exactly an April Fools joke, but it could be used to play one (and I find it hilarious): The Mega Man 2 program loader. It loads whatever program you click on with the Mega Man 2 boss intro screen and music -- http://www.angelfire.com/games5/loremipsum/MegaMan/megamaneffect.html

I can't believe I've never seen this before.

EDIT: PS:: I'm at work and can't download this to check it. I have no idea if it's full of viruses or anything. Sorry!

http://www.wowarmory.com/

They've updated character models and info on the WoW Armory. :lol

I don't know about you guys, but I'm pretty excited to try Razer Venom :lol

I'm using it under Chrome and as each tab is a new "task", I get the intro every CtrlT.

This is hilarious for now but I think I'll want to kill myself in a few minutes :lol



EDIT : Oh and by the way Blizzard, FUCK YOU HARD FOR GAMES THAT I WANT SO BAD AND THAT WILL NEVER EXIST

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/mobile/

:'(

I've never played or even heard of Blackthorne, but I want this.

The Deckard Cain X-Treme Gamer Blanket is awesome. http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/community/merchandise/gamerblanket/index.xml

Love that she is holding the book upside down. :lol

Alan Wake Wars :lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db1khCoK9pg

Halo Movie Series - Debut Trailer Oh my god. Looks more real than that fake Zelda movie trailer.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/secret-romance-mass-effect/63942 - Secret Mass Effect romance scene

Kotaku's one
http://kotaku.com/5506747/announcing-koticku

Negative Gamer is Taking Legal Action Against Evony

Amused me because I have sadly kept up a bit on the whole Evony issues.

Gmail Vowel Outage

Blizzard apparently wasn't done:
http://us.battle.net/matchmaking.html

www.battle.net

Another small thing for Youtube uploaders while your newly uploaded video is getting processed:

Posted?

http://www.edge-online.com/news/yamauchi-karts-not-ford-kas

Tales of Graces coming to America in 2011.
http://www.rpgamer.com/news/Q1-2010/033110c.html

Xenoblade ties to Xenogears and Xenosaga.
http://www.rpgamer.com/news/Q2-2010/040110a.html

Runescape Theme Park to open in UK:
http://services.runescape.com/m=news/c=43hpmquCSqQ/newsitem.ws?id=2817
I chuckled.

Toshiba Tubetop

http://laptops.toshiba.com/tubetop

At http://www.reddit.com/

Every user is an admin for the day....

Capcom vs SNK3, Blackthorn 2, Portable Virtual Console with Gal Fighters option, Ace Attorney Saga .....

This is a very sad but awesome april fools xD

OK Destructoid's is pretty cool, they're doing up their comments system.

New Halo: Reach ViDoc.

http://www.funnyordie.com/

is now Bieber or die.

OCRemix presents The Remixanator:



http://ocremix.org/

:lol it's pretty fun to mess around with it

Not sure if posted, but here is Star Wars The Old Republic's
http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/classes/sarlacc-enforcer :lol

The Blizzard Matchmaking was the best; video with that was so awesome - gif's a plenty here.

http://www.astrogaming.com/products/detail/90/G20-Gaming-Goggles/

No laugh's, but think it was pretty funny photos ^^

I think this is pretty good from 1up

http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/28723

Havent seen anyone comment on Wikipedia's Main Page yet. :lol :lol

This was valve-related. Pretty amazing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjGrHBpfqCo

Please make that permanent.

A student publication at my school has a pretty cute joke. Some of the headlines are great.

Probably old, but I'm lazy:

http://consoleo.pl/newsflash/46/719.html

Was this posted?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4DHllroiqM&feature=player_embedded pretty funny anyway

This is from Cerberus Daily News at the title screen of Mass Effect 2. Text copied from http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/

I'm calling this fake...

http://ps3.gamespy.com/playstation-3/god-of-war-iii/1080780p1.html

Guild Wars Skill Updates.

Highlights:

Vengeful Was Khanhei: changed functionality to: "While you hold Khanhei's ashes, skills used on you are interrupted, but are allowed to finish when you drop his ashes. This skill is the best item spell of all time. OF ALL TIME."

Durability
Weapons and armor now have durability. Durability decreases whenever you take damage or use a skill. When the durability for an item reaches 0, that item is destroyed. Repair Kits (100 uses) are available from the Guild Wars In-Game Store.

Hard Mode Adjustments
Now called Hard-Core Mode.
All player deaths in Hard-Core Mode are permanent.
Permanently dead characters can still log in, but they may only visit the Underworld map and cannot trade, access account storage, or interact with merchants.

Along with the Deathsmiles LE, Aksys is also release the BDSM ÜBER EDITION for just $299.99! http://www.aksysgames.com/2010/04/01/deathsmiles-bdsm-uber-edition/

Healthcare For Video games
http://www.destructoid.com/president-obama-brings-health-care-to-videogames-169564.phtml

sorry if old, just saw this on PoliGAF

$30 Limited Edition Deadly Premonition coming

Another one on Destructoid

http://www.destructoid.com/civilization-v-getting-extreme-diplomacy-mode-169621.phtml



Civilization V Getting Extreme Diplomacy Mode

Phantom Dust 2 To Be Revealed At E3!

:lol

Yeah, weak one.

I just ran into a 2006 april fool's article on Gamespot which gave a prediction about the console market in 2010. It's actually more accurate then any prediction done by 'real' analysts. :lol

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6146958.html?page=4

Microsoft buys Nintendo

Here's the Ima Hogg entry, actually from 2008:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/April_1,_2008

Also of note, the wholly factual featured article blurb from 2007, on George Washington:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/April_1,_2007

Sorry if old...but :lol

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=00-000-033

Yep.

Martin Van Buren links to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Van_Buren_(1839)

Tickle Cock is in fact a bridge, which the council were looking to rename: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle_Cock_Bridge

The foot powder? Try Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/footpowder.asp

Telltale announced the latest platform they're releasing Tales of Monkey Island for:

http://www.telltalegames.com/community/blogs/id-598

Includes screenshots!

I suspect I can't post links, given the subject matter, but I will say that one of the big names in amateur translation has released a patch for the Japanese version of Tactics Ogre on the SNES which translates it...

...into Al Bhed.

Yeah, I suck at compilation threads. If I ever get it into my mind to do another one, please hit me very painfully.

That's all there is for now. Once again, sorry for the lateness, blame Battlefield. Yes.

That's the best thing to blame.

 

[Gomu Gomu]

This is gonna be a good year.

 

[Bentendo]

I can't wait for all the fake Pokémon species to be revealed.

 

[WillyFive]

It will be interesting to see this year's batch.

My favorites are the ones you don't know are pranks.

Stuff like Altair on MGS4 is not good for me.

 

[Haunted]

I for one won't believe anything I'm reading tomorrow.

 

[Gomu Gomu]

It will be interesting to see this year's batch.

My favorites are the ones you don't know are pranks.

Stuff like Altair on MGS4 is not good for me.

So you riked it?

 

[Complex Shadow]

 

[SovanJedi]

Blizzard, don't let me down.

 

[Brannon]

I don't care what anyone says, Gamepro's Lamepro was the best, nay, the king.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

http://www.giantbomb.com/i-love-mondays-032910/17-2250/

 

[Darklord]

Blizzard, don't let me down.

This is what I thought. I love the aftermath as well demanding they actually include the april fools into their games.:lol

 

[Like the hat?]

i hate the internet on april fools day.

 

[spats]

Blizzard has the best ones bar none. Can't wait to see what they come up with.

 

[Raide]

Blizzard has the best ones bar none. Can't wait to see what they come up with.

I love the fact that they spread it across all their games. I expect, nay demand some WoW, SC2 and Diablo goodies.

 

[syoaran]

I'm still a-wanting the Tauren marine in-game....

 

[LQX]

Does this take the fun out of April fools? Part of what makes it special is not knowing you have been fooled.

 

[BurritoBoy]

Does this take the fun out of April fools? Part of what makes it special is not knowing you have been fooled.

Depends on if your idea of fun is getting banned from NeoGaf

 

[Shadow Red]

The biggest April's fool joke for me involved one of those JP Family games on the Wiiware. Sure they have Family Golf, Family Pirate Party, Family Card Game...but then came Family Dating Sim and I swear I almost believed it.

 

[Yoshichan]

Blizzard!!

 

[Pennybags]

I love to read April Fool's articles on my birthday.

 

[RedNumberFive]

God I hate April Fools Day!

 

[Huevos de Oro]

I am here only to state my profound dislike for April Fool's day.

 

[Fox Mulder]

my favorite recent one wasn't gaming related, but hilarious anyways. Car and Driver claimed Obama was forcing GM out of NASCAR, and the people here in the North Carolina flipped shit when it got spread around the various country music stations. Even the local evening news had to explain that it was a joke, since so many people were calling in to complain.

 

[gerg]

my favorite recent one wasn't gaming related, but hilarious anyways. Car and Driver claimed Obama was forcing GM out of NASCAR, and the people here in the North Carolina flipped shit when it got spread around the various country music stations. Even the local evening news had to explain that it was a joke, since so many people were calling in to complain.

The best April Fool's joke I've read was about apples being grown with barcodes on their skin.

 

[Pennybags]

The best April Fool's joke I've read was about apples being grown with barcodes on their skin.

Do you happen to have a link?

 

[gerg]

Do you happen to have a link?

I'm sorry, but I can't seem to find one. The story ran quite a while ago, iirc.

 

[Brannon]

Until the game sites get their projects up, here be flying penguins!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kvWS1XwCMM

 

[TheThunder]

World of Starcraft

Coming 2014

 

[EmCeeGramr]

i just wanted to point out that dragona's sticky shows her old tag until you mouse over it

 

[Majine]

Big hopes for Blizzard. They take this shit seriously.

 

[FoxSpirit]

God I hate April Fools Day!

What, got pranked badly? Because Blizzard rules come April st

 

[Johnanderson]

IGN was awesome last year with that Zelda: The movie trailer

 

[rSpooky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7HfTS_Q8fA

Lets all celebrate how the Mighty Geuzen conquered "den Briel" and kick the Duke of Alba's Ass!

 

[Gomu Gomu]

Until the game sites get their projects up, here be flying penguins!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kvWS1XwCMM

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Einbroch]

A company needs to reveal a major game on April Fools Day, only to have it not be a joke.

Everyone will claim shenanigans. Then the website will still be up April 2nd, and people will be confused. Then April 3rd the company will put out a press release saying the game is real, and GAF will explode.

 

[Tarin02543]

3DS.

 

[OMG Aero]

A company needs to reveal a major game on April Fools Day, only to have it not be a joke.

Everyone will claim shenanigans. Then the website will still be up April 2nd, and people will be confused. Then April 3rd the company will put out a press release saying the game is real, and GAF will explode.

I think Twisted Pixel did this with Splosion Man. They released the name of the game and said what it was about and gaming blogs thought it was all a joke.

 

[V_Ben]

A company needs to reveal a major game on April Fools Day, only to have it not be a joke.

Everyone will claim shenanigans. Then the website will still be up April 2nd, and people will be confused. Then April 3rd the company will put out a press release saying the game is real, and GAF will explode.

Sony did that with Jak and Daxter: the lost frontier last year, IIRC. maybe they'll reveal a game this year too :lol

 

[alba]

Blizzard, don't let me down.

The only worthy ones!

 

[Carl]

Alternatively, those sites that make you concentrate on some picture before scaring the crap out of you? They, too, can go here until that hallowed Thursday. (you have been warned)

Fucking hate those things

 

[Tunesmith]

IGN was awesome last year with that Zelda: The movie trailer

That was 2008.

 

[Wrekt]

This is what I thought. I love the aftermath as well demanding they actually include the april fools into their games.:lol

I still await the Bard class.

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

so called xbox 360 slim scoop aka the HD-dvd player add-on pic....
http://www.gamekings.tv/index/nieuws/primeur-x360-slim-gespot/

 

[twinturbo2]

If anyone pulls anything cute like making an announcement for an XBLA port of Rush 2049 on April Fools Day, I'll drop a car on your sorry little head.

 

[bistromathics]

This is what I thought. I love the aftermath as well demanding they actually include the april fools into their games.:lol

tinker says hai

 

[bistromathics]

I still await the Bard class.

in which game? cuz you know there was one in the D1 expansion, right?

 

[_Bro]

Can't wait for the open SC2 beta splooging tomorrow. Oh how vicious this day could be.

 

[StealthGoblin]

The BBC years ago (1957) put out a program about growing spaghetti trees. Loads of people rang in asking for seeds or advice. It was on one of the Panorama program, probably one of the most serious programs on the network.

Gold.

As for gaming pranks, I'm not a fan. What I hate more is real news being thrown in alongside it.

 

[NathanMcMahon]

The one that got me the most was Mushroom Kingdom Hearts in EGM. Goddamn I was so psyched for that shit...

 

[Carl]

The BBC years ago (1957) put out a program about growing spaghetti trees. Loads of people rang in asking for seeds or advice. It was on one of the Panorama program, probably one of the most serious programs on the network.

Gold.

As for gaming pranks, I'm not a fan. What I hate more is real news being thrown in alongside it.

Yeah, heard that one before, awesome.