April Fools stuff

Peewi

Uber Entertainment, the creators of Monday Night Combat shows off a new game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_gpl8dwuuk

Delzhand

Gmail just got me good - the Gmail Motion Beta purports to use your webcam in the manner of a kinect, allowing you to navigate Gmail with gestures.

I was sorta excited about it.

Werewolf2000ad

The Shinji Mikami action figure.

RainbowDespair

http://zeboyd.com/2011/04/01/final-fantasy-xiii-remake-press-release/

Zeboyd Games (Breath of Death VII: The Beginning, Cthulhu Saves the World) is proud to announce their upcoming RPG, the Final Fantasy XIII remake for the XBox Live Indie Games platform.

“Although Final Fantasy XIII was one of the most highly respected games a year or two before its release, even the most diehard Final Fantasy fans today agree that it hasn’t aged well,” said Zeboyd Games founder, Robert Boyd. “We at Zeboyd Games are excited to be a part of the effort to bring this game up to modern standards of pacing, gameplay, story, and general non-suckiness.”

“Sure, it will be difficult to get all the content in under 50MB limit, but thanks to our experience with the Crystal Stick Figure engine that Zeboyd Games pioneered in Molly the Were-Zompire, we feel up to the task.”

“As the artist and level designer on the team,” says Bill Stiernberg (the artist and level designer on the team), “I can assure you that the graphics under the Stick Figure Engine will produce high quality, high def Stick Figure iterations of your favorite FFXIII characters. The game maps have been successfully ported as well, as there was very little lost in the translation to the straight and narrow aspects of the Stick Figure engine.”

The Final Fantasy XIII remake will be released approximately 6 months after Zeboyd Games says it will. Suggested price is 80 MS points or $1 USD.

Bursar

Someone thinks Atlus/ACE Team are stealing his game. They're not even remotely similar!

Salvation122

World of Warcraft patch 4.1.11 notes are up.

Elvenshae

Are you a real gamer? If so, prove it here.

Delzhand

Elvenshae wrote: »

Are you a real gamer? If so, prove it here.

ha ha, jesus

7/22

I got glaive-guisarme right but I got spear wrong

Fig-D

Ha, 9/22 and I also got spear wrong.

FyreWulff

1911 button isn't available on all videos.. if it's like the text one, the video has to be processed for the alternate version, so they only do popular ones first and then process ones people are actually viewing.

rRootagea

Rock of Ages something I guess?

Elldren

Elvenshae wrote: »

Are you a real gamer? If so, prove it here.

17/22

first try

didn't look a thing up

I'm not sure if I should be proud of this

Satsumomo

Peewi wrote: »

Satsumomo wrote: »

3DFX VOODOO 590 TO BE RELEASED

Spoiler:

Holy fuck that site has a really creepy background image.

I believe you never owned a Voodoo 5 then?

That was the box art. The late 90's fuck yes!

Foefaller

Elldren wrote: »

Elvenshae wrote: »

Are you a real gamer? If so, prove it here.

17/22

first try

didn't look a thing up

I'm not sure if I should be proud of this

That you correctly identified 17 different weapons used to kill people? I would would think you should be proud!

Shadowfire

Replacement glasses for 3DS..

FyreWulff

Halo Chess is now a real gametype made by Bungie.





Download the gametype:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=15992988

Download a compatible map (only works on Forgeworld made
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=15992964

Holy shit.

Hahnsoo1

A clever math teacher made an April Fool's presentation for his class:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP4fWMLofvo

Qualcomm does an April Fool's video every year. This year's isn't as funny as their Wolfpigeons/Sharkfalcons one, but I love the background scene in 1:15:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3f-OoUG1xw

On Follw.it, every user now has a Futurama Brain Slug on their head.

Big Classy

The math teacher does one every year.

Reznik

Elvenshae wrote: »

Are you a real gamer? If so, prove it here.

18/22

I'm gonna blame Diablo II for this.

Hahnsoo1

Reznik wrote: »

Elvenshae wrote: »

Are you a real gamer? If so, prove it here.

18/22

I'm gonna blame Diablo II for this.

I love some of the multiple choice answers. For example, for the Bill weapon:
bill
william
billy
willy
will

Also the Bohemian Ear Spoon, Bohemian Backscratcher, and Coast Guard Spork. I think I'll have to add the Coast Guard Spork to one of my fantasy RPGs someday.

Xaviar

xkcd's entire archive is now in 3d. (move the cursor around over the comic, also feel free to hit previous or random. All the strips are done)

Awesome.

Zython

Don't know if this has been posted yet (judging by the OP, it has not). New WoW Patch Notes.
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Edit: Seems it WAS mentioned. Disregard, then.

Xaviar wrote: »

xkcd's entire archive is now in 3d. (move the cursor around over the comic, also feel free to hit previous or random. All the strips are done)

Awesome.

I thought that was only for the recent one. Awesome.

Shadowfire

The U.S. Department of Commerce website can be destroyed today. Konami code antics ahoy!

anoffday

Apparently Gamestop is selling a game called Fightin Frogs today for low price of $9,000.01

Someone at Gamestop has a horrible sense of humor.

JAEF

anoffday wrote: »

Apparently Gamestop is selling a game called Fightin Frogs today for low price of $9,000.01

Someone at Gamestop has [strike]a horrible[/strike] an amazing sense of humor.

This was a 4chan (I want to say?) troll thing where they'd give a number to a gamestop/target/etc. and have people call them asking if they had Battletoads for 360 (or whatever current system.)

It's pretty good.

anoffday

Well what's with the $9,000.01 price?

Bursar

It's just over 9000!

Edit: don't let the exclamation point fool you into believing that I get amusement out of reiterating a meme from a show I never cared about.

Drakeon

anoffday wrote: »

Well what's with the $9,000.01 price?

I assume it's over 9000.

anoffday

I still don't get it.

Icemopper

"It's over 9000!" is an internet meme that grew famous after Dragon Ball Z used it in an episode as some kind of "Holy crap he is powered up over the 9000th level" or something.

I'm not positive on that, I'd google "over 9000" if I were you, I shoul dnot be truste.d

This is the origin, here you go.

Well not origin, but something like that.

anoffday

I need to be a better nerd.

Elldren

Hahnsoo1 wrote: »

Reznik wrote: »

Elvenshae wrote: »

Are you a real gamer? If so, prove it here.

18/22

I'm gonna blame Diablo II for this.

I love some of the multiple choice answers. For example, for the Bill weapon:
bill
william
billy
willy
will

Also the Bohemian Ear Spoon, Bohemian Backscratcher, and Coast Guard Spork. I think I'll have to add the Coast Guard Spork to one of my fantasy RPGs someday.

Bohemian Ear Spoon is an actual polearm.

TheOtherHorseman

anoffday wrote: »

I need to be a better nerd.

That is the best any of us can aspire to.

PaperLuigi44

Quoting this from the CoD thread. Xbox Ahoy is an awesome dude who does comprehensive weapon guides, but he's taken a different turn here.

GccPoseidon wrote: »

XboxAhoy put his new weapon guide up early. :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKeap6TbgKc

Rehab

Here is a pretty good roundup of all the bullshit, deceit, and lies from the other day.

1UP April Fools Pranks Round-Up

1up wrote:

Just like the pranks themselves, it's become a tradition each and every year to complain about the pranks and the ensuing confusion that results from trying to determine if Pokemon Kart Wii is real. In order to make sure you aren't falling into the trap of believing that you can play StarCraft with Kinect or can throw feces in Duke Nukem Forever (actually, we're not so sure about that one), we've compiled a list of this year's pranks (along with links) below. We'll be updating the story throughout the day to make sure you stay apprised of what's a prank and what's not. If we've missed any, feel free to drop a link in the comments to let us know. Enjoy!

The Pranks - Havens of Lies!

* Halo Dance Central Trailer
* StarCraft Coming to Kinect (Blizzard)
* A World of Warcraft Dungeon Helper (Blizzard)
* World of Warcraft's New Pitch-Black Dungeon (Blizzard)
* Diablo's Horadric Cube iPhone App (Blizzard)
* 3D Glasses for 3DS (Nyko)
* Harmonix Trades CEO in at GameStop (Harmonix)
* Portal 2 Single-Player Demo (FilePlanet)
* Star Wars: The Old Republic Translated for Wookiees (BioWare)
* King Arthur Headed to Vietnam (Paradox Interactive)
* An Unusual New Guild Wars 2 Profession (NCSoft)
* Copernicus Qwark's Very Own Game (Insomniac Games)
* Duke Nukem Forever Lets You Fling Feces (Gearbox Software)
* The New Social Network, My.Face (Splash Damage)
* The Killzone 3 Cloaked Edition (Guerrilla Games)
* Super Monkey Ball Now a Cube (Sega)
* Monday Night Combat as an Overhead Shooter (Uber Entertainment)
* The Witcher 2's Follow-Up, Two-Hour RPG (CD Projekt Red)
* Angry Birds Pork Rinds (ThinkGeek)
* "The Gold Edition" Line of Accessories (Astro Gaming)
* Resident Evil Creator Action Figure (Tango Gameworks)
* Minecraft Gets Microtransactions (Mojang)
* The First Gaming Bio-Exoskeleton (Razer)
* Forsaken World's Twilight Crossover (Perfect World)
* City of Heroes is Running Out of XP (NCSoft)
* Bungie's New Facebook Game (Bungie)
* The Million Dollar Controller (Evil Controllers)
* A New Total War Game Set 65 Million Years Ago (The Creative Assembly)
* Envelotech, the Truly Immersive Gaming Experience (Telltale Games)
* Gus Johnson the Permanent Voice of EA Sports, and More (4th String)
* The Handwritten Game Site (Destructoid)
* Chess Gets Patches (Rock, Paper, Shotgun)
* No Post-Game "GG" Earns StarCraft Players a Loss (Blizzard)
* Tilt to Live Easter (One Man Left)
* GameStop's Exclusive $9,000 Game (GameStop)
* The PlayWrite Gaming Tablet (Big Fish Games)
* #PotatoFoolsDay (Valve, et al)
* Control Your Pets with Pet Pal (Gameloft)

BONUS - Japanese Pranks!

* The 4.5 Ton Arcade Game (Taito)
* The 3D Adult Gaming Machine (Illusion)

I think that the comments section for the article has some that weren't included too.

Big Classy

RPS probably had the funniest prank alongside the sequel to The witcher 2 which I wish was a tall thing.