BRACKETApril Fool's 2015BRACKET I guess we're doing this again? Pac-Man maps is fun though

cloudeagle

Well, it's time for companies to announce this year's crop of April Fool's stuff. What will be great? What will be lame? Why are we still doing this?

Ah well. I guess we shouldn't complain too much, since Google's first salvo is putting Pac-Man into Google Maps. Just click the Pac-Man icon on the bottom right to turn what you're looking at into a playable Pac-Man maze. Twisty streets and over-designed subdivisions make for great ones.

Capcom brings us Dog Ace Attorney. Dogs are funny, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TayVCvUCImM

Post your other finds here.

BRIAN BLESSED

I see what you people are doing here right at this moment. I am wise to these antics.

... I am, right?

Sterica

Heroes of the Storm has Big Head Mode turned on, and they're offering a life-sized Protoss starship if you preorder Legacy of the Void.

Sceptre

BRIAN BLESSED wrote: »

I see what you people are doing here right at this moment. I am wise to these antics.

... I am, right?

Consider me mildly aggravated.

Quantum Knight

It's not video game related, per se, but IGN has an "announcement" of a new Back to the Future movie that crosses over with Fast and the Furious to be "Fast to the Future".

Astale

Sceptre wrote: »

BRIAN BLESSED wrote: »

I see what you people are doing here right at this moment. I am wise to these antics.

... I am, right?

Consider me mildly aggravated.

I don't consider that a joke so much as a prank.

And honestly, I'm still not sure that it's not just vanilla being fucking awful like usual. (I miss the old forums format)

HallowedFaith

Haha, I think it's hilarious.

Sterica

Astale wrote: »

Sceptre wrote: »

BRIAN BLESSED wrote: »

I see what you people are doing here right at this moment. I am wise to these antics.

... I am, right?

Consider me mildly aggravated.

I don't consider that a joke so much as a prank.

And honestly, I'm still not sure that it's not just vanilla being fucking awful like usual. (I miss the old forums format)

Icy understands that it's hard transitioning to a new forum in just four years, and he will be adding a new feature where the forum will randomly be down for a month and just have spotty stability in general for that classic PA forum feel!

SmokeStacks

Bobkins Flymo wrote: »

Icy understands that it's hard transitioning to a new forum in just four years, and he will be adding a new feature where the forum will randomly be down for a month and just have spotty stability in general for that classic PA forum feel!

500: Internal Oh Snap Error

Icemopper

Bobkins Flymo wrote: »

Astale wrote: »

Sceptre wrote: »

BRIAN BLESSED wrote: »

I see what you people are doing here right at this moment. I am wise to these antics.

... I am, right?

Consider me mildly aggravated.

I don't consider that a joke so much as a prank.

And honestly, I'm still not sure that it's not just vanilla being fucking awful like usual. (I miss the old forums format)

Icy understands that it's hard transitioning to a new forum in just four years, and he will be adding a new feature where the forum will randomly be down for a month and just have spotty stability in general for that classic PA forum feel!

Wait, it hasn't been four years on Vanilla already, has it?

Sterica

Four years this summer

I needed anime to post.

i am like, legitimately grumpy that the april fools 2015 badge is the same joke as the april fools 2014 badge

Sterica

This isn't actually a complain about the forums thread

Peewi

Humble Bundle is offering a bunch of classic games with Humble Indie Ballyhoo.

I needed a gnome to post. wrote: »

i am like, legitimately grumpy that the april fools 2015 badge is the same joke as the april fools 2014 badge

I never considered the possibility that there not being an image for it could be a joke.

Undead Scottsman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfXWe5gyakM

Renzo

I would absolutely watch Fast to the Future.

PLA

Too fast, too future.

Beltaine

Steam XXX should be an actual thing.

Also, not gaming related, but cute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAfllX7akKA

Burnage

Due to a typing error during programming, cast on hit effects in Path of Exile have temporarily become cats on hit;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQGbx_1AiVA

Dying Light has gotten strange awesome;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1cUe3Cvk28&has_verified=1

SUPERHOT has been ported to Quake;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciBgg-Fuf0o

DiannaoChong

RPS had a story run yesterday about a multiplayer first person mod in development for Cities skylines. I was guessing it's a april fools joke.

nusu

WoW has introduced T.I.N.D.R. for your garrison followers:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/18486737/new-garrison-feature-tindr-for-followers-4-1-2015

Skull2185

Not game related, but I had a section show up on Netflix that was something like "Recently viewed by Tobias Funke". Stuff like a movie called I Don't Want to be A Man, documentaries that I think were about homosexual stuff, Master of Disguise, and an ocean nature documentary called Into the Blue.

cloudeagle

PlayStation Flow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bPUaLpNcMY

Agri Birds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnWYDPRyrV0

Tekken X Lords of Vermillion, with 765 playable characters:

Somestickguy

Harmonix presents...

Romance Central!

http://www.harmonixmusic.com/romance-central/

Somestickguy

Foefaller

Guild Wars 2 has introduced Airplane mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjs8F03MOYc

Mugsley

Amazon has "1999 mode" on their front page, which then reverts to the normal site when you click anywhere. They are offering the Dash Button; and I can't tell if it's an actual thing. Dear God, I hope not.

Lawndart

Mugsley wrote: »

Amazon has "1999 mode" on their front page, which then reverts to the normal site when you click anywhere. They are offering the Dash Button; and I can't tell if it's an actual thing. Dear God, I hope not.

By all accounts the Amazon Dash Button is a real, actual thing that will exist, despite it's debut around April Fool's Day.

In retrospect, I think the Amazon Fire Phone should have been announced around the same time of year so Jeff Bezos could have gone "Just kidding! Gotcha!" a few months later.

nusu

Bungie's contribution this year is dancing Guardians on your legend>gear page

Dehumanized

Yeah, the Amazon Dash button is real and also incredibly silly.

SniperGuy

Dehumanized wrote: »

Yeah, the Amazon Dash button is real and also incredibly silly.

I like the amazon ordering you can do where you can schedule products. Like, every month I run out of TP at the same time? Well now I get a box of TP from amazon the day before autocharging my card and everything.

This is nice because you can press the button when you notice and not have to worry "oh we have too much now because we used less than expected." No idea if it'll catch on, especially since it's battery powered.

Sterica

Payday 2 had a fake character DLC called the "Collector's Pack" which featured the character "Cash Catchem" and allowed you to capture police in a new cube item.

Lars

The best part is the totally-not-the-Pokemon-theme music that they created for that.

Arthil

SniperGuy wrote: »

Dehumanized wrote: »

Yeah, the Amazon Dash button is real and also incredibly silly.

I like the amazon ordering you can do where you can schedule products. Like, every month I run out of TP at the same time? Well now I get a box of TP from amazon the day before autocharging my card and everything.

This is nice because you can press the button when you notice and not have to worry "oh we have too much now because we used less than expected." No idea if it'll catch on, especially since it's battery powered.

Except that I'm envisioning a kid just hammering that button over, and over, and over...

Undead Scottsman

Arthil wrote: »

SniperGuy wrote: »

Dehumanized wrote: »

Yeah, the Amazon Dash button is real and also incredibly silly.

I like the amazon ordering you can do where you can schedule products. Like, every month I run out of TP at the same time? Well now I get a box of TP from amazon the day before autocharging my card and everything.

This is nice because you can press the button when you notice and not have to worry "oh we have too much now because we used less than expected." No idea if it'll catch on, especially since it's battery powered.

Except that I'm envisioning a kid just hammering that button over, and over, and over...

You can cancel the orders before they ship out.

Handgimp

Undead Scottsman wrote: »

Arthil wrote: »

SniperGuy wrote: »

Dehumanized wrote: »

Yeah, the Amazon Dash button is real and also incredibly silly.

I like the amazon ordering you can do where you can schedule products. Like, every month I run out of TP at the same time? Well now I get a box of TP from amazon the day before autocharging my card and everything.

This is nice because you can press the button when you notice and not have to worry "oh we have too much now because we used less than expected." No idea if it'll catch on, especially since it's battery powered.

Except that I'm envisioning a kid just hammering that button over, and over, and over...

You can cancel the orders before they ship out.

And successive pushes will not place an order until the first one has shipped.