A Collection of April Fool's Pranks

divisionten

We all know what day it is today, and the Internet does, too. Let's see all the pranks we can find!

xkcd - Has done a prank every year, but today's is pretty impressive, although not as funny as the text-based parser imput (you could pet a kitty!) or the crossover they did with Dinosaur Comics. Randall turned all his comics into headache-inducing 3-D ones.

Jay Is Games - Last year, they tricked thousands into thinking there was a hidden game on the Zombocom website. This year, they reviewed a flash version of Tic-Tac-Toe as if it were a high-stakes RTS war game. Good times.

Found any more pranks?

Harald B

Kongregate is marking its cooperation with GameStop by letting you trade in flash games.

Google is lauding the superior qualities of Comic Sans and released a Chrome plugin to spread the goodness.

Goblins is being taken over by John Kovalic.

RetroVortex

http://www.gog.com/en/news/cd_projekt_red_new_project_announced

The scary thing is, I would buy that game.
And I would love it!

Harald B

More from Google: Google Translate for animals and real-life AdBlock.

puzzlebox

Google is also advertising Autocompleter positions ("Certificate in psychic reading strongly preferred"). Nice video interview.

The Gentleman

TF2 Wiki Fake update info involving cow weapons and the 10th class, the Demopan.

redakdal

gamefaqs.com is celebrating its 40th year and has a "awesome mode" also the poll of the day is about april game releases

youtube.com is claiming to be since 1911, and has a 1911 button instead of HD

DrRocketGenius

Google will also be launching GMail Motion.

GuruGuru214

Thinkgeek has the usual gathering of fake products and a free t-shirt. Every year for the past few years, they've ended up taking one April Fool's item and making it for real. This year, I'm betting on the Lightsaber Popsicles. There's also a contest to win either a Virtual Boy and $1000 shopping spree or a 3DS. The 3DS is second prize. They did the same thing last year with an Apple Newton and an iPad.

Last year, Woot turned their website into a choose your own adventure shopping experience, with about 25 items for sale and a complex system to reach all of them. This year, they're selling their Random Crap all day, but you have to clear level 4 of their flash game in order to earn the privilege to buy one.

And deviantArt has Trollfaces popping up on the screen randomly.

Oh, and why does everyone forget about Questionable Content in that xkcd prank? Dinosaur Comics was hosted on questionablecontent.net, QC was hosted on xkcd.com, and xkcd was hosted on qwantz.com.

FitzoliverJ

http://mixnmojo.com/news/Telltale-announces-games-based-on-every-licence-ever-except-Bone

corruptbiggins

The only one I've noticed today is not really linkable as it was on the radio but basically someone impersonated the host of a show this morning for the entire length of the program.

Debbie82

ProBoards becomes HappyBoards! That's an April Fools joke!

Alcoremortis

I got turned into a rabbit. Same with the rest of the BLINKYs.

Scnew

World of Warcraft's exciting new addition: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/dungeon-helper/

edit: lol. Crabby talks to you while you surf the website and will even link you to..... things.

BoneFreak

Destructoid is hand written, www.destructoid.com
And hulu is retro. www.hulu.com

Oh yeah, minecraft now has Steve Co. crates.

Harald B

Blizzard's also introducing the Horadric Cube app; combine other apps to create brand new apps! Translocation coming later.

BoneFreak

Google "Helvetica" or "Comic Sans"

And swagbucks has a joke www.swagbucks.com

Shauntron

Oh look what I found, hmm.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/01/april-fools-telltale-puts-you-in-the-game-with-envelotech/

RingmasterJ5

Steam put potatoes in these games: The Ball, BIT.TRIP BEAT, Toki Tori, Killing Floor, RUSH, Defense Grid, AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, Cogs, The Wonderful End of the World and Super Meat Boy.

nikasaur

http://us.toshiba.com/spectacle

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/

FitzoliverJ

http://samandmax.co.uk/2011/04/travellers-tales-to-develop-lego-sam-max-game/

coolsome

Whatevers on your mind closed

Klatuu

In other Telltale Forum shenanigans, the General Art Thread finally got stickied...The Legendary Disturbing Art Thread!!!

Remolay

Armorgames.com

If you log in everything is replaced with Justin Beiber, and the disable button links to, you guessed it, Friday. It also disables the Beiber thing.

Avistew

Klatuu wrote: »

In other Telltale Forum shenanigans, the General Art Thread finally got stickied...The Legendary Disturbing Art Thread!!!

Ah, I was wondering was the art in there was disappointingly not disturbing.

Chyron8472

http://imgur.com has an "Automatically Catify" option that enhances your images by superimposing a cat on top.

Chyron8472

I think the April Fools Joke I started last year was the best one I ever made, especially considering the whole Telltale Team hopped on the bandwagon about it.

Avistew

It was an awesome thread, I really enjoyed it.

Katsuro

Chyron8472 wrote: »

I think the April Fools Joke I started last year was the best one I ever made, especially considering the whole Telltale Team hopped on the bandwagon about it.

Sometimes, when the stars are aligned right, and we have all the props for the shooting of some cool commercial, things like that can happen

Gman5852

RingmasterJ5 wrote: »

Steam put potatoes in these games: The Ball, BIT.TRIP BEAT, Toki Tori, Killing Floor, RUSH, Defense Grid, AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, Cogs, The Wonderful End of the World and Super Meat Boy.

Also there is a pack for that which if you buy(its about 40 bucks) you get a potato hat in TF2.
Dispite there being some great games in there such as amnesia(or so Ive heard, but then again not a fan of horror games) Ill pass on this.