DaveC Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Hey i was wondering if any of you fine people came across any good news events that were an April fools joke this year?? My buddy is a news whore who likes to think he's well read on whats going on in the world and I would love to get him with a news story that seems credible..but is totally not!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris The Rock Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 April's EGM said that anyone who pre-ordered the new Legend Of Zelda game for Gamecube would receive a disc with a re-release of The Wind Waker done in the graphic style of the new game, including 2 dungeons not available in the original release. At first I thought, Oh, sweet....maybe I'll re-buy the GameCube...then I realized that EGM is famous for their April Fool's jokes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Take a look at Gamespot's front page news articles... :rotflmao Mario blamed for turtle incident Woo to direct Katamari Damacy movie starring The Rock EA announcement: Medal of Honor Street EA locks exclusive Curling Federation License...Take Two fires back by securing Croquet rights Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChoiceStriker Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Whoa - that Katamari gag was in the April Game Informer's "Game Infarcer" section. I can't remember who they said was directing, but they said Nicolas Cage was starring and had a VERY similar picture to GameSpot's. I know it's not really such a unique idea, but that issue of GI came out weeks ago... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Wouldn't suprise me. The one that gets the most laugh out of me is the turtle pic in the Mario gag article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary P Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Apple Introduces and then pulls iPotty Also, if you go into Google mail while not logged in, they have a news snippet about increasing each users capacity to infinity +1 Edit: Google is apparently upping the gmail accounts to 2 gigs (that part is not a joke...I think) Edit2: Thinkgeek.com is now shipping Xbox2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRon Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Apple Introduces and then pulls iPotty Also' date=' if you go into Google mail while not logged in, they have a news snippet about increasing each users capacity to infinity +1[img']http://lcvg.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif[/img] Edit: Google is apparently upping the gmail accounts to 2 gigs (that part is not a joke...I think) Saw that....tricky google people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 :rock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChoiceStriker Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Hehe, I like how ThinkGeek made the XBox 2 image non-clickable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan FB Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Google Gulp. The FAQ is hilarious. This one was the first one to get me when I was first checking my news feeds and didn't yet realize it was April Fools: GNOME 2.12 to have compulsory payments Planet GNOME and Planet KDE worked together to swap places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 TreoCentral's Apple in plans to buy PalmOne. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 For a cooking thread I was going to talk about making the perfect Sub, like I make when ever Jeff comes to vist. Which involves a trip to Subway. But they wouldn't let me take pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foogledricks Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 Bungie has a new game they're working on! http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=whaaa&p=2865975 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 I liked the previous April Fool's thing Bungie did with Pimps at Sea. This year they did the "easter eggs" for Halo 2 MP: http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=mpeggs "Turn down the suck!" :lmfao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted April 3, 2005 Report Share Posted April 3, 2005 Best of them (though I only saw it today) was the Steam update message when I started the PC up. Including a half-price sale on the AWP, speedup bonuses for repeated jumping, Akimbo Riot Shields and so on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJames Posted April 3, 2005 Report Share Posted April 3, 2005 I believe this is one from a year or two ago. CNN Live Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted April 3, 2005 Report Share Posted April 3, 2005 I believe this is one from a year or two ago. CNN Live As soon as I heard the "mayor" I thought Captain Janks strikes again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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