By Chris Kavan - 04/01/13 at 09:01 PM CT
Ah, the Internet was made for April Fools Day - whether it is the eminent death of YouTube or Google Nose - it's always a good day to check around. But what about video games? No worries - there is plenty of fun to go around to everyone - including gamers. Here is a rundown of some of the best that April Fools 2013 had to offer:
Capcom Announces "Super Duper" Street Fighter IV - This joke is super effective!
Reddit Buys Team Fortress 2 I think: "Our new system helps us allocate logistical synergy-based resources in over fifteen inter-dependent base clusters, creating a vortex of statistical momentum and creativity augmentation." - sums things quite nicely.
Blizzard Kidzz Where in Sanctuary is Deckard Cain? Zergling Teaches Typing? The Westfall Trail? Now those are the type of edutainment games we really do need.
Guild Wars 2 Goes Retro This is cool because it's actually going to be live - at least for the month of April - so it's not so much a joke as a throwback - extra points for ArenaNet on this one.
Valve Introduces Half-Life 4... for Linux For all you hardcore nerds out there - this one is for you. But it was quickly taken down and offered this explanation an alternate universe where Linux is the king of gaming operating systems? Good thing Fringe didn't visit that reality.
Toshiba Announces the Shibasphere I especially like the Logical Aggression Monitoring because I am an angry, angry short man.
GameFAQ's Poll This one hits close to home considering my last blog entry.
Football Manager 1888 It doesn't get any better than Victorian-era football!
Journey's Rocket Death Match DLC What can make one of the most acclaimed games even better? Why, the ability to shoot beautiful, poetic rockets.
TellTale Games Poker Night 2 Claptrap and GlaDOS in the same game? Head explodes.
And finally, because just about everyone around here (except me) still plays Dungeon Defenders religiously:
Dungeon Defenders Kart Racing Although something like that may get me interested in the game again...
Feel free to share any other April Fools links around the interwebs that you find amusing and/or rage inducing. Because nothing is as funny as making people mad as hell.
Comments
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/05/13 at 12:00 PM CT
The April Fool jokes just keep getting lamer and lamer each year.
Nick - wrote on 04/01/13 at 09:39 PM CT
The Shibasphere and Dungeon Defenders Karting are the best ones.
