Collection of April fools jokes

[sqrage]

Post any April fools jokes you've found online here.

So far I've found the World of Warcraft one.
For the US and Europe.

Diablo 3 has the "Archivist" as the newly released class.
http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/archivist.xml

Then there's YouTube, where all the videos and information are upside down, along with this "Helpful" tutorial type thing.
http://www.youtube.com/t/new_viewing_experience

Then GMail has "Autopilot" Which replies to all your emails for you with computer AI.
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html

Any more anyone knows of?

 

[SFilip]

http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/cadie/
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/landing/cadie/

Also, ThePirateBay was bought by Warner Bros (read about here).

 

[Father_Yetti]

I think this one is much better and larger than life than the Archivist:
Terratron

However I do not like your thread title as these are not really 'jokes' as it makes me think of telling one so much as they are good pranks. I was half expecting to see a list of jokes or pranks to pull on people.

 

[DogOfHavoc]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/968/968383p1.html

Obviously a hoax.

 

[Father_Yetti]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/968/968383p1.html

Obviously a hoax.

Just the fact that they have photos of the game design document seems strange to me. Reminds me of that X-files with the alien autopsy where showing too much almost disproved the validity - like its trying to hard to say: hay this is really real - see we got photos to prove it!

 

[sqrage]

Hahah almost forgot, Newgrounds always does something.

http://www.newgrounds.com/
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1045019 Hilarious stuff

 

[Seb!]

A bunch of news places ran a story that Vanilla Ice was the new national poet laureate.. It was kind of obvious that they were kidding.

 

[Pineapple]

Best D3 class would have been Hell Bovine

 

[sqrage]

http://smellr.com/

Hahhaha

 

[MurderMode]

This april fools joke was from a few years back, but I can't forget it because it was so good. It was a steam update notice for counter-strike source, and considering I didn't get the message til around april 5th it had me wondering what the fuck was going on in the dev's heads (atleast until you get halfway through it and realise it is complete bs lol)

Spoiler

Friday, April 1 2005

An update is available for Counter-Strike: Source. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. This update addresses requests for more realism in Counter-Strike: Source. The changes are as follows:


Features/Additions
Doubled player speed when jumping. The effect to cumulative, so the more you jump, the faster you go.
Cut price of AWP by 50%.
Added akimbo Riot Shield to buy menu.
Removed de_dust from mapcycle.
Realism Enhancements:

Knives:
Between rounds, it is suggested that you unsheath the weapon and repeatedly press the attack key to air it out as the leather now collects moisture and creates pits on the blade, making it less effective in the next round.

Shotguns:
1. Firing the shotgun without ammo loaded will now cause it to jam.
2. When the shotgun jams, press F2 to fill out form DA-1823-00/A12-H8.
3. You should then hear a scribbling sound. When it stops, press F3 to send the request to LIDM.
4. Failure to do paperwork before pressing F3 will result in the immediate return of the unrepaired shotgun.
5. The repairs can take 1-2 rounds for completion. During that time, you cannot purchase a replacement firearm and may only use your sidearm or knife.

Player Models:
Several models now feature eyewear. This is a completely cosmetic enhancement with the following exceptions:

Part EP-7829-292-2 must be purchased and worn correctly at all times in order to see during the round.

In between rounds, you may purchase and use part EC-2231-833-H34 to clean your EP-7829-292-2. Note: that this does not clean the eyewear itself!

To clean the eyewear, you need to purchase and use the designated cleaner, EC-2231-233-H34, EC-2231-523-H34, or EC-2231-239-H34a respectively depending on your model's eyewear. You can determine the part # of the correct cleaner by asking someone.

Machine and submachine guns:

At least once every five rounds, press F1 to inspect the weapon:
A musical cue indicates that the inspection has started. Now press F1 again repeatedly to clean and lubricate the weapon.

Your Preventative Maintenance Status (either "cleaning" or "lubricating") is determined by the speed with which you press the F1 key and will be displayed above your head.

To accurately simulate real life maintenance mistakes, pressing F1 too quickly will lubricate either the bolt face or the trunnion block. Pressing F1 too slowly sprays lubricant directly into the buffer tube. All mistakes render the gun inoperable, though this may not become immediately apparent.

Experiment with keypress timing to avoid (and discover!) other common maintenance errors.

In order to balance the improved stopping power of a well-maintained weapon, the reloading process has been made much less reliable.

When reloading, you should listen for two or three distinct clicks over a period of several seconds.

If you hear one click or no clicks or more than two clicks, you've bent the link ejector chute and the gun will most likely explode on the next attempt to fire it, though it may not.

Blizzard april fool's jokes are good, but too expected now imo. They aren't april fools jokes as much as they are easter eggs for the fans. I liked the terra-tron for it's lul factor (damn you Micheal Bay!) this year but the rest of the stuff was pretty meh. I think next year they need to release something like an official game trailer and just throw in snippets of wtfmaterial throughout the trailer to get gamer's blood boiling. That would be cool