April Fools’ Day 2011 Compilation
All the fake stories in one place.
It’s the worst day of the year! A bad time to be on the internet, today is when all your gaming hopes and dreams seemingly become apparent, only to fade away into fiction four minutes later. So, rather than create an influx of ‘April Fools’ Watch’ posts, we’re compiling them all right here.
We don’t want you getting excited over announcements that will never materialize. We know the feeling.
Added 7:02pm:
- Capcom Rebooting Resident Evil; Outsourcing to Quantum Theory Developer Team Tachyon
- Rare Fan Site, RareWitchProject, Becomes MineCraftWitchProject Due to Rare’s “Slow Descent Into Oblivion”
Added 5:59pm:
- Mega Man Legends 3 Cancelled; Capcom Announce Mega Man Reboot In Development at Activision’s Sledgehammer Studio
- Twisted Pixel Teams Up With Home Depot for The Gunstringer [PDF]
Added 4:40pm:
- Atlus’ Very-Similar-To-Rock-of-Ages Pebble of Time
- Evil Controllers’ Blinged Out Million Dollar Xbox 360 Controller
- Final Fantasy VII: Errant Civilization Announced for PS3
- GameStop’s Fake Game, Fightin’ Frogs, on Sale for $9,001.00
- Miyamoto Resigns from Nintendo To Pursue Music Career
- Spartan Making His Way Into Xbox 360 Version of Mortal Kombat
- Street Fighter V: Ultra Edition Announced
- Uwe Boll On For Next Silent Hill Film
- Valve to Buy Rare from Microsoft
Added 1:20pm:
- MonkeyPaw Games Announces BurgerTime with Burger King’s “The King”
- Mortal Kombat Trilogy Arcade Board found on eBay
Added 12:50pm:
- Monday Night Combat Devs Announced Smash MNC for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox 720, Wii HD, 4DS, iOS, NeoGeo and Virtual Boy
- Square Enix Acquires Ar Tonelico Developer Gust Corporation
- World of Warcraft’s Tomb of Immortal Darkness
Added 11:55am:
- Bungie Announces PimpsVille for Facebook
- Microsoft Planning Xbox 360/Kinect Hybrid
- Ms. Pac-Man Fever Album Coming to Rock Band
Added 11:10am:
- Prototype 2 ‘Heller’ Cologne, A New Fragrance To “Consume The Ladies” [Image]
- Metal Gear Solid 4 Trophy Patch Coming, Trophies Leaked
- ThinkGeek’s ‘Amazing Goodies’ Sale, Including Angry Birds Pork Rinds, “In Stock Until The Lawyers Call”
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Added 10:16am:
- Hentai Games to Take Over Steam, Courtesy of JAST USA
- Shriwook Localization Coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic
Added 10:02am:
- Head-Cooling Patch for Nauseated 3DS Players Now on Sale
- Killzone 3 Cloaked Edition Announced, Comes With Fully-Cloaked Action Figure
- PopCap Creates Microwave Game Console; Play Bejeweled While You Cook
- Sega Announces Super Monkey Cube
- Super 3DBoy iPhone Game System Revealed
- X-Rated Studios Brings Kama Sutra to Consoles
Added 9:46am
Added 9:41am
- 3Dfx Voodoo 590, a Graphics Card That’s “So Powerful, It’s Kind of Ridiculous”
- Ace Combat: Assault Horizon – Namco Bandai Purchase a Jet
- David Cage Heading Up Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
- Destructoid, the World’s #1 Handwritten Gaming News Site
- Duke Nukem Forever – Feces Weapon
- Dragon Rally, a Dragon-Infused Racer, Set for 2018
- Flying Hamster – Coming Soon to PC Engine
- GameFAQs – 40 Years Celebration
- GameFAQs – April 2011 Release Poll
- Gameloft Creates Pet-Controlling iPhone App
- Guild Wars 2 – Commando Class Reveal
- Halo Dance Central is Kinect’s Latest Killer App
- Hordra, an iPhone App Transmutator, Announced
- Illusion 3DL, a 3D System For Adult Gamers
- The Legend of Zelda Remake in Development at FromSoftware
- The Legend of Zelda Special Edition 3DS Announced
- Marcus Fenix Confirmed for Xbox 360 Version of Mortal Kombat
- Might & Magic VI Announced
- MineCraft Store, Featuring Products Up to $1499
- PlayFire Now Tracks SNES Gaming
- Pokemon Brown in Development
- Portal 2 Single-Player Demo Now Available
- President Qwark Renames Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One to Copernicus Qwark’s Awesomely Epic 3D Adventure Through Time & Space, Co Starring, But Not Important In Any Way, Ratchet & Clank
- Razer Bioskeleton Glove Announced
- The Secret World Shifts Setting from Modern to Fantasy
- Shinji Mikami Action Figure With Beard-Shaving Action
- StarCraft: Motion Overdrive Announced for Kinect
- Taito Releases 48-Screen Darius to Arcades
- Total War: Dinosaurs Announced
- World of Warcraft Introduces Crabby, the Dungeon Helper