This year's April Fool's Day seemed a little lamer than usual (and not just my own weak though ever-so-vaguely plausible contribution). Here's what people thought would be amusing:
- Harmonix released "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton for free. Rock Band fanatics conjured conspiracy theories ranging from a rick roll (the song would really be Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up") to a surprise (and long overdue) full album release. The reality? Just the song. For free. And people still whined about it.
- World of Warcraft creators Blizzard announced a new bard class that includes a Guitar Hero-like interface capable of defeating foes. That actually would be pretty cool. Blizzard also announced a console edition of its MMORPG called World of Warcraft: Molten Core
- Assassin's Creed and Metal Gear Solid 4 creators conjured a mashup of Solid Snake as Altair
- Microsoft announced new Xbox-themed products: a wireless helmet, vintage wood original Xbox, ruggedized recon Xbox 360 edition and a board game
- ThinkGeek revealed a new Wii title Super Pii Pii Brothers, which included a harness for using the Wii-mote as a urination simulation
- Kotaku became Kaketaku and reported mostly on cakes, spoofing their tradition of showing off virtually any game-themed confection
- Starcraft II announced the addition of Tauren marines, flown in from sister title Warcraft
- Spore creators announced SporeDate, which would turn the game into a potential love connection
- EverQuest II replaced its in-game treasure chests with companion cubes from Portal
- Final Fantasy XI Online reported it would shut down servers on June 31 (a non-existent date)
- Guild Wars level 20 characters were replaced with stick figures
- Gamespot reported that Rock Band would be coming to the PSP
- Xfire updated its site in L33t
- Club Penguin turned its forest upside down
As you probably know, our friends at Blizzard love April Fool's, so you can probably expect to see some shenanigans from them tomorrow Just to get you ready, here's a quick roundup of what they've done in the past few years It seems like they've been upping the ante for a
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got sold to Blizzard (providing a weird foreshadowing for later that year), and a number of other Warcraft-related jokes flew around But
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so awe inspiring that people would insist for days that it was only a joke (like a second hero class or something of that magnitude)