It’s still March 31 by the official Kotaku calendar, but it’s April Fools’ Day in Japan, something you should take into consideration while watching Sega’s new trailer for Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, its latest fighting game update. More »
Earlier this year, Blizzard once again impressed us with its ability to churn out a handful of April Fool’s Day news pranks that were not only hilarious, but were uncharacteristically delivered on time. One of those was the announcement of World of Warcraft: The Molten Core, the first WoW release for a console, the Atari 2600. The game is a fabrication no longer — someone’s made it.
Today, April 1st, 3D Realms released a new corporate logo plus new Duke Nukem Forever concept art. That, after the jump.
I’d like to say I saved the best April Fool’s Day post for last, but then I’d just be fooling myself. The bad news is, all Jumpgate Evolution and LEGO Universe developers NetDevil managed to pull together for this festive day was a logo swap accompanied by a brief announcement.
Either there has been some impressive organisation between the hardcore Halo 3 community in the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania or the boys at Bungie are pulling a fast one on us. Considering that it’s *sigh* still April 1 Pacific Time, we’re guessing it’s the latter. Kudos to the Halo teamsters for their subtle and cheery geek map.
Bungie Online [Bungie - thanks, Bradley!]
If you missed it the first time, 1UP’s coverage of LEGO Halo—which actually debuted about a month ago in the April issue of EGM—is now online, on April Fool’s Day, for your mock-up viewing pleasure. No, it’s not real, in spite of the genuine looking pair of screen shots, and that fall release date isn’t happening. It’s a respectably sound idea regardless, as I would expect half of everything will be LEGO-fied within the next decade. Someone at Microsoft and LEGO has to be seeing the profit potential on this crossover.
Previews: Lego Halo [1UP]
There are a lot of splendid jokes hitting the net today, a lot of bad ones too, but this wonderful Zelda the Movie trailer created by IGN has to take the cake. I for one am happy it’s a prank, Link, a real Link, wearing that silly little green hat is the last thing I want to see in a movie theatre.
Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer Premiere Your dreams realised. [IGN]
Clearly, this April Fool’s Day thing has gone too far. Joke’s over, people. We simply can’t revisit our painful teenage years, when so many of us were legitimately fooled by EGM’s legendary Sheng Long gag while loitering near the Waldenbooks magazine rack.
newVideoPlayer("FINALCUT1.flv", 463, 387,""); Happy April Fool’s Day everyone! Finally I get to introduce myself. I am Adam Barenblat, successor to Tori Floyd and the second intern for Kotaku. I do understand Tori will be one hard act to follow and I will be a little different. Instead of writing, my internship focuses on bringing you the Kotaku reader engaging and awesome video content. So I am proud to present to you my first small assignment on this April Fool’s Day, The Kaketakumentary.
Microsoft had some fun at all of our expense over at their Xbox.com site. As part of a “What’s Popping Up This Spring” promotion complete with pastel flower festivity, they announced four “new” products for pre-order. But before we get all giggly, let me be the first to say that this Xbox 360 Vintage Edition is actually quite awesome and should really be produced. Sure, the 100-or-so-button controller appears a but daunting. But it’s made of wood. Real wood!
For the other three prank products, hit the jump.
