Happy April 2nd?
Ah April Fools, it has to be one of my favourite non-religious, totaly outragious holidays of the year. Here are a few of my personal highlights:
- Fantasy World XD was re-skined into "Grandpa Marketis’ Old Nazi Ninja Company" and tried to turn April 1st into a communist holiday:
http://www.fantasyworldxd.co.uk/temp/apr il_fools_08.png
- Final Fantasy XI Allahkazam became "Hello Kitty Online Adventures" (with mind blowing pink everywhere):
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/
- XKCD and two other web comics I've never heard off switched their URL's round to point to each other:
http://www.xkcd.com/
- VG Cats did a parody of CAD:
http://vgcats.com/
- YouTube made every video link on their homepage link to Rick Roll:
http://www.youtube.com/
- IGN made a Zelda movie trailer video:
http://kotaku.com/374653/amazing-zelda-t he-movie-prank
- Feminist Gamers reports on 'illegal Pokémon fighting ring bust':
http://www.feministgamers.com/?p=373
- Kotaku goes cake mad (lets be honest... they were cake mad before today :P):
http://kotaku.com/374403/hooray-kotaku-p urchases-gamecakescom
- Friendcodes.com's prank backfires:
http://www.jolt.co.uk/index.php?articlei d=10883
- Lots more video game related jokes were also covered by Joystiq:
http://www.joystiq.com/tag/aprilfools08/
All in all, a great turnout.
Anyone see a good one I missed?
- Fantasy World XD was re-skined into "Grandpa Marketis’ Old Nazi Ninja Company" and tried to turn April 1st into a communist holiday:
http://www.fantasyworldxd.co.uk/temp/apr
- Final Fantasy XI Allahkazam became "Hello Kitty Online Adventures" (with mind blowing pink everywhere):
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/
- XKCD and two other web comics I've never heard off switched their URL's round to point to each other:
http://www.xkcd.com/
- VG Cats did a parody of CAD:
http://vgcats.com/
- YouTube made every video link on their homepage link to Rick Roll:
http://www.youtube.com/
- IGN made a Zelda movie trailer video:
http://kotaku.com/374653/amazing-zelda-t
- Feminist Gamers reports on 'illegal Pokémon fighting ring bust':
http://www.feministgamers.com/?p=373
- Kotaku goes cake mad (lets be honest... they were cake mad before today :P):
http://kotaku.com/374403/hooray-kotaku-p
- Friendcodes.com's prank backfires:
http://www.jolt.co.uk/index.php?articlei
- Lots more video game related jokes were also covered by Joystiq:
http://www.joystiq.com/tag/aprilfools08/
All in all, a great turnout.
Anyone see a good one I missed?