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Title: Favorite 2009 April's Fools Jokes for Gaming NEWS
Post by: MysterD on Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 01:51:59 PM
We all love the bogus news that hits on April's Fools.
So, link your fav's from 2009 and ones you like.

Witcher: Mysterious Secrets revealed for 2010 for Handheld Phones. (http://www.thewitcher.com/community/en/www/mysterious_secrets.html)

I must say, the videos CDPR did on this thing are hilarious, heh.
Title: Re: Favorite 2009 April's Fools Jokes for Gaming NEWS
Post by: Quemaqua on Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 01:58:00 PM
Quake Live becomes a whole new game (http://www.quakelive.com)!

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Title: Re: Favorite 2009 April's Fools Jokes for Gaming NEWS
Post by: MysterD on Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 02:08:24 PM
Umbrella Corp asks for $100 million bailout (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6207121.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;1)
Title: Re: Favorite 2009 April's Fools Jokes for Gaming NEWS
Post by: iPPi on Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 02:20:32 PM
New Diablo III Class - The Archivist
http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/archivist.xml

New Starcraft 2 Unit - Terra-tron
http://starcraft2.com/features/terran/terratron.xml
Title: Re: Favorite 2009 April's Fools Jokes for Gaming NEWS
Post by: MysterD on Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 02:34:02 PM
Microsoft & Windows Operating System joins Steam (http://www.multiplay.co.uk/index.asp?newsid=2545)
Warner Bros. acquires The Pirate Bay (http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-acquires-the-pirate-bay-090401/)
Title: Re: Favorite 2009 April's Fools Jokes for Gaming NEWS
Post by: W7RE on Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 02:35:47 PM
World of Warcraft presents new Dance Battle System. 1 on 1 dance battles, or 5 on 5 dance-off competition hosted by Kael'thas Sunstrider:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/dance/index.xml

Or from the European WoW site, P1mp My Mount:
https://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/mount-p1mpage.html

Bioshock: Undersea Carnival Games. An overly violent mini-game collection for the Wii:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6207190.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;3

Human remains found on Tom Nook's pig farm (he runs the general store in Animal Crossing):
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6207123.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;4

Fable II: My Pocket Pets. New pet breeding sim game DLC for Fable II, that only costs $1 a day to keep your pet alive!
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/rpg/fable2/news.html?sid=6207174&om_act=convert&om_clk=picks&tag=picks;title;2

Dragon's Age: Origins story video "A Hero":
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/dragonage/video/6207185/?tag=topslot;thumb;1

New Marvel Ultimate Alliance character announced!:
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/rpg/marvelultimateallianceiifusion/news.html?sid=6207217&tag=topslot;thumb;3
Title: Re: Favorite 2009 April's Fools Jokes for Gaming NEWS
Post by: MysterD on Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 02:46:30 PM
LMAO @ the Dragon Age video.

SlashDot announces brand new User Achievements. (http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/31/1610228)
Internet Explorer 9.0 to use Mozilla Firefox as its code basis (http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24163/1162/)