Ah, April 1st, the most obnoxious day of the year. I’ve spent a good portion of my day surfing this series of tubes, as I usually do, and have noticed that the entire internet is just one big joke. I can’t look anywhere or take anything seriously. I figured instead of doing an April fools of our own it would be better just to do a run-down of everyone else’s.
I’ll start with IGN, they’re April fool’s jokes are usually well done and this one made me chuckle:
Next on the list is Gamespot, which has 3:
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2: New Playable Character – this one is pretty absurd but certain parts are sort of funny.
Fable II: My Pocket Pets – the best part of this one is Peter Molyneux trying not to laugh.
And thirdly there is a parody trailer for Bioware’s upcoming RPG Dragon Age. Beware, this one is really nerdy and kind of not funny at all.
Moving right along. Woot.com, a bargain “deal a day” website tried to cash in on the festivities offering a bag of 3 random items for $3.00 + $1,000,000.00 shipping. To buy the “Random Crap” as they call it and not have to pay the million dollar shipping charge you needed to read the item description and try to decipher the secret shipping code. Pretty creative if you ask me.
Rotten Tomatoes, a popular movie rating website (for those of you that don’t know), is also getting in on the fun. Using their “Weekly Ketchup” as a vehicle for this year’s joke they were able to make some pretty convincing stories, none of which are particularly funny though. You can read the top ten here.
Oh yeah… Squeeze Bacon.
And to wrap up another April Fools day I will present you with this:
Those are real. Seriously.
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