Fake Watch: On-going April Fool’s 2009 Hoax List

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Fake Watch: On-going April Fool’s 2009 Hoax List
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Oh, Internets. You and your silly April Fool’s Day jokes. We would never do anything like that. We’re far too serious. To combat this nonsense, Destructoid has collected all the April Fool’s Day hoaxes we could find as a public service, presented here in one easy-to-manage list. We’ll be updating this list throughout the day, so keep us posted if you see anything.

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Best gaming AFD jokes:

  • Atlus: Raiho plushies kidnapped
  • Maxis: Dungeons of Spore: game coming to Ti-83s
  • Zam: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Online, the MMO of your dreams
  • Microsoft: new game called Alpine Legend (god, I want this game)
  • Kojima: Campbell?
  • Bethesda: Horse armor for Oblivion doubles in price for today.
  • Kotaku: New Koei Tecmo logo looks like tits
  • Sega Japan: 7th Dragon The Movie
  • Crispy Gamer: unveiled: the real PSP2
  • Gamespot: Umbrella Corp. requests bailouts
  • Blizzard: WoW: Pimp my mount
  • Blizzard: Starcraft 2: giant robot base (heavy traffic to this one)
  • Cubed3: Sonic the Hedgehog 4
  • Thinkgeek: Fully functional Portal t-shirts
  • The Witcher‘s “Mysterious Secrets Announced“
  • New NeoGeo game: Star Radish (awesome music!)
  • Bungie: B.U.N.G.L.E. gaming league? Maps.

Not-so-funny gaming-related AFD ones:

  • Taito: a press release on Space Invaders and bringing the quarter back
  • Gameloft: press release announces The Oregon Trail: Origins – cave men going west
  • Blizzard: new character, Archivist

Ones that had us fooled but were true:

  • Rock Band/Star Trek promotion

There’s even more internet nonsense after the jump, including the non-gaming stuff. More is coming throughout the day.

Best non-gaming internet-related AFD jokes:

  • Reddit looks like another site…
  • PCWorld: TiVo DVR-SuperAdvance can fast-forward anything before it airs
  • Google: Gmail Autopilot writes your email for you
  • Opera: Face gesture browsing (watch the video!)
  • YouTube is upside down

Funny tech-related AFD hoaxes:

  • Kodak: eyeCamera 4.1 attaches to your eye (great image!)

And the not-so-funny non-gaming ones:

  • Guardian goes Twitter-only
  • Amazon: Real cloud computing in airships
  • Woot’s $3 bag of crap

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