Its April Fools on the internet! - One of the best gaming holidays

[Bells]

Also, Saints Row 3 did the same thing.

[Ramary]

Jarate was an April's Fool joke at first.

[Flarecobra]

TF2 and Reddit had some business transactions.

[Amake]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

I remember back when the entire point of these things was to actually trick people into thinking they were real.

What? Admit it you spent hours trying to unlock Sonic in Melee

Not strictly related to videogames, but I remember my mom used to tell how they tricked the whole country back in the day when color TV was barely a thing. They made a whole TV show about how covering the screen in nylon stockings, stretched just right, would make it color.

Probably a few million man hours and a number of socks were spent in vain that day.

[Arcanum]

So I just found out that Blizzard actually went through with it, and Warhounds are indeed in the game for all three races. *As each race's workers.

[Aerozord]

Mostly its that they aren't even trying to make them seem real.

I do agree sometimes we get awesomeness out of it. Hell it brought back toonami.

[synkr0nized]

Originally Posted by Arcanum

So I just found out that Blizzard actually went through with it, and Warhounds are indeed in the game for all three races. *As each race's workers.

I realize this is not a video game, but YouTube has "gone through with it" and is currently still streaming a show announcing all of the "nominees" with real tweets across the bottom and related contest text. They built a stage with a podium and backdrop, have two hosts* doing the reading and a little bit of commentary, and have a video wall broadcast of it as well in their offices.

They're nearing the 9th hour. This is dedication to a stupid joke.


* YouTube has given them things based on people re-tweeting some of their messages (e.g. water, coffee, stools to sit on).

[Magus]

Originally Posted by Kyanbu The Legend

http://www.capcom-unity.com/combofie...reet-fighter-4


If Capcom was smart, they'd ignore this day... but they didn't. And it's hard to believe that's a joke considering what they did with Street Fighter 2.


But At least it's not a fake Megaman trailor.

That's not even funny since it is merely a satire on their own dumb marketing strategy of rereleasing each new Street Fighter game six times with slightly more characters.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Magus

That's not even funny since it is merely a satire on their own dumb marketing strategy of rereleasing each new Street Fighter game six times with slightly more characters.

Poor Combofiend.

It's the same joke he would have made before getting on Capcom's payroll, but now he has to deal with having nerdrage directed at him over it.

[Amake]

If they really did come up with a third power bar, besides health and super, it would be the biggest innovation on Capcom's part in at least twenty years. Maybe we could make it a. . .tactical bar? Super jumps, feints, grapple escapes, there's a whole untapped dimension. But noo, let's make the same super duper joke everyone else have been making since about Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo instead.