April Fool's Day 2015 Thread: DTA

It is April 1st in some parts of the world, and some companies are already putting their gags out there. This is a thread where you can post either fake news or just weird goofy stuff companies are doing for April Fool's Day. If you see news that might be too good to be true, please double check it. Like the great "Stone Cold" Steve Austin once said, "DTA: Don't Trust Anybody."

(Note: this was posted earlier but I accidentally deleted it while trying to update the stories so I'm posting it again)

Here is what is out there so far, I'll try to update this as the day goes on, maybe tomorrow as well:

Street Fighter legend Daigo Umehara is retiring to become an accountant.

League of Legends is adding Ultra Rapid Fire Mode

You can play Pac-Man on Google maps.

Dying Light allows you to punch and kick zombies really far.

French-Bread announces UNIEL sequel Under Night In-Birtha Xnd -Cosign-

Square Enix announces Tekken X Lord of Vermillion

New Great Ace Attorney trailer has gone to the dogs.

With the exception of the fake products that Think Geek makes up (some of which have actually been created) this is my opinion on April Fool's.

Oh my god I hope they include barks for text as an optional toggle in the new AA.

EDIT: I don't like mean spirited pranks but I do enjoy the clever gags that some sites put way too much effort into, especially when they poke fun at themselves like Blizzard usually does.

@starvinggamer: Yeah, I avoided a lot of the fake news releases and stuff on other sites for stuff game companies put out. Or something with clearly a lot of work put into it (Like that Daigo thing)

New things

Swery teases D5 Dark Dreams Don't Die with Deadly Premonition

Warner Bros announces The Battle for Middle-earth III: Battle of the Five Armies

Taito's combines the arcade and the spa into a new experience.

The Nautilus (from 20,000 Leagues) and The Beatles' famed Yellow Submarine added to Star Citizen

Big Head mode added to Heroes of the Storm

@recspec:

That Battle for Middle Earth one bummed me out.

I feel like "announce sequel to franchise people like" isn't really a great or creative prank.

@duluoz: Yeah, waiting for Capcom's yearly "MEGA MAN, RIGHT?" joke.

@duluoz said:

Yeah, those are the shittiest pranks.

"Get it, it's a joke to us, because we the developers know that not in a million years would the suits upstairs greenlight a sequel to that series you like because it doesn't make enough money."

Yeah, fantastic prank you guys.

And then you have Tekken X Lord of Vermillion, which is just rubbing salt in the wound of "Hey, Namco Bandai sure as fuck is never going to make Tekken X Street Fighter!" Though I dunno, I guess on some level it's funny that Square Enix is trolling Namco Bandai so hard with that one.

Also fuck, we're never getting SMT X Fire Emblem, are we?

@recspec: Planet Express Ship from Futurama made me laugh.

Guild Wars 2 has everyone in 'airplane mode'. Arms straight out, aviator cap, and characters making airplane noises whenever you run around.

Also some good old-timey music when you die, apparently.

Oh no! Seems like the totally real N.U.R.F. mode has bugged out, and who knows what will remain of it when they upload on League of Legends?

http://oce.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/gameplay/disaster-during-new-ultra-rapid-fire-upload

It's very likely a return of U.R.F., a custom game mode that lasted only a week but gained a lot of traction with the community. It was basically based in giving every champion unbelievable buffs, including no resource costs and an 80% reduced CD on every ability. N.U.R.F. has meant to be a complete opposite, making mana costs stupid high, everyone incredibly slow, and making all CDs about 2 times longer.

Edit: I'm an idiot, didn't notice this in the OP.

Posted this over in the Warframe thread but thought it would probably be a better fit for this one:

@amikron said:

Dan Ryckert would really like the Warframe Subreddit design right now:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Warframe/comments/310do6/wahahaha_were_waframe_wera_gonna_wina/

@adequatelyprepared: Don't worry about it, a lot of these are things I know are jokes, but that's about it. It's good to get the perspective of someone who actually knows what it means.

Swery is my favorite. I know there's a link for this above, but now you can see it here:

@cornbredx: Yeah, that one is pretty awesome.

April 1st always bums me out. It's when companies prototype cool shit that will never get made. I want an Ace Attorney game with dogs dangit!

Lies are not jokes or gags. Lies are lies.

Worst day of the year on the internet. People trying to be funny and failing miserably. A bunch of sites that become unusable because of their "jokes".

Fake news stories are fine as long as they're obviously fake. But shit beyond that is stupid.

What the heck is up with that Battle for Middle-Earth one? Aren't pranks supposed to be clever and/or funny? Not "haha fuck you, this game isn't actually coming out"

New Back to the Future

This made me laugh, feel good, and confused all while not realizing it was April 1st (saw this at 1 A.M. on April 1st).

Combines two of my favorite movie franchises.

Sony is getting in on the fun.

Looks like World of Tanks did some kind of undead tower defense game as a joke

SUPERQOT!

http://superhotgame.com/SUPERQOT/

Damn it, April 1st. Now I wish Capcom would make a Sherlock Hound game in the vein of Ace Attorney. :(

Hey guys, Hal Life 3 and Shenmue 3 were just announced!

Blizzard's Starcraft one this year is just dumb. They've actually had really funny ones the past few years that, while obviously not fooling anyone, were fun little winks and nods to people who really follow the game, but this year's is just lame.

Despite the name of the thread, when I read this I immediately went to Google maps to check for myself. It just seemed too awesome :c how embarrassing

Driveclub gave everyone a free Motorstorm Buggy.

The Daigo accountant gag is pretty awesome.

I like this sort of April fools stuff.

@supermike6: Blizzard has done some good ones (World of Starcraft and the Battle.net dating service spring to mind), and many years they've done different jokes for each of their games at the same time.

But they've been really expensive for April Fool's jokes so you can see why they wouldn't necessarily always want to do it.

Also the Japanese jokes are pretty good

Frogwares just posted a very disturbing Sherlock Holmes vs Fifty Shades of Grey crossover video.

The D4/Deadly Premonition joke is alright, but Swery's tweet announcing it is WONDERFUL

I want to live in Swery's understanding of America.

Square Enix already did theirs, albeit a few months too early, when they announced that the PC version of Final Fantasy 7 was coming to the PS4, untouched.

The Humble Bundle BallyHoo one is pretty fun. It's basically them poking fun at what a bundle would be like in the era of stick balls and cup and balls and old time toys. Stickball Premium basically just being Baseball is pretty funny.
Plus they set up the joke page to still go towards charity if you donate, though all you get is like a PDF.

War Thunder has finally re-created one of the most famous vehicles of the Second World War in the game, including a full history page for those unfamiliar with its design & deployment by the USSR!

April Fools DLC Pack for Payday 2.

http://www.ign.com/videos/2015/04/01/new-back-to-the-future-crossover-trailer

This was by far my favorite, especially since it actually works:

Microsoft Launches MS-DOS Mobile

Swery's random "Thanks Obama" hashtag is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. God I hope we get more D4.

Get J-Mac on this ASAP.

I have a way bigger problem with people who can't get behind Pacman on Google Maps than April Fool's Day.

The Youtube Music player on every video, while a low brow joke, I found pretty entertaining.

Probably meaningless to people who don't watch the show but Rhett and Link's Good Mythical Morning saw a pretty hilarious Spanish edition today.

Huh, didn't League of Legends do the exact same thing last year?

I enjoyed metal archives' introduction of captchas.

Yeah kinda, the community has been bitching to bring it back every day since so if they did anything different people would have rioted... GET IT RIOT MADE IT RIOTED

The lead up to it was pretty funny and some pros are playing it today

Popular Smash Bros mod 'Project M' coming to another Nintendo console.

Hearthstone's April 1 patch notes.

Starfox Horizons, A collaboration between Nintendo and Platinum Games.

Bethesda announces animated series for The Evil Within

Harmonix presents Romance Central (Actually playable)

Amazon.com has gone retro =P. I thought I went to a phishing site by accident at first haha