April Fools' Roundup of 2011
It didn't take long for the developers and publishers around the gaming industries to come up with numerous pranks, jokes and gags lurking on their website wall, just shows how serious they take their April Fools' Day. Below is an insight to some of this year's bizarre side shows from April 1st
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Shinji Mikami's Action Figure
Tango Gameworks starts the fun off by putting up their very own Limited Edition Action Figures of Shinji Mikami, the Resident Evil creator himself, available for purchase. Standing around 6.5 inches tall, with flexible body parts that can be adjusted up to 256 postures.
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StarCraft II gets Kinect Support
Now, we all know that Blizzard at one point did said they were thinking about making games for consoles, but who would had thought that StarCraft II is coming to consoles with Kinect motion sensing support.
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Introducing the Razer Talon - The World's First Gaming Bio-Skeleton
One of the most convincing pranks, Razer even created a long legit-looking article advertising its latest product: the Razer Talon, claiming that wearing this will boast a gamer's typical 100 action-per-minute (APM) to a blazing 3000! According to what Razer had to say, this thing will learn your mouse and keyboard actions and begins to mimic and take-over the gaming executions for you. No need for wallhacks or aimbots. Last but not least, it comes with complimentary Razer Snake Oil that lubricates intense friction coming out of those insane speed. It doubles up as sunscreen and pheromone enhancer too.
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New Items in Minecraft, Prepare to Buy Them Now!
Minecraft to have a new item called Steve Co. Supply Crate, containing items and bonuses, players can now unbox their crates by buying Steve Co. Supply Crate Keys from their online Store page. Hmm, doesn't this look familiar to you ?!
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Also a little something related to Minecraft, would it be cool to own one of these?
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Portal 2 Single Player Demo out now!
All speculations are over, the Portal 2 Demo is now available for download. Just simply click the big blue button there and wait for the 957.7 GB installer file to finish downloading.
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One New Character for XBOX360 Version of Mortal Kombat Confirmed
Playstation 3's version has Kratos, so why not Marcus Fenix for XBOX360's?
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Illusion announce new portable gaming device for adults called 3DL
Lets just say, every angle, every degree. Exclusive for 1 day only, and that's April 1st.
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Total War gets Prehistoric!
With the recent release of Shogun 2: Total War a major success, its that time now to announce the upcoming predecessor. This title will sport enhanced 4D battles via land, sea and air. Erupting exclusively to PC on December 21st, 2012, don't miss this.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic goes Wookie
Players will be able to speak Wookie to one another, or deck their HUD out in the "Walking Carpet' theme as seen below.
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Namco Bandai Purchase a Jet-Fighter to help Promote Ace Combat: Assault Horizon!
"Namco Bandai UK are tired of just normal, boring Marketing and standard PR stunts," said marketing director Lee Kirton. The MiG-21BIS fighter will be used for marketing promotions and delivering preview code to members of the games press.
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The Bard: Savior of Queens
The Witcher developers CD Projekt RED have made their contribution to April Fools' Day with their new announcement. The Bard: Savior of Queens is a game chronicling the adventures of the title character with "no violence, no complex storyline and definitely no morality.
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Microwave Gaming
PopCap Games is to launch a microwave that can play games, and is set for release by Christmas 2011. "Our fans tell us they love to pass the time playing a few levels of their favourite games anywhere and everywhere, and everyone loves a good meal, so we thought, 'why not combine the two?'" said CCO Jason Kapalka. The firm added that a toilet game console is in the works called 'Play-n-Poop'.
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New Killzone 3 Bundle
Instead of the partially cloaked sniper action figure from the previous edition, this edition will come with a fully cloaked Helghast sniper, exactly as cannot be seen in the game. In addition, the Killzone 3 Cloaked Edition will feature an exclusive audio CD.
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Guild Wars 2 unveals new faction
Please welcome the new profession for Guild Wars 2.
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So there it is, April Fools' day gaming industries pranks wrapped up in one article.The developers and publishers did a fine job entertaining us with series of news that keeps getting better and better each year! Just can't wait for next year's.
