In-Game - April Fools Day round-up: video games edition

Astro Gaming

By Mike Fahey
Kotaku

Never trust anything you read on the internet, and that goes doubly today. It's April Fools' Day, and we're rounding up the very best and very worst of what the gaming industry thinks is funny.

Bookmark this page and keep checking back, as April 1 is generally the longest 24 hours of the year on the World Wide Web. There are still plans brewing out there. We can smell them.

Here's what we've got so far.

The Good

• Star Wars: The Old Republic Localized for Wookies [Star Wars: The Old Republic]
• Video Game Peripherals Made Of Gold, "For The Player Inside The Player" [Astro Gaming]
• World of Warcraft Introduces Crabby the Dungeon Helper [Blizzard]
• Guild Wars 2 Introduces the Commando Character Class [ArenaNet]
• Ratchet & Clank: All For One Remade in Qwark's Image [PlayStation Blog]
• Announcing Super Monkey Cube [Sega]
• StarCraft Motion Overdrive Coming To An Xbox 360 Near You [Blizzard]
• Tango Gameworks Shinji Mikami Action Figures [Tango Gameworks]
• Twisted Pixel Reveals That This Home Depot Wooden Dowel Is The Official Gunstringer Marionette Controller [Twisted Pixel]
• The Two-Hour Role-Playing Game "The Bard" Features "Non-Linear Male-Female Relations" [CD Projekt]
• A Day of Gaming News as Interpretive Dance and Mime [Nukezilla]
• Harmonix CEO and Co-Founder Traded in at GameStop [Harmonix]
• Diablo III's Horadric Cube iPhone App [Blizzard]
• Forsaken World Reveals New Edward Vampire Class [Perfect World]
• Uber Entertainment Debuts Smash MNC [Uber]
• Google Job Listing: Auto-Completer [Google]
• Minecraft Opens Minecraft Loot Store [Mojang]
• The Razer Talon Exoskeleton Gaming Glove [Razer]
• Angry Birds Pork Rinds, Edible iPhone Cases, and More! [Think Geek]

The Bad

• Hentai Games Finally Coming To Steam [JAST USA]
• World of Warcraft's Tomb of Immortal Darkness is Very Dark [Blizzard]
• Nintendo DS Recalled [Zippy Gamer]
• World of Keflings Creators Announce World of Deathlings (sans screenshots, links, anything). [Ninja Bee]
• Magicka Vietnam Publisher Reveals King Arthur Vietnam [Paradox Interactive]
• Harry Potter: The TV Show [IGN]
• Gmail Motion [Google]
• Killzone 3: Cloaked Edition [Guerrilla]
• City of Heroes is Running Out of XP [Paragon Studios]
• Wizard101 Pet Rock [Wizard101]

The Ugly

• Gearbox Software Takes Duke Nukem's Crudeness To The Next Level: Flinging @!$%# [2K Games]
• Brink Developers Make Facebook Game Tapir Wars 3 1/3: The Zoocial Network [Splash Damage]
• 1UP Checks Out Halo Dance Central [1UP]
• Single Player Portal 2 Demo [FilePlanet]
  

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happy april fools day, gamers!