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April Fools Roundup

By codemonkey uk (Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 01:38:43 PM EST) April, Fools (all tags)

Fun is fun.

Is April 1st fun? The good stuff is, the bad stuff grates. Here's my rundown of today's gags.

Youtube Rickrolls the Internet
http://youtube.com/
All video links from the front page go to Never Gonna Give You Up.
BBC's Flying Penguins
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/epeng001.shtml
Nicely done nature documentary spoof, if a tad outlandish. I don't think they'll ever top spaghetti trees.
Blizzard
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/index.xml
Triple hit of new "hero class" (Bard) announcement, Warcraft for Consoles announcement, and (my favourite of the 3) a client side script on their forums that litter everyone's post with "lols" and other forumisms.
IGN previews Zelda Movie trailer
http://uk.movies.ign.com/dor/articles/863515/legend-of-zelda-movie-trailer/videos/legendofzelda_filmtrailer_040108.html;jsessionid=11fsfi7o55sv0
Extra points for effort.
Assasin's Creed vs. Metal Gear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxw91PSTRq8
Cute piece of cross-promotion. Not sure if it really counts as an April Fool, since the Assassin costume will probably end up being an unlockable.
Kotaku become's a Game Cakes webside.
http://kotaku.com/
Google & Virgin Mars Colony.
http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html
Disappointing repeat of the 2004 Moon Base gag.
Websites reskinning as otherwebsites. Ie, wowhead reskined as thottbot (http://www.wowhead.com/). Unoriginal, but briefly amusing.
Obvious fake tech news. Ie:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01/ibm_scoble_nano/
Mostly not funny anymore chaps.
Websites redirecting to other websites (ie C64 site http://www.c64.sk/ redirected to a Spectrum site). Oh the hilarity. Unless you actually want to use the website today. At all.