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>april fools done by a video game developer
>the idea is actually pretty good
>you wish it was real
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>>332739160
>developers april fools jokes are actually more interesting than the games they actually are developing
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>developer makes actual announcement on April Fool's Day
Has anyone actually done this?
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>We're canceling "Game 3" guys haha!

its not a joke
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>>332739698
A few times, yeah. League of Legends once announced a new character on April Fools who was real, but they pretended he had a special blind-vision filter applied to the whole game.
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>>332739698
if i had some way of actually developing a wildly ambitious game thats exactly what i would do
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>>332739698
Far Cry Blood Dragon iirc
Yeah, it was rad as hell
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>>332739698
Overkill will do an announcement today regarding one of the skilltree updates in Payday 2
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Mighty Number 9 is finally done and we started shipping the physical copies to stores !
HAHAHA, fun amirite ?

>-2M$ kickstarter refund
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To this day I am angry at the lack of Ace Hound Attorney.

>>332739698
I guess Miitomo in some regions.
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;_;
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I remember Blizzard announcing a pretty rad class for Diablo 3
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>>332739160
The thought of people actually believing that SEGA would release a fix version of Sonic 06

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGXDgGGBNms
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>>332741176
Even if Sonic 06 was released completely bug free, it wouldn't make it a fun game.
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>>332739698
Mega Man Universe got cancelled on April First.
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>Dev jokes about something
>Ends up wasting a ton of development resources implementing it a year later
>It's dead on arrival
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http://supersonico.jp/
I dunno if it's a good april fool joke, but it managed to make a large amount of cowtitsfags massively butthurt.
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>>332739698
'Splosion Man got announced on April 1st, and the next day they made another announcement saying "no, really, we're actually doing this".
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>>332743165
Serves them right for having shit taste.
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>>332743258
Carlos pls.
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>>332739160
Literally every touhou april fools
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>mfw Cat Girl Without Salad NEVER EVER
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i remember they anounced riddle school 4 on/for april 1, so fucking shit nigaaa kill me
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>the april fool's joke is a jumpscare
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>>332743165
What's the deal with that artist and giving his girls DQ slime faces? As if Pochako doesn't look dumb enough already.
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>>332739920
>hey guys we're proud to announce the brand new free skill tree update!
>jk it'll cost $19.99 and be apart of a another daily 6GB update
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>>332740529
>Ace Hound Attorney
Of all the mean jokes Capcom has done, this one personally stung the most. Sherlock Hound is the fucking raddest.
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>>332743607
Massively madness from cosplayers too.
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>>332743868
Are you saying you WOULDN'T fuck a girl with a DQ slime face?
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>>332741176
Say what you will but the music is still badass.
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>>332744353
>princess potato
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>>332739698
This happened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCx5gjAmqI
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>>332743893
inb4 the joke is that you pay 10 cents for each upgrade
"lol jk guys it was free all along. Aren't we just the most self-aware?"
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>>332744496
Do a search on twitter for sonico lang:en. The butthurt is real.
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>>332744353
>Sonico means so much to me
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>>332739698
Valve actually, with the Jarate.
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>>332739698
Nintendo held an entire direct on april fools day
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>>332744353
>Princess Potato

Who needs genius authors when poetry can write itself?
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Surprised no one posted this.
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>>332745551
FUCK

THAT WAS TOO GOOD FOR MODERN CAPCOM
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https://warframe.com/lotus-packs/

>tfw you would legit pay for Vay Hek narrating your mission progress
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>>332739780
lee sin?
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>when the april fools idea is better than their actual ideas and they know it
real funny
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>>332745274
Top kek
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http://homestarrunner.com/answer17.html
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>>332741926
This one still hurts.
Just let the serpent riders out man
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>>332739698
Arma 3 and the go kart DLC
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>>332739698
not vidya but Google announced every Gmail account would come with 1GB of storage.

In 2004 that was massive for online storage (and for free) so everyone thought it was an obvious joke.

It wasn't a joke when it stuck around on April 2nd
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>>332746647
>>332739780
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZV3zWMj2eQ
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>Fantastic idea
>didn't see the light of day until 12 years later
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>>332739160
Fuck Blizzard.
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This is just a cool fucking trailer regardless of it being april fool's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phDyFvprtsk
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>Refresh page
WHAT IS HAPPENING
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>>332745551
>>332745687
didn't this end up being real?
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>>332747082
>heather blackburn

thanks hiro for new RP name
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>>332747283
Nothing, Harriet Lee
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>>332747317
Nope. It was a god awful joke when the decline of Megaman games started.
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>>332747283
This is awful. I hope I have a pretty name though.
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>>332747707
well, sorta

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/truforce/truforce-collectibles-mega-man-x-action-figure
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>>332747907
hi Latasha :^)
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>>332747340
>Harriet Lee
Learn 2 read Elisa Frye
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fuck berries.
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>April fools joke by developer
>It becomes real
RIP Project M
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>>332748178
Shut up, '''''''Lesley''''''''
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>mfw
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Still waiting for the Dance Studio.
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>>332748051
I HATE IT
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I remember one of Ubisofts conferences with Mr. Caffeine where'd they show a retro version of their game would look way more interesting than the actual thing.
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>>332748303
oh, what do you want Lee?
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Rolling for qt
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>>332744125
well, at least they are subbed online
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Does that mean we all are the cute girls now?
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>>332751335
L O N D O N
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>>332744353
>loli gravure sonico
Oh baby.
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>>332739698
Blizzard
>Fun has been removed from the game
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>tf2 wiki posts about valve announcing ricochet 2
>forget what day it is, get hype
>mfw the joke got revealed
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>>332739160
>announce game they KNOW people will get excited over
>Jk April fools
If fans legitimately get excited over it
like this shit
>>332745551
Why not fucking make the game? Its like companies enjoy failing with games
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>>332743165
i need more of this
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>>332747283
It's a joke on how moot now works for google.
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why did they fucking lie to us
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>>332751335
I wonder if you get a new name everytime you post or if this can be used for samefag detection
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>>332753459
no, it's not an ID
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>haha guys wouldnt it be really funny if we are actually good devs
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>>332740806
That's just cruel...
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>>332739160
I like this one because it's simple. They changed some character portraits to little goofy things
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>World of Tanks
>becomes World of Mechs instead for a day
>rad as hell
why didn't they make a playlist just for it?
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>>332739160
The Skin system in soccer spirits

They later implemented it because it was so popular
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>>332741286
This is my favorite YouTube comment. It's on literally every video that's even tangentially related to Sonic 06.

>Sega should fix all the bugs and rerelease it, it would be an awesome game!
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>>332739613
I still can't fucking believe they made a mech JUST for april fools day, they made a detailed 3d model and fucking rigged animations alongside the gameplay aspect of it, and then never used it again

FUCK
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http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/

Is this shit fucking real???
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>>332739698
Blood Dragon

game was pretty fun too
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>>332755373
Nova Covert Ops is real, they announced that a while ago
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