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April Fools' Alert #1: Blizzard adds bards, brings WoW to consoles

by Justin McElroy on Apr 1st 2008 8:35AM

We warned you yesterday that Blizzard couldn't be trusted on the first day of April, but zut alors have they ever outdone themselves this year with no fewer than four separate pranks! If there's an alternate reality version of you who's equally dorky but much, much more gullible, he's about to pee himself.

For instance, did you know that Lich King would be adding an awesome bard class to World of Warcraft or that WoW was coming to consoles with the decidedly old school Molten Core (there's even a trailer!)? Well, you must have heard about Tauren marines in StarCraft II, right? You haven't even seen Diablo II: Loot Pinata?

In case you're wondering what Blizzard is doing with the hundreds of millions they're earning from World of Warcraft ... it's this. It's just this.

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Tags: aprilfools08, blizzard, world-of-warcraft, wow

Reader Comments (43)

Lol @ the NOT MILK groin box!

i second that lol.

the one that i like the most is the one of The Legend Of
Zelda is freaking cool

Urg, this is going to be a long day.

Holy shit! I'm impressed at how much work they put into those fake pages. I'll usually just plastic wrap a toilet bowl or something and call it a day...

LMAO!!! Funny stuff there tuna. =O

Yeah. That's great. Great job Blizzard. Why don't you spend your time making an actual MMO for consoles instead of creating lame ass jokes about it. Sheesh.

Get a sense of humor.

You have no child-hood... I pity you..

Okay, so disregard the point he was making.

I agree. It would be nice to see WoW on a console. Wii, 360. Any of the popular machines and it could be a big hit.

The amount of retooling you'd have to do for wow's interface alone would be staggering.

That said, a guy can dream.

Those Tauren Marines rock. They obliterated that Terran outpost... I want some...

IT HAS BEGUN!

/shang tsung

TOASTY!

/Dan Forden

COME'ERE!!!

/Scorpion

I can see the Tauren Marines making it into StarCraft II. After all, they got Terran Marines into WC III.

That unit will no doubt be in the campaign editor, and if we're all lucky a secret cow level buried somewhere in the single player campaign. Oh man that would be sweet...

Oh that console part is just low...some people are gonna be pissed when they see that.

'Has Sound' - that part was the clincher. Awesome pranks, Blizzard.

That was pretty damn funny.

I also enjoyed: :Blizzard's World of Warcraft: The Molten Core Collector's Edition, also announced today, will include tinted cellophane TV overlays, further increasing the array of colors available to players."

Agro bears FTW!!

Dude, you have 8 UNIQUE directions to move. What's not awesome about this game?

What is with this industry and April fools? I blame EGM for starting this crap. Could you imagine if other industries follow suit?

i would have a much better day.

Nice touches on the armor. USDA, Udder Chaos, etc.

I guess that makes the guy atop him the driver, or maybe even a steer controller?

Nyuk. nyuk, nyuk...

You wanna knock off Christmas while you at it?? Companies offering certain goodies or free stuff for everyone to enjoy one day....never...BLASPHEMY!?!
Jeez....

^--- Was targeted to Dave.

In b4 "You Spoony Bard" references.

Oh shit, fire!

*grabs extinguisher and puts Alex out*

Don't forget that one year the April's fools came true!
Goblin Tinker in Warcraft III anyone?

I can't wait to play Molton Core in glorius 192i resolution and the fact that it has sound, that is just awesome.

If i want to read fake news i will read the onion. I am not a fan of filtering through a whole EGM to realize that it's the april issue and some of the stuff i read might not be true (At least game informer has a separate section).

I find it to be a lame waste of time.

I hate pranks more than just about anybody, but when things are hilarious and obviously fake like these things, I get a pretty good kick out of them.

Nice work, Blizzard!

Also, they made a script to add I lol'D IRL, lolwut,lol, lmao, kekeke, roflmao, or imo to the end of every sentence in forum posts.

Why can't these people take video games more seriously?!

Blizzard is crazy for making that ridiculous trailer for Molten Core. That had more production value than some movies.

Tuaren Marine Mod for Starcraft II CONFIRMED!

I think you meant "zeut alors!", not "zut alors." It's ok, some of us also took french in high school for years.

I actually love this day.

Kudos to Blizzard.

I cracked: the other day I bought Dawn of War Platinum Edition (all expansions included) instead of waiting until the day Starcraft II comes out. For 30 dollars, it was extremely tempting.

Eventually it shall quench my thirst for RTS.

Wow, I'm impressed. They have character models, concept art, trailers and the whole sha-banga-bang.

Battlestar Murlocica?

Am I the only guy here who actually wants Molten Core? Like, for serious?

Not bad. WoW for PS3 would be the same thing(mouse+keyboard & mod support). The consoles, not so much. StarCraft 64 was amazing, so StarCraft II for Wii should be fantastic!

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