April Fools' Alert #14: How the MMOs get their prank on

by Ross Miller on Apr 1st 2008 11:20PM

With only so much time left in the day, we thought we'd fit in a handful of the gros amount of April Fools' pranks found in the various MMOs today.

Age of Conan announces the Elf class (If you think this is real, check out the creation video)
Guild War turns everyone into stick figures, making us pine for a Xiao Xiao MMO
Dungeons & Dragons Online introduces Pimp My Warforged
The Battle for Middle Earth gets their chicken on
World of Warcraft developer Blizzard does their usual thing

Speaking of WoW, our Azeroth-obsessed sister site converted to Hello Kitty Insider for a day of mass coverage (30+ posts!). Here's what their front page looked like today.

Tags: age-of-conan, aprilfools08, battle-for-middle-earth, blizzard, ddo, dungeons-dragons-online, guild-wars, hello-kitty, lord-of-the-rings, lotr, world-of-warcraft, wow

Reader Comments (2)

Most frightening to me is that I cannot figure out if the linked Hello Kitty Online site is fake or not. It seems very authentic and Sanrio-ish, but it also mentions a Hello Kitty Island Adventure add-on, which I am pretty sure is the game that Butters on Southpark played instead of WOW. I am baffled. Bravo...bravo.

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Kudos to Guildwars.

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April Fools' Alert #14: How the MMOs get their prank on

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Posted: Apr 1st 2008 11:28PM edgore said

Posted: Apr 2nd 2008 2:33AM ThornedVenom said