April Fools' Alert #15: A potpourri of nonsense

by Alexander Sliwinski { Apr 1st 2008 at 11:40PM }

As we bid adieu to this All Fools' Day, it's time to take a broom to the leftover balderdash and sweep it out of the house so we can start fresh and clean tomorrow.

Straightgamer.net -- OH NO! The boys over at GayGamer.net went to "therapy" and are now devout heterosexuals. Now all they can talk about is boobs, beer and babes. That's so not fierce!
Lego Halo -- 1Up reposted EGM's April issue gag for the internets.
Wii Want More -- A Wii downloadable content service?! ROFLCOPTERBBQ
Brain Age Mobile for iPhone -- The Wiicast does a very subtle trick that any other day of the year might be believable.
Reggie talks Earthbound -- Starmen.net spliced together some clips and gets Monsieur Fils-Aime talking frankly about Nintendo's thoughts on Earthbound in America.
N64 games ported to DS -- Vooks.net got the scoop on some N64 titles being "retooled & refreshed" for the handheld.
Final Fantasy XIII demo and Final Fantasy VII remake -- PSXExtreme didn't even try to be witty, they just went for some painful lies.

Tags: aprilfools08, brain-age-mobile, ffxiii, gaygamer, gaygamer.net, interview, lego-halo, n64, wii-want-more

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jhongerkong @ Apr 1st 2008 11:45PM

The thing about the wii want more thing is that its dated March 29....

DUN, DUN, DUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNN!!!!

off topic: potpurri d'orange is an awesome song

BPM X: Soul Eraser [SSBB: 5026 4120 1186] @ Apr 1st 2008 11:49PM

But notice the URL.

press-nintendo.110mb.com
instead of
press.nintendo.com

When I first viewed that the other day, I thought it was legit, too. What a downer.

Jhongerkong @ Apr 1st 2008 11:51PM

HOLD IT

http://press-nintendo.110mb.com/ (without anything else) leads to the main press site...

THE PLOT THICKENS

BPM X: Soul Eraser [SSBB: 5026 4120 1186] @ Apr 1st 2008 11:54PM

No, it doesn't. It's a hoax. They just copied the source code of the official press site and uploaded it to 110mb, but added the faux press release of Wii DLC.

Jhongerkong @ Apr 2nd 2008 12:01AM

You may be smart but you dont know much about not breaking peoples dreams...

BPM X: Soul Eraser [SSBB: 5026 4120 1186] @ Apr 2nd 2008 1:09AM

Trust me, pal, I wish it were true, too. :(

But, reality's harsh like that, ya know?

Howl Pendragon @ Apr 1st 2008 11:45PM

w00t first post!

BPM X: Soul Eraser [SSBB: 5026 4120 1186] @ Apr 1st 2008 11:49PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/BPMdotEXE/Macros/SmashFailure.jpg

Howl Pendragon @ Apr 1st 2008 11:53PM

Why do people always degrade me?

I have smart posts on Joystiq. Examples:

"Wii has no good games"

"PS3 is better then 360"

"Halo is bad"

"PSP is better then DS gameplay wise because of RSS feeds"

w00t 2nd post!

BPM X: Soul Eraser [SSBB: 5026 4120 1186] @ Apr 1st 2008 11:55PM

Hmm... Going through your entire post history, I don't see any smart posts. Just biased, fanboy drivel.

Did you perhaps make these smart posts under a different name?

rTwelve @ Apr 2nd 2008 1:35AM

BPM when you post just a link like that its harder for me to tell how much you got upvoted

:(

Shmil (Brawl Code 2621-2310-1994) @ Apr 2nd 2008 1:42AM

you're not funny
go away

GrrArgghh @ Apr 1st 2008 11:45PM

I love Cruel Intentions.
And the Lego Halo joke almost made me cry.

Gun Barrier (=Gamer Tag) SSBB: 3952-6696-7009 @ Apr 1st 2008 11:46PM

wii hardrive....

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f121/darkants/wiihardrive.jpg

Howl Pendragon @ Apr 1st 2008 11:51PM

I bet if you go to google search "Wii HDD petition" and find a petetion and sign it Nintendo will bring HDD to Wii!

BPM X: Soul Eraser [SSBB: 5026 4120 1186] @ Apr 1st 2008 11:52PM

Seriously, the deal with EarthBound is really annoying.

1) How difficult is it to upload it to VC, huh?!
2) Was it really necessary to remove the Masterpiece from Smash Bros. Brawl? (The Japanese version had a demo of Mother 2 (EarthBound for Super NES)).
3) Both Mother (EarthBound Zero) and Mother 2 (EarthBound) have been officially translated (in the case of the NES one, never officially released), so why did we never get Mother 1+2 on GBA?

It's ridiculous...