There’s some good ones
April Fools is here again, and for some the best way to fight the weaponization of it in the games industry is to log off the ‘net entirely. I totally get it, even if I’m used to triple-checking things and even if April Fools jokes occasionally become real. So, here’s an easy to browse compilation of a bunch of teases and japes for April Fools 2019.
Aping Alexa seems to be the in thing for the past several years, with several April Fools jokes centering around a far-future or otherwise dangerous AI living in your home. One of my favorite things is when publishers go the extra mile and make their fake games playable. For that reason the Street Fighter V president shoot ’em up (with a High Score Girl tie-in) takes the cake.
Feel free to share some of your favorites below!
- 3-Bit Worms
- WayForward joke iconic game character tease (Piranha Plant, Pac-Man, Sack Boy, Pikachu)
- Platinum Games “New IP”
- Rainbow Six Siege Rainbow is Magic
- Capcom’s “Sound AI”
- Magic Arena adds Googly Eyes to deck boxes (love this!)
- Super Limited fake PlayStation merch for 25th anniversary
- Bloodstained: Bloodstained Edition
- GeForce RTX R.O.N. assistant
- NIS’ “Murder Detective” is now “Chibi Detective”
- Resident Evil 2 zombie “help wanted” ad
- Corsair game launcher
- Payday Royale
- Kirby is now square
- Minecraft 3D (1994)
- Fake Earth Defense Force 6 rap
- Final Fantasy XIV Alexa-like Home Assistant Omega
- Nobunyaga’s Ambition as an eSport
- Straight from the header: MegaRockEXE’s fake Smash spirits
- Harada enters Tekken 7 as DLC
- Devil May Cry 5 joke character DLC
- Remedy’s Control in technicolor mode
- Fire Emblem Heroes official Legendary Owl Feh joke reveal
- Conan Chop Chop from Funcom
- The aforementioned playable Street Fighter V president shoot ’em up
- Lovers of Aether, a Rivals of Aether dating sim spinoff
