The Best of the April Fool’s Day Gaming Pranks

Videogaming April Fool’s Day pranks are a time-honored tradition. Lest you get caught with your pants down, here’s a rundown of the best ones you might come across in your travels across the internets today.
Guild Wars Gets Sticky

ArenaNet had a little surprise in store for Guild Wars players today. All characters seemed to have lost a few pounds.
Assassin’s Solid
Jade Raymond and Hideo Kojima teamed up to bring us a very special treat.
Grand Theft Auto IV Leaked Trailer 5
GameTrailer’s user ‘Grave’ managed to hack into a super-secret press FTP site and has leaked the fifth, super-secret Grand Theft Auto IV trailer.
World of Lolcraft

Blizzard always seems to dominate April Fool’s. They’re not only releasing an update to World of Warcraft that includes a brand new character class, the ‘Bard…’

…but the console port of WoW is finally on the way!
Oh, Microsoft

Microsoft’s got a slew of new products coming out, including an Xbox Live boardgame and Xbox 360 vintage edition.
Beyond Unreal Goes Beyond, Also Unreal
Epic sure knows how to be self-deprecating.
FoxToid
Destructoid is being extra-sassy today, sporting yet another redesign and a collection of features including an interview with Jack Thompson and allegations that Geoff Keighley’s copy of Mass Effect did something to someone.

