Another April Fool's Day

Well, let's see... Massively saved me a lot of effort by doing a roundup of MMO-related foolishness. Crabby, the dungeon helper, is cute. Of them all, I think I'm inclined to give kudos this year to the Guild Wars team with their commando class for GW2 - partly because that just looks neat and partly because they went the extra mile and put them in GW for a holiday event. It's just a short quest, and you don't get a rifle, but you get to play as a commando through a mission helping someone from the future save Gwen's mother Sarah from an Annihilator robot sent back to kill her.

Blizzard also has motion sensitive console Starcraft 2 and a Horadric Cube app which needs to be real (the disclaimers are worth it alone).

White Wolf has a Paths of Storytelling supplement for Vampire.

Sequential Art puts out its last comic ever and reveals all.

Google gets in on the motion-sensing wave of technology and lets your manipulate your email with body language as well as a similar interface for Google Docs.

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  1. kyn_elwynnApril 2, 2011 at 1:57 AM

    Google also has openings for a position of predictive text filling in and fixing potential typos. WoW had Patch 4.1.11 notes in addition to everything else going on Blizzard's site (Like Crabby and the new 5-man Dungeon in Duskwood.) Star Wars/Wookieepedia had a remastered Star Wars Holiday Special DVD announcement. Some of the internet reviewers I watch did reviews in the style of other reviewers (so it's not funny unless you know who they're spoofing) or outright had their show taken down.

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