Teh Funnay!

Apr 01, 2005 8:23am CST tags: Valve, Blizzard, Wack News, April Fools
A round-up of today's gaming/hardware related April Fools jokes. If you find anything else post in the thread and it will get added.
- Beyond Unreal has the Unreal 3: Slug Saga - The Adventures of Ne'ban press release.
- Sven Co-op is adding a flight sim mode.
- Hexus sues Beyond3D for not going beyond 3D. They also look at AMD's GPU.
- From Voodoo Extreme: Blizzard merges WoW with Guild Wars, Carmack contacts aliens on cell phone, people want the Phantom, Fox's Prey reality show.
- Gabe Newell is leaving Valve.
- QuakeCon taken over by Imps.
- The Game Gear returns.
- Doomworld, I'd hit it.
- World of Wordcraft announced.
- Multiplay UK has word of Frogger Online.
- Avatar change on the World of Warcraft forums.
- Blizzard & Pandaren Xpress hook up for a /panda command in World of Warcraft.
- Apple is coming out with the gPod.
- The iTreoPod is reviewed by CNET.
- In Star Wars Galaxies Ewoks are now armed and extremely dangerous.
- European World of Warcraft players get Warbucks coffee.
- Halo 2 Multiplayer Eggstravaganza.
        

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