It's that time of year to scroll through your regular news feed with a smirk or a sigh - yes, 1st April has once again produced a raft of video game-based porky pies to rifle through. While we did briefly flirt with the idea of announcing the 'Nintendo Lite Switch', we decided against it - mainly because the industry at the moment is producing so many curve balls that even the most far-fetched rumours can't be dismissed offhand. Xbox One lifetime console exclusive Cuphead coming to Nintendo Switch!? You better believe it.
Below we've rounded up the best of the gags relating to Nintendo and the wider world of video games. Twitter is the favoured platform for these pranks and japes but you'll find plenty more information by following the links within. With the world rotating as it does, we're sure there'll be more cropping up over the coming hours as people in the Americas wake up - we'll be sure to update with the choicest cuts as-and-when they come.
Ready to laugh? Ready to groan? Here we go!
Square Kirby?
It seems HAL has really gone to town with Kirby this year - check out his website for some cuboid Kirby goodness where his official artwork has been replaced.
And round Qbby?
Responding to Kirby in a tweet, Qbby (hero of HAL's 3DS BOXBOY! trilogy and the upcoming BOXBOY! + BOXGIRL!) appears to have met up with the pink one for a few drinks (he can really put them away!), got along famously, one thing led to another and...
Ash photobombs Pokémon GO
PlatinumGames enters the self-publishing business
New Monster Hunters for Nintendo Switch
We got a tiny bit excited with this one.
Rabbids invade For Honor
Weird one, this. Mainly because it's actually happening (for 24 hours).
The good old days of Worms on... Teletext?
New 18-teraflop console announced
Yours for a trifling $15.000:
New Sniper Elite Announced
Capcom debuts a new shooter
Try Capcom's latest shooter, Mr President!
Kirby helps around the house
Check out this Kirby-based Roomba:
What The F-Zero?
GameXplain playing with our hearts.
Snake comes to Google Maps
Now get this on Stadia. Remember when you could play Pac-Man on Google Maps? Talk about killer apps! This will reportedly be live for a week or so.
IGN hosts the latest Nintendo Direct
Top marks for effort.
Exclusive reveal of Rare Replay 64
10 Rare games, including GoldenEye 007, coming to Switch, according to Vooks:
SEGA Mega CD Mini confirmed
Telford branch of UK retailer GAME bagged an exclusive reveal:
https://twitter.com/GAMETelford/status/1112490002821402624
Nintendo Switch Book Sleeve gives your Switch(es) a 3DS-style makeover
Inky Pen details the 'cutting edge close-open technology':
Splatoon Island announced for mobile
It's no Miitomo, but we'd play it:
... and the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account strikes again
Always good value.
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Ah, it's all in good fun! Did any of these catch your eye, if only for a second? Let us know in the comments.
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Let the madness begin
Such lame April’s fools....none will ever match the EGM one which revealed Sheng Long to be a secret character in Street Fighter 2.
That Platinum dealie was hilarious. And I still often chuckle over the NLife Splatoon Legends reveal from a few years back.
I was hoping y’all would have a good one yourselves... oh well
The For Honor one is amazing!
Ubisoft, keep the joke in as a mode after April 1st and you got a new player XD
Eh, I feel like that Monster Hunter one is literally just them using today to bring up a game that almost certainly will happen in one form or another.
Love the Teletext version of Worms. I remember Teletext as a kid--so retro cool.
Hmmm... I can't get the Kirby one to work. These are still funny though!
Almost feels like a missed opportunity to announce Cuphead today instead. The troll value would be up there with last year's Skyrim port.
And that moment when you click on a blogpost and get reminded that you're old enough to have seen and used teletext yourself...😆
Believe it or not, i actually made a Square Kirby drawing on Janunary 9th. Man, i sure foreshadowed something.
@impurekind Bamboozle for Switch
Here's Gamexplains.....
https://youtu.be/n0-6IcyR-3w
Ouch that Monster Hunter one actually looks legit which is sad
Loved the worms one
it's almost like they know what we want, and mock us with it. I need a roomby
@TempOr The low effort doesn't bother me, NO effort should be put into these "jokes." April Fools Day really is just the worst.
No hard feelings for anyone that feels differently though. Opinions vary.
Sooo... was Teletext Worms a thing... or is the April Fool that it used to be a thing but it actually wasn't... I'm confused...
Nintendo should make an F-Zero announcement today just to piss everyone off (No seriously it would make me angry)
A Kirby vacuum well that is a great idea
The Monster Hunter one hurts.
out of all of them, i like snake for google maps the best. besides it has the highest likelihood of actually happening. besides as it is google changes their home page every so often to match the different holidays. them adding a game of snake could go unnoticed.
Loving the ‘Fun? Never heard of it!’ attitude from a few people here...
Thanks for making this list. I always liked having quick access to multiple April Fool's jokes and they get taken down so quickly.
I'm a bit sad to not see a Nintendo Life joke article, though... :/
Feh being summonable in Fire Emblem Heroes is a good one. Nintendo put a lot of effort into that video.
Saw this one on Facebook: points for being almost believable in the age of Cuphead
https://www.vooks.net/exclusive-rare-returns-to-nintendo-with-rare-replay-64-collection-with-goldeneye-007/?fbclid=IwAR3i-lQ_T19U_eUoypk5KFyFYykYVZTaPkThXsiHNTSbDHPXrUfSUKX6qzQ
I simultaneously love and hate the internet on April 1st. Many of the pranks are fun and enjoyable, but there's always that teensy bit of longing that a couple of them would be real....Like Rare Replay 64.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play some Snake in Google Maps.
I really thought Nintendo was going to do Waluigi for smash.
@Spoony_Tech it's their April Fool's video , oh dear Jesus-Christ !!!! 😍😍😍😍😉😂😂😂😂😉
Rare Replay 64 is... I just can't handle this being a joke. 😩
Dang, Rare Replay for Switch should be a real thing.
Eh, Splatoon Island looks real to me.
...wait, Monster Hunter did a joke?
Don't mess with me like that, Capcom. >:c
The Bloodstained: Bloodstained edition "announcement" from the Ritual of the Night Kickstarter was hilarious: A $999 edition that is literally packaged in a bag of IGA's blood.
https://twitter.com/Splatoon_FRA/status/1112579640223326208
Translation:
To achieve perfect balance of all of #Splatoon2 weapons, ink will be removed in the next update!
I'd play Splatoon Island.
Some of these are just downright hurtful. Rare replay and monster hunter are nothing to joke about.
That Splatoon mobile game looked something that we need as an actual console release.
The one day bullet hell shooter mini-game Notte's Slumber Shot was the best one (Dragalia Lost) even if it was not listed. A different change of pace from the usual genre & game play.
Less of a trick, more of a treat but I'll take this type of fun versus a prank.
Here's one. I got a bit of a laugh from it.
The ign-one is the best!
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