Almost every day is April Fools’ Day in the video game industry, judging by the amount of crazy and amazing news. However, here is an opportunity to laugh at the obvious jokes that the developers have prepared for us.
Times are tough for the video game industry – you know that if you follow the news daily. Fortunately, the developers did not lose their sense of humor even in that gloomy period. On the occasion of “April Fool’s Day” we received a whole series of fake announcements, so here is a short summary of the best ones we spotted on the internet today.
There was everything. SEGA has announced that their logo will have 3% more blue in the future. Capcom admitted that the upcoming Pragmata is actually the new Mega Man. PUBG has thrown in a hide and seek mode with fake items. Artificial intelligence was one of the main motifs in April Fools’ Day pranks.
CD Projekt once again made a joke about the horse Roach in Witcher, announcing a controller in the shape of a horse’s head. And with motion tracking, no less!
What do we get when military simulation ARMA becomes a farming simulator? Of course – a game called FARM! And we know it’s a joke, but hey – maybe the idea itself isn’t bad. One has to wonder…
For April Fool’s Day, Ubisoft decided to confuse For Honor players with a simple trick. Everything in the game is temporary… on the wrong side. More precisely, everything is like a mirror.
Payday 3 is a bad game, so it’s hard to make fun of it, but this one is good for them: a new perspective for the game – you play as a civilian in the middle of a robbery. I mean, it’s not even a bad idea – you could make this a stealth title and sell it as a Die Hard game!
The developers of the Pathfinder games poke fun at Valve and their Steam Machine console. The console is said to run up to 60 fps in 8K resolutions – mostly.
Crusader Kings players don’t really care about graphics. But what if the characters got an AI filter before DLSS 5? Is it historical revisionism?
IGN has prepared a pretty convincing joke about a PlayStation AI assistant that does the opposite of what it’s told to do. Again, we know it’s a joke, but we bet Sony is really working on something like this.