These are the best April Fools' jokes, the one's believable enough to be real that actually do become real. Skullgirls: Encour developer Lab Zero Games might be willing to keep its April Fools' joke character as a permanent addition to the game, depending on fan reaction. Fukua, the joke character, was created as a clone of one of the game's leading protagonists, Filia. Many have...
April Fools' is all good and fun, but how do you know you are going too far? The folks at Frostbite and DICE had a pretty good joke on their official Twitter page claiming that the Wii U was now capable of supporting the Frostbite 3 engine. However, the ghost of April Fools reared his evil head and these posts sadly proved to be untrue, leaving thousands of Nintendo fans angry and...
While many people find April Fools’ on the Internet annoying, we find it’s full of awesome things that we wish were real products. We’ve gathered up 10 that we would love to see be real (well, the Netflix one is real in that you can watch it right now), but sadly they will just exist in our dreams. Airbnb Airbnb has had a lot of success with helping people rent out their homes, but...
Wearables may very well be the next big trend in technology, but we doubt we’ll be picking up any of these Internet-connected gloves anytime soon. For an April Fools prank Samsung, HTC and Toshiba all unveiled their own takes on the “futuristic” technology. Samsung Fingers If any company is actually developing a SmartGlove it’s probably Samsung, which seems to have an...
Either its April Fools’ Day, or Google really had a ton of new products and services to announce today. Google is known for taking April 1 fairly, well, seriously, with some of the most elaborate April Fools’ jokes on the Web. Here’s a run down of what the company had in store for its users this year. Viral Video Trends for 2014 YouTube is giving us a sneak peek of what the viral...
Brace yourselves, April Fool’s is coming. You know how I know? Right, a calendar. But, do you know how else I know? Google’s rolling out a ridiculous product idea, and this time it centers around Pokémon. The video above is a huge part of the joke, so watch it before rolling on. On iOS or Android, update Google Maps, tap the search bar, tap Press Start and you’ll be flung to the...