As Usual, Blizzard Has The Best April Fools’ Joke

Every year in the world of video games, there are two certainties: 1) Half-Life 3 will not be announced; and 2) Blizzard will have the best April Fools’ joke around. This year’s prank is Blizzard: Outcasts, a hypothetical fighting game that features some of the lesser-known characters in Blizzard’s various universes, like the Treasure Goblin…

How To Find Pokémon On Google Maps

Today as part of an April Fool’s prank, Google updated Google Maps for iOS and Android to include Pokémon. Let’s try to find all of them! There are at least 150 Pokémon currently floating around on Google Maps. All you have to do is zoom in, tap on them and select “catch”. Here are just…

This spectacular, Kirby-branded Game Boy Color would have been treasured by any self-respecting gamer of the nineties. The artist behind the custom handheld is French illustrator Oskunk—you can find more photos of his projects over at his blog Custom Game Boy Color “KIRBY” [Oskunk’s Blog, via Tumblr] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every…

South Korean Kids Pull Hardcore April Fools’ Pranks

In South Korea, you shouldn’t trust everything you read online today. Nor should you trust everything you see in the classroom. With Korean kids in school in April, some of them—but certainly not all—take advantage of April Fools’ Day to pull some pranks. Some of them get pretty dark! This has been going on a…

Sakura Trick is My Favorite Anime of the Winter Season

The 2014 winter anime season was full of over-the-top action, tongue-in-cheek comedy, and interesting thought experiments. But even with all those possibilities, the anime I most looked forward to wasn’t one of those, but rather the lesbian romantic comedy Sakura Trick. Here’s why. A Real Love Story All too often, TV, books, movies, and especially…

Longest Journey Creator’s Next Game is “Gone Home Meets Amnesia“

More specifically, it is a survival horror-adventure game. Inspired by fairy tales and legends. It is called Draugen—a name taken from a certain undead creaturefrom Norse mythology. It was first presented by developer Red Thread Games last October, and it takes place in a small Norwegian fishing village in 1923. There’s also… actually, let me…

Polluted Chinese City Gets Bags of Clean Mountain Air

While today is April 1st, this is apparently no joke. The air quality in Chinese city Zhengzhou is awful and listed as “unhealthy.” That’s why late last month, bags of air were brought in for its citizens to get a taste of clean mountain air. At the March 29 event, people lined up to breath…

Amazon Boxes Reborn as a Remote Controlled Tank

Remember the cardboard wizard who turned Amazon boxes into a Japanese temple? Well, he’s back, and this time, he’s created a remote control cardboard model tank. In the video below, you can see NicoNico Douga user Upuaza Touryou create a Type 97 Chi-Ha, which was used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the late 1930s…

Some of Japan’s Best April Fools’ Jokes

Today is April 1st. Be wary! There are some pranks and tricks online that you might fall for. Some of them are not very good. But some of them are. Let’s have a look. Japanese manga Weekly Shonen Jump, a magazine for young boys, is turned into Jumpteen, a magazine for teenage girls. [Weekly Jump]…

Imagining Mara Jade And Teenage Leia in Star Wars Rebels

Star Wars Rebels poster, part of a series of illustrations imagining classic, Clone Wars and Expanded Universe characters in the upcoming Rebels cartoon: These and more, including Thrawn, Echo, and Maul, are on display in Englelha5t’s gallery.

It Is Now April 1. Don’t Believe Everything You Read On The Internet.

Most days on the internet are pretty sweet! Today, however, is not sweet. It is an ordeal, something to be endured through gritted teeth. Please, tread carefully. There’ll be folks out there thinking they’re funny, when really, they’re not. There’ll be folks out there thinking they’re clever, when really, whatever brilliant scheme they’ve got cooked…

Geez, Buddy, You Look Like You’ve Had A Real Bad Day

Not many artists get to put “Killzone” and “erotic PC adventure” on the same CV, but hey, Andrejs Skuja does. In the two years since we last took a look at his work, he’s helped out on another Killzone game, the adult PC title Seduce Me and even something new for Guerilla that, like most…