Every April Fools day I try not to be a cynic. To me all of these “jokes” were tongue in cheek funny back when it wasn’t common place for every website, company, organization, and dog to come up with something for the sake of having a joke on April 1st. However, although I think of them as cliche now, I still find some enjoyment in the “jokes” that are well thought out.

Here are links to some of the better April Fool’s Day productions (I like that word better than joke now).

Legend of Zelda, the Movie. IGN gets credit for having the best AFD production this year. If not for the day I would have thought this to be real, albeit a little corny. Above and beyond the usual crap.

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Blizzard never fails to deliver the usual full on productions. This year, with their multiple titles and vast reach, they bring out the big guns.

For StarCraft 2: A Tauren Marine. Looks neat. Hope it’s in the game for real as a secret unit or at least in the map editor.

While most tauren were satisfied with their agrarian culture and primitive existence, the Confederacy was able to lure away large numbers of young bulls for a life of adventure and violence along the galactic rim. Other tauren referred to these adventurers as ‘mad cows,’ and they were ostracized from the rest of their kine. The newly created tauren marines didn’t care–they got neat-looking armor and big guns to own everyone else with. These beefy new soldiers are now an integral part of the Confederate military, and have managed to horn in on the roles traditionally filled by firebats and other infantry units.

For World of Wacraft: Molten Core, the Console game. They could have done better on this one I thought.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announces its long-awaited return to console gaming with World of Warcraft: The Molten Core^TM, a spinoff of the 40-person raid dungeon from its award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), World of Warcraft®. World of Warcraft: The Molten Core will allow players to experience the excitement of the hit raid dungeon in a completely new format, with new challenges and new rewards.

Another for World of Warcraft. A new class for Wrath of the Lich King: The Bard! Ironically I thought it was real at first glance — with the whole Activision CEO thing… anyway, I wouldn’t put it past them. God help us all.

To fuel his or her powers, the bard uses a brand-new resource system called “groove.” Selecting an ability launches the Fret Bar, which will display a number of riffs the player needs to activate using a new guitar-based keyboard peripheral that will ship with Wrath of the Lich King (a special Frostmourne-themed axe will be sold separately).

Blizzard continues to add more as I write this including a Diablo Pinata. Check out their official site since they will undoubtedly keep this up all day.

I’ll add more of the best jokes, er, productions to the list as I find them. Clicky the “more” to see any additions. (more…)