We all know what today was and, true to form, the gaming press have come up with some decent April Fools pranks this year. Five of my faves are below:
1. Sony to release “PlayStation: Scent” : With the motion-sensing PlayStation Move controller coming later this year, Sony is now targeting your nose with the PlayStation: Scent, “a revolutionary technology that allows scent information to be recorded onto Blu-Ray discs.” That’s pretty implausible, but the idea of using smells in videogames isn’t so far out . A big, fat “A+” for the PhotoShop fakery, chaps. [ Webhallen , via Joystiq ]
2. BlizzCon 2010 has sold out… before tickets go on sale : If you thought tickets to Blizzard’s annual love-in dried up quickly in 2009, you’ll need a flux capacitor-equipped DeLorean and a wire-haired mad scientist friend to get in this year. [INCGamers]
3. The Halo movie is REAL : Or perhaps not. The mocked-up trailer below is reportedly for the abandoned (but now “revived”) Halo film, and comes from IGN, previously famous for its impressive fake Zelda movie trailer (see that here ). [IGN]
4. Forthcoming strategy title Civilisation V to get “Extreme Diplomacy” game mode : Included in this list for this image alone: [Via press release]
5. Nintendo games on iPad!!!!1!1!!!11 : But seriously, how utterly rubbish would an on-screen Wiimote be? “Very rubbish” is the correct answer. [PlaySwitch, via Joystiq]
