April Fools 2k
Cosmo and crew wades through the web for making a collection of somehow game-related April Fools of year 2000...
Written by Axel "Cosmo" Sjøstedt
Published 2nd April 2000
- All 1st April stories over on Slashdot is in pig latin, l33t speak and foreign languages...
- ps2web.com reports that Nintendo buys Sony and announces the PlayTendo!
- AGN's April Fool's news show has a lot of stupid stories to watch.
- GameSpot UK releases exclusive Sims Sex Patch...
- The power of Linux® and the features of Microsoft Office® come together in Microsoft® Office 2000 for Linux® on camelot.ca... Be sure to check out the cover!
- Digi.no has the news (in Norwegian) that "Kristen Nygaard got patent on object orientoring", they will sue Microsoft and IBM for a lot of money... Read Related Articles too.
- Salon cyberporn conspiracy XXXclusive describes how Bill Gates and Richard Mellon Scaife used large, firm breasts to destroy Linux.
- CLAN 9MILLIMETER took over SomethingAwful.com, and said "y0uV3 pr0bably n0t1ct3d 1v3 h4X0r3d 3m"...
- AVault previews the Intellimouse Explorer Plus, an upcoming mouse from Microsoft without buttons!
- Hexus.com announces that 3dfx Interactive will acquire Nvidia on Hexus.com
- New feature on Salon: Brilliant Careers - Satan...
- EQVault has a new EverQuest patch...
- ClassicGaming.com has put up details on the newly-announced Atari 15600 console system.
- Force3d.com reports that Compaq will acquire AMD and nVidia (ugh).
- Google has put up an alternative search engine (sick).
- Dogfighter.com has put up a review of Palmbirds 1.04 for Palm OS
- Daily Radar: Star Wars Episode II Script Revealed unveils the script before the authors writes it!
- Counter-Strike.Net has, uh, been replaced by "Michael Strike".
- PyroPort reports that Descent 4 has been cancelled...
- PlanetUnreal goes over to pure ASCII to save money on bandwidth and don't need to look for broken images tags... That actually screwed up all the headline-sniffing here for a moment.
- Adventure Gamer reports: Sierra and LucasArts to merge.
- Doomworld and Doom Nation have traded places.
- PlanetMoon Central unveils new Giants info
- DiabloII.Net puts up details on an upcoming secret 6th character: The Baker...
- Converted2 has put up an announcment: The McDonald's Q3A modification.
- The folks at FilePlanet has put up a fake Rocket Arena 3 server for your pleasure...
- BetaNews reposrts that Win2K has been recalled (erm)...
- Gamecenter.Com has filled their main page up with lame jokes.
- "Red Storm Announces Name Changes For 2000 Product Line-Up" is an official press release announcing that U.F.S. Vanguard will be renamed to 2000 Space Game of the Year, in addition to Freedom: First Resistance, which now will be sold under the name 2000 Action/Adventure Game of the Year (AAGY2K). There are also some kick-ass covers right here.
- PlanetQuake now hosts id Software.
- Lucas apologizes for Jar Jar Binks on scifi.ign.com.
- TRIBES 2 Players reports that Dynamix and Bungie are teaming up on a project combining TRIBES 3 and HALO 2, as well as having a link to the leaked alpha of TRIBES 2...
- Planetfortress has word that Microsoft aquires Valve Software!
- Soldier-of-Fortune.com announces Soldier of Fortune: Part Deux...
- SOFCenter also unveils the Soldier of Fortune 2 details...
- FiringSquad reports that the master Quake player is retiring from the shooter scene to concentrate on being a Pokémon trainer.
- On the Pokemen subject, GameFAQs becomes PokéFAQs.
Kudos goes to n.a.f, ano, some folks on ICQ, myself, as well as PlanetSmurf.
