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April Fools 2013 Thread

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So yesterday a few guys started going on about Guild Wars 2 having changed it music at the login screen. And it is true. You will be greeted by an 8-bit theme. Incidently there is a new "super adventure box" at Rata Sum (Asura capital) which is essensially themed as an 8-bit arcade adventure game of old. It is running for the entire month of April.

EA has done something for Mass Effect. The morning my brother got greeted with waves apon waves of the toughest enemies in the game but they were scaled down to the normal mob health. The rewards were huge though.

Blizzard changed the workers for Starcraft 2 for all races to something else. The WoW site has the crab chatting to you like the MS paper clip. Still haven't seen diablo 3s but will check in a moment.

Has anyone else seen some of the witty and clever stuff around?
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I could be just very sceptical but I think all these are April Fools pranks

Virgin's new see-through jet

Gmail Blue


Google Nose Beta

And youtube said they were ending the service
Youtube collects a winner

Mxlish to be our 12 official language
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https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/ ... 013/#close

The link to GW2 event. ...that vid

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Too lazy to repost all these links

So you can see them Here.
You need to go to the top post
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GoG with the Retromaster 4000

http://www.gog.com/retromator4000
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what?..

no maddox links? :lol:
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rustypup wrote:what?..

no maddox links? :lol:
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You'll have to excuse me but what is maddox?
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Tribble wrote: Gmail Blue
techcrunch wrote:If you were one of the three million people who watched Google’s Gmail Blue video yesterday and found yourself wondering just how horrible it’d be if it weren’t, you know, a joke — you’re in luck!

Thrown together overnight by developer Shon Dalezman, the aptly named “Gmail Blue” extension takes every terrible detail from the video (embedded below for good measure) and brings it to life. The “Compose” button? Blue. The word “Compose”? Blue. Underline? Blue!
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StarBound wrote:GoG with the Retromaster 4000

http://www.gog.com/retromator4000
That was a hoax? :sad:
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