APRIL FOOL ! Yes, it’s the start of the funniest month of the year (or not) and in terms of video games, the news has been a lot of fun. The best of the best valves this April 1, 2023.
Like every year on April 1st, everything you find on the internet has to be grabbed with even bigger tweezers than usual. The jokes and fake news are legion and things are not going well with the explosion of social media. Still, some companies take it very seriously and aren’t afraid to make clever or well-sought jokes. Needless to say, the information below is all April Fools’ jokes.
A small selection of April Fools’ Day 2023
It sometimes even happens that the Blagounette goes beyond the simple April Fool’s joke, for example this year with Sega, which, by trolling Sonic fans, simply created a small free game. Or even Hyper X, who did not hesitate to communicate on his “revolutionary” helmet as if it were a real accessory. We also had the right to new (or almost) new Ubisoft games and revolutionary technologies that would change mobile game development forever.
Hyper X H2O helmet
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Nintendo launches with AI on April 1st
What if Nintendo jumped into AI? It’s a question that our comrades at Nintendo Actu, who have come up with a superpowered assistant for Nintendo Switch, ask themselves with some humor. According to the Fake News, this AI would be able to chew the work for us in games, giving us solutions to puzzles on the fly, even going so far as to modify games in real-time to make our lives easier. This is also known as extreme accessibility.
If the industry is getting more and more interested in AI, we are not there yet. For the moment…
Sonic is dead OMG!
Sega told us that 2023 was going to be a big year for Sonic, but we weren’t ready for that either. To gently troll its fans, Sega has created a small narrative investigation game that pays homage to the entire universe of its mascot, but not only. This game, available for free on Steam, titled The Murder of Sonic, is a point and click type of game with some mini-games. The player is asked to investigate the tragic death of the poor blue hedgehog who was murdered on the birthday of one of his friends. It’s up to you to find out who is behind this heinous crime.
A mobile development studio revolutionizes its industry and more
kwalee, a UK-based mobile games specialist, announces that it has developed technology that has the potential to revolutionize game development. This innovation, dubbed Mind Games, is based on a state-of-the-art device, the FOOL (Fast Organic Open Loop), and allows games to be created through simple mind power. Just that. After AI and powerful tools like those of Unreal Engine 5, already very helpful in development, this new exclusive program from Kwalee would make things even easier since it would be enough… to think to create . But it’s still experimental. Unfortunately, if the company says they’re very happy with this innovation, they can’t guarantee it’s safe. In any case, the marketing vice president hopes that everything will be fine. Isn’t that how The Evil Within starts anyway?
We are very excited about the potential of mind games. It’s a truly revolutionary technology that can impact the gaming industry and open up new avenues for creativity and innovation. We see mind games as something positive rather than a source of existential horror, and we can’t wait to see how people react to the thousands of games that Kwalee can bring to reality each week when we mass-market it introduce .
Harry Lang, Kwalee’s vice president of marketing before he fled the studio (according to sources familiar with the press release we received)
Ubisoft releases new games in April, only spin-offs!
Ubisoft also eased the pressure a bit for April 1st by announcing the imminent arrival of a number of games in its catalogue. The French publisher therefore presents Templar’s Creed, for those who are fed up with assassins, Walkers Republic, which should offer the same thing as Riders Republic but to be done on foot, Rainbow Seven Siege, the long-awaited sequel to the famous FPS . And finally The Intelligent Rabbits, the little adventure. Well, it’s not the joke of the year, but it’s fun to celebrate the occasion. He could have made the point by announcing a release date for Beyond Good & Evil 2 and another postponement for Skull and Bones, but they dared not.
Fallout London presents us with a unique gameplay sequence
The Fallout London fan game is long overdue and should offer something relatively solid by Bethesda’s Fallout 5. This major Fallout 4 mod has been in development for quite some time and is delighting fans with its mesmerizing post-apocalyptic London. The game, which is still in production, featured a gameplay sequence designed specifically for April Fool’s Day. We can say that it moves quite a bit!
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