April fools day round up

-Anthony Beanes
Director

There were a lot of April fool jokes around the gaming industry today and there were some that I found that were good.

Lets start with Bungie's, halo chess. As the tone of them are trying to make this serious about the direction of playing chess It was pretty funny how they showed it. Ironically, This actually looks cool, not in the prospective of having it 1st person, but if they had it over the top view and be able to control the models around then that would I can get into.

Next is the never gets old, crouch hit only replace hit with bite and with a dog. Yea, it makes fun of a politician that is against violence in video games and is giving his reasons while a dog behind him is barking at them and then gets loose and bites the guys crouch. You hear a crunchy sound when the dog bites him lol.

Video Games | Dead to Rights: Retribution | Enough is Enough Trailer HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Blizzard seems to have a few jokes going around, the battle.net has always been a place for people to come to, to play against one another in either Starcarft, Warcraft, WoW, or Diablo. But now they can find their match made in heaven girl. yea this seems to be one of the my favorites so far lol.

Video Games | Battle.net | Matchmaking Services Debut Trailer

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Along side with this, they put on thier website the Diablo 3 xtreme gamer blanket to use whenever you get cold and need to raise your tempature of your body to level up faster in the game. Also they suggest to get thier Deckard Cain GPS voice pack to bring out the devil inside your little car. Bravo Blizzard, barvo indeed.

http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/community/merchandise/gamerblanket/index.xml

http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/community/merchandise/gps/index.xm

Alan Wake is looked at as an action game, but with a very interesting story driving it, well it looks like they changed their minds on this game. Now introducing Alan Wake: Wars where its more of RTS then anything else!

Video Games | Alan Wake | Alan Wake Wars Trailer

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Last but not least, The Civilization series has taken a new approach to their next game to bring more of the fighter gamers by making Extreme Diplomacy Death Match. Now you get to choose not only who you want to be but also fight the worlds most influential figures in history! Gandhi vs George Washington anyone? Play as you unlock multiple moves like:

• George Washington's Uncle Slam Attack
• Oda Nobunaga's Tsunami Train Attack
• Otto von Bismarck's Hurricane Helmet Spike Attack
• Ramesses II's Phalanx of the Leopard Army
• Montezuma's Revenge of the Aztec Army
• Napoleon's Complex Military Strike
  
  
  

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/63106