April Fool's Sampler @ Blues News

It's April First, and the tradition in the gaming community of alarming and improbable press releases and news posts is continued. Blues News has put together a compendium of such here, including my favorites, Scientists develop Video Games for Cats, (yes, that would be the Catbox360) and a Diablo III Announcement:

"With Diablo III, we'll do everything we wanted to do with the first two games and much, much more," pleaded Bill Roper, Senior Producer of Diablo II, whose team at Flagship Studios have abruptly moved Diablo III to their top priority. "We recognize that expectations are high but we plan to meet those expectations and deliver an engaging, action-packed, competitive experience that Diablo players and role-playing gamers worldwide will enjoy. Now will you let us go?"

And the Dominions 4: Succubi in Heat release isn't bad either:

Dominions 4: Succubi In Heat also boasts a brand new ASCII based graphics engine and a totally new combat system that puts YOU into the game! Called the Live Action Magical Engine Combat System, LAME works by the use of RFID chips. Each game comes with a thousand of these, easily attached to clothing through a velcro backing. When you enter combat you simply attach the RFID chips to a thousand of your closest friends, find a large open area, and then attack each other. The chips then transmit the coordinates and actions to the game's server, which then in turn translates it to the battle screen. Now YOU'RE in command of the battle!

Check out the link above for the rest of the April foolage.

More information.

It's missing the Blizzard announcement for today:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/moltencore/

I really think his would be a very cool ideal, though:

http://wow-europe.com/wrath/features/bard/bardclass.xml

This bard sounds awesome - although he is fictional and and an April Fool's Bard.

I like this one - Microsoft Ditches Windows Mobile, Goes iPhone