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Wii Fit Says April Fools [April Fool's Day]
kotaku.com - 4/1/2009
Wii Fit Says April Fools [April Fool's Day]
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This is pretty neat. Booting up your copy of Wii Fit today will earn you a couple of pretty obvious April Fool's jokes. Reader Andrew shipped us these two pictures, one showing the Wii Fit claiming that it's broken and another hinting that the Wii Fit may lie about your Body Test results.  ...
The Cruelest April Fool's Joke In Japan [Otaku]
kotaku.com - 4/1/2009
The Cruelest April Fool's Joke In Japan [Otaku]
— kotaku.com — This is going to be hard to top. Japanese website Akiba Blog has run a post saying... that Dragon Quest IX went on sale. According to Akiba Blog, over two-thousand people lined up at midnight today for DQIX . Midnight. Today. Today is April 1, and ... (more) The Cruelest April Fool's Joke In Japan [Otaku]

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April Fools 09 -
joystiq.com - 4/2/2009
April Fools 09 -
— joystiq.com — It's the biggest StarCraft II announcement since the game itself -- and would make Michael Bay proud... . Blizzard today unveiled the largest unit to date in its RTS franchise: the Terran Terra-Tron. This hulking bipedal war machine is actually built ... (more) April Fools 09 -

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Rumor: Release list dates Wii Sports Resort with MotionPlus, reveals Wii Fit Plus
joystiq.com - 4/4/2009
Rumor: Release list dates Wii Sports Resort with MotionPlus, reveals Wii Fit Plus
— joystiq.com — A GoNintendo reader by the name of Maxemillian_X recently snapped a picture of an upcoming release list... from an Amsterdam-based gaming retailer which reveals two interesting pieces of Wii news. The first (and somewhat more reasonable) item is a ... (more) Rumor: Release list dates Wii Sports Resort with ...

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Destructoid:  Wii Fit knows you're sensitive about your weight, cares not

That VideoGame Blog:  The April Fool’s Day massacre

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Wii Fit knows you're sensitive about your weight, cares not
Destructoid — ... The people at Kotaku found a couple of the April Fool's Day messages in Wii Fit. One said that the Balance Board was broken, but then quickly said "just joking." The other was really just a kind of warning that the system may be messing with you sometime today. I find that on days like this, it's better not to interact with anything, even a game.  ...

The April Fool’s Day massacre
That VideoGame Blog — ... the suicide StarCraft II should just be called Voltron World of Warcraft stomps the yard Japan gets the middle finger and still no Dragon Quest IX Nibris still doesn’t show Sadness, but announces Egyptian Dental Fair for DS Bethesda slashes Oblivion DLC prices in half, doubles horse armor GameStop flat out fails at being funny Smash Bros. Wii gets bloody Wii Fit becomes sentient MICROÏDS misses the ...

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