Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Blizzard, Humor

Yes, loved by some and hated by others, tomorrow is 4/1, April 1st, known around the world (or at least the Internet) as April Fool’s Day, and odds are that you’ll have a lot of fools trying to play with your head. As you probably know, our friends at Blizzard love April Fool’s, so you can probably expect to see some shenanigans from them tomorrow.

Just to get you ready, here’s a quick roundup of what they’ve done in the past few years. It seems like they’ve been upping the ante for a while now, so be “prepared”: you never know what we might take in from them tomorrow.

2004: Blizzard announced that two-headed Ogres would become a playable race… playable by two players, that is. Not many folks fell for that one — MMOs are all about being social, but playing a character with another player? A little too wacky to be legit.

Lots more after the break, including the chaos that went down last year (Tinfoil Hats, anyone?) in the Warcraft community.

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Original post by Mike Schramm