From the too ridiculous to be believed, to things that make you cry when you learn they’re a lie, April Fools’ Day is a day when it’s impossible to trust anything you read. To help you separate fact from fiction, we’re rounding up the best jokes we find:
This one’s half true. You can catch Pokemon on your iOS or Android device using the Google Maps app right now. However, you’re probably not going to get a job at Google just for finding Pokemon on a map.
Remember Nester from the old Nintendo Power magazine cartoon Howard and Nester? A spoof site (with incredibly terrible art) will try to convince you that the the red-headed protagonist is in the next version of Smash Bros. The art is pretty terrible, but the page layout mimics the official Smash Bros. site well.
From the official Sony Killzone blog comes a movie direct by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. The site says, “The movie focuses on the events depicted in Killzone: Shadow Fall after the Helghast settle on planet Vekta.”
Here are a few other sample headlines that might not have been written yet, but that you’ll probably read somewhere before the end of the day tomorrow:
Video game company X buys video game company y (i.e. Microsoft buys Nintendo)
Game publisher known for one type of game makes a game using that IP in a new and ridiculous genre (i.e. Battlefield kart racer)
Anything at all related to Half-Life 3
Justin Haywald is a senior editor at GameSpot, and you can follow him on Twitter @JustinHaywald. Find a great April Fools’ joke we missed or got a hot news tip? Email news@gamespot.com