A quick list of April fools I stumbled upon this year.
Let’s start with Humble bundle:
https://www.humblebundle.com/indiefonts
A new TYPE of bundle. Move aside, games and books — there’s a hot new bundle in town: FONTS. Glorious, glorious fonts. There’s no better way to express yourself than with a handcrafted, artisan font, so we’ve assembled these small-batch fonts, crafted at the source of our design team’s desks, for your fonting pleasure.
Google went even further and created a whole Website!
including a promotion video
And they created a second video for their now delivery sytem, Google Express
They also created a new feature for youtube: SnoopaVision
including a promotion video. Basically you were in a cinema with snoopdog and could watch the youtube video with him. There were also various youtube celebrities accompanied snoop at various videos.
Blizzard announced Hearthstone the mmo
Valvetime gave us the news, that Valve was sold to HTC and is now going to be a VR company and HTC headquarter in the USA
Razer announced a toaster, good times we live in!
Grinding Gear Games announced Second Wave of Trade Improvements, including a exchange rate ticker on their main page.
They also included a Screenshot of ingame graphs
At Cern they made an amazing discovery while sonifiying the higgs data:
also including a video that explains it:
Dark Souls III – The Movie
Draw with Jazza announced the Draw World. It is a platform where you can license the ability to create drawing content on the internet. If that is not great nothing is.
Linus Tech Tips announced that he would retire and that Nvidia is acquiring Linus media group.
Vat 19 is selling the Stōn: The World’s First App-Enabled Rock
Even Pornhub changed their main theme to Corn:
Dan Bull announced that he is going to be daddy, egg daddy.
The Swiss Radio has replaced a radio moderator with a comedian
Youtuber Manniac announced 4 new Youtube features
Nvidia presented their new drink
Matthias Wandel presented a new way to work with wood. It saves a lot of time over the historical craftsmanship. It really looks promising.
Newgrounds made their Website great again – thanks Trump.
