April Fools 2016

On 1. April 2016 by TheCell

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!

cardboard plastic

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.