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Did Chaucer inspire Fun.com’s brilliant product ideas?

April 1, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once a year, companies like Fun.com get to show us inventive product ideas.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: April Fools' Day, dinosaurs, funcom, Ghostbusters, jurassic park, Millennium Falcon, star wars, The Incredible Hulk

Toast Notification: Niantic launch Ingress’ April Fools early

March 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ingress Prime bugs have included words that tell players ‘Toast Notification’, and this April Fools seems to be inspired by them.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: April Fools' Day, ingress, niantic

Google’s Ingress April Fools joke – Pac-man take over

March 31, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 9 Comments

Google’s put their April Fools joke live for their mobile alternative reality game live. Ingress players have their cursor turned into Pac-man and portals are now ghosts. This shouldn’t muck up gameplay too much but it’s certainly going to confuse players who forget what day it is. In Ingress there are two sides who complete […]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: April Fools' Day, google, ingress

Think Geek’s 2013 April Fools!

April 1, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Think Geek has a proud history of getting engaged with April Fools’ day. This is a rising challenge as it’s become increasingly popular for sites to play pranks on readers each year. It’s free marketing, after all, with blogs pointing out the best gags each year. Think Geek does April Fools’ well, though, and given […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: aliens, April Fools' Day, Bane, batman, Minecraft, star wars, ThinkGeek

Free Hugs Championship

April 1, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Following on from their Eurocosplay championship in October, the MCM Expo group will be launching their first ever Free Hugs championship in May. It’ll be sponsored by London’s Comic Con. Paul Miley, MCM Expo partner, said; This is another in an incredible long line of firsts for the MCM Expo and we are proud to […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: April Fools' Day

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