From VR Nintendo to duck survival – the best April Fool’s jokes from the gaming world in 2024

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Whether Nintendo VR goggles or Cyberpunk Floppy Edition, April Fools’ Day pranks from the gaming world once again caught many gamers off guard in 2024

As is the case every year on April 1, there were plenty of hilarious hoaxes that sent the gaming world into a tizzy and caught the odd gullible gamer off guard. We have summarized the funniest and most creative April Fool’s jokes of the year for you.

Nintendo VR goggles

A joke that made many people both laugh and wish it was true – the Virtual Boy Pro A VR headset for the Nintendo Switch that combines reality with the gaming world with games such as Mario Kart Open Road or Link’s Korok Catcher

Most Nintendo veterans will probably shiver at the sound of the name Virtual Boy however.

The original Virtual Boy was released in Japan and the USA in 1995 and was a resounding failure for Nintendo. After only a short time, production of the VR headset was discontinued and chalked up as a failure.

First look at Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

After fans have been desperately waiting for the first images of the long-awaited Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree, Bandai Namco finally revealed new images of the expansion on April 1st. It looks like the social media team took the word “expansion” a little too seriously and simply enlarged the word without introducing any game content

Cyberpunk 2077 Floppy Edition

Do you miss the good old days when installing a game was like a ritual where you had to constantly swap floppy disks and CDs in the drives to install a game? With the Cyberpunk 2077 Floppy Edition, you can relive the past and install the hit game from 2020 on a crisp 97,619 3.5″ floppy disks.

After a short installation period of around two months, during which you’ll have to swap floppy disks, you can get started and finally make Night City unsafe

Duckside – all’s well that ends well

DayZ and Rust are just too boring for you and you think there should be more feathered content in the gaming world in general? With Duckside, all these wishes are finally coming true.

Classic duck survival meets intense firefights, base building and an open world that we can even explore on the fly. In fact, Duckside is not an April Fool’s joke, but a real game that even has its own Steam page

Razer Cthulhu Gaming Char

Who hasn’t experienced it, you’re in the middle of a gaming session lasting several hours and you’re getting hungry and thirsty, but you don’t want to take your hand off the mouse. Thanks to the Razer Cthulhu, this problem is finally a thing of the past

With its oh-so-AI-controlled arms, the chair provides you with everything you need during an intensive round in front of the screen and, in addition to massages and food, even takes care of the necessary body hygiene.

Made possible by our breakthroughs in Razer Blade 18 condensing power and performance, each AI tentacle is equipped with a Razer Skynapse chip and over 1,337TB. We can guarantee you a 96.9%* chance that the tentacles will always obey! *PLEASE READ THE FAQ WHEN THE RAZER CTHULHU STARTS NOT TO OBEY

Palworld, more than just good friends

The next big step in Palworld will be a dating simulation where you can fall in love with adorable Pals, a student named Zoe and even a black marketeer.

“Will you stay friends, fall in love or cut up and eat each other?” There will also be an adult version where you can undress, release April 1, 2025.

Potato Power in Minecraft

This April update in Minecraft is all about Germany’s favorite vegetable – the potato. The potato is love, the potato is life, the potato is power. In the potato update, players are transported to the Poisonous Potato Dimension, where five “Potastic Biomes” with new equipment such as the potato peeler and the Batato Mobs await us.

PowerDirt Simulator

While PowerWash Simulator is all about fighting dirt and grime, PowerDirt Simulator lets us do exactly the opposite. Formerly spotless playgrounds, house facades and all kinds of other objects become the brown nightmare of every white shirt in no time at all.

If you’re waiting for the release, you’ll have to be patient – according to the developers, it will never be