It’s April Fools’ Day, Here Are The Best Gaming Gags We’ve Seen (2024)

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PowerWash Simulator’s New ‘Dirt’ Mode

“Become a menace” and “cause property damage” in PowerWash Simulator‘s new ‘Dirt’ mode where your objective is to turn squeaky-clean objects into mucky messes. Okay, we really wish his one was real.

SEGA Dreamcast Mini Announced

Does this one play with our emotions a little too much? Maybe. But hey retro gaming podcast @RetroBlastUS tweeted the ‘official reveal’ of the SEGA Dreamcast Mini. That hurts.

Elon Musk Buys Rockstar Games

Horrors like this belong on Halloween, not 1st April. Touché, @videotechuk_, this one is evil.

Guilty Gear Perfume

The official Guilty Gear Twitter account went all-out this year with the reveal of a massive Guilty Gear comic series. While we will have to wait another 150 years to see the finished product (according to the announcement tweet) the team did reveal a “sample” of what’s in store, including an ad for the “Smell of the Game” perfume.

Introducing The ‘Virtual Boy Pro’

We have to hand it to IGN, this one is a belter. Check out the following trailer for the “newest member of the Nintendo Switch family”.

There’s a small selection of some of our favourite gaming gags so far this year — but we’ll be keeping an eye out for more over the course of today!

What’s your favourite so far? Let us know in the comments.