Blizzard has always been big on April Fool’s jokes, and this year is no different.  The Blizz EU site is touting a new, upcoming feature called “Pimp My Mount”, in which players can go to a mount-customizing shop and have their ride customized.  For a small fee, mounts can be equipped with quite the odd assortment of devices.  These apparently include:

• An unbrella
• Light-up hooves
• Hats
• Custom exhaust pipes
• Spoilers
• Drink dispensers
• Cup holders
• Sound systems
• Ejection seats
• A huge spoiler
• Some sort of cannon
• Nitro Boosters

The whole thing is a pretty cute little piece of humor, but they’re not the only MMO playing practical jokes.  Consider what has happened to your character in Guild Wars:  everyone’s a stick figure.  Certainly funny, but it kind of dampens your ability to role-play.    LOTRO apparently has a quest requiring players to play as a chicken and survive a run across the Ettenmoors, earning them the title “The Fool” if they succeed.

On the non-MMO front, there are other pranks cropping up:  The Witcher is supposedly being developed for “current-gen, next-gen and gen-after-next-gen handheld systems and is scheduled for release between Tuesday and Friday 2010,” and Diablo III is being developed for the Wii.  Suuuuuure they are. 

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