It’s April Fools’ Day, Here Are The Best Gaming Gags We’ve Seen (2026)

It’s April Fools’ Day as soon as once more, which implies as we speak you will discover a massive dollop of ridiculous gaming information (enjoyable) blended in along with your typical ridiculous gaming information (worth hikes, layoffs, not-fun).

So as is customary, we have rounded up our picks of the most effective gags on your amusement as we kick off April with a smirk.

We’ll be including to this checklist within the coming hours as extra fools-lovin’ areas get up and put up their jokes, so tell us within the feedback in case you spy one. Enjoy!

2026’s Best April Fools’ Gaming Gags

Yoshi meets Yoshi meets Yoshi

Doing their finest Spider-Man impressions, and getting in on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie‘s launch as we speak, right here we’ve LA Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto assembly Donald Glover (voice of Yoshi within the new movie) and Yoshi himself.

Pragmata is a Mega Man recreation

Leaning right into a fan principle that Capcom debunked last year, this one’s so on the nostril that it flags it is a gag within the headline, which kinda kills it.

Still, it is enjoyable seeing that big Mega Man go well with. We can solely assume that’ll discover its approach into the sport correct someway.

Level-5 theme park

Level-5 is again once more with an AI-generated video, naturally (in case you could not inform, it is even flagged with an asterisk on the very finish). At the guts of Fukuoka, Level-5 Land is “opening… someday”, in response to the above video.

Seems they’re syncing this with the launch of Layton and the New World of Steam, then. Hawhaw.

The subsequent recreation within the PowerWash collection, Date the Dirt

Riffing on the theme of Date Everything, FuturLab put out a trailer for a PowerWash Simulator spin-off that permits you to get down and soiled.

NieR: Cosmic Horror

Let’s put this within the perhaps pile, we could? One the one hand, Yoko Taro; on the opposite, Yoko Taro. A teaser trailer was uploaded to the official Japanese X account, however we’ll simply have to attend and see if Nier: Cosmic Horror is legit “Coming Soon” or not.

Pokémon Pokopia Wacky Waving Inflatable Suduwoodo

Not a lot a gag as a enjoyable tie-in, this one is definitely actual. Pokopia has a limited-time merchandise accessible in inflatable arm flailing tube kind.

If you fancy getting a wibbly wobbly Suduwoodo in Pokopia, it is accessible till 5am on 2nd April.