It’s now April 1 and some companies in the video game industry have already contributed to this year’s April fools joke tradition of making absurd/hilarious announcements. Here’s the list of April Fools jokes we've seen so far. We’ll add more as soon as the rest of the gaming industry post what they have planned for this year.

Sadly, good things come to an end as Nintendo has announced that they will be shutting down the Nintendo eShop for both the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS in March 2023.

In a nod to the very first Legend of Zelda, Nintendo ended up ditching the more linear, dungeon-focused formula of its previous 3D Zelda entries to prioritize a more Western “go anywhere, do anything” philosophy, which could easily have resulted in a Twilight Princess situation of too much empty space, but instead, through some miracle of game design, this radical change birthed one of the most high-quality virtual worlds I've ever experienced.

We check out the first 2 hours of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the new Nintendo Switch in another Backseat Gaming session at the GG Network studio. Thanks to Ryvaeus for lending us his Nintendo Switch for these videos.