April Fools' Day 2008

April 1, 2008 was an April Fool's Day that fell on a Tuesday.

Hoaxes

• Bulbagarden forums changed the default font on some of the forum skins to Wingdings.
• Bulbapedia deleted its User: namespace.
• Bulbanews ran a story based on Game Freak's hoax.
• Game Freak announced it was moving to the Arctic.
• Feminist Gamers ran a story about police busting an illegal Pokémon fighting ring.
• deviantART changed the avatar of all of its users to an animated Mudkip sprite.

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