April Fool's 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 to save the elusive snow Pikachu together with a "new" Nintendo DS game, Seasan.
• 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.
• PokéCommunity Forums changed every user's status to moderator.
• PKMN.NET announced a new administrator. The administrator would be the person viewing the announcement.

Bulbagarden forums	Bulbapedia	Bulbanews front page	Bulbanews story
Game Freak	Game Freak's snow Pikachu	Feminist Gamers	deviantART avatar