The Clown Prince of Crime continued his antics today with an all new ARG. For those of you not clever enough to unravel the clues left by the madman, we present to you the end result of the Joker’s dastardly riddle.

Here's what happened today in the world of videogames, popular culture and technology; no joke!

• Our cousins across the pond in Great Britain have seen fit to grant Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV a rating.
• A Legend of Zelda movie is coming... April Fools!
• A tiger-mauling victim may have stolen a Wii.
• Freestyle 101 features the greatest rapper alive.
• Youtube Rick Rolled everyone.
• Pick the plot of Banjo Kazooie 3.
• Japanese Wii owners can now get in on the DLC party through WiiWare courtesy of Square-Enix.
• Comic-Con in New York is expanding into gaming in a big way.
• The robotic cars from 2007’s DARPA Urban Grand Challenge autonomous car race will stage a rematch.
• The full trailer for the Oneechanbara movie has been released.
• Ubisoft has just announced Emergency Heroes for the Wii.
• Westin Hotels plan to roll out a free Wii program.
• Activision has teamed with Hands-On Mobile to make Guitar Hero III Mobile available on BlackBerry smartphones.
• Ultimate April Fools on the web list!

Before Attack of the Show goes live every day, the control room puts together a little montage of shots set to music to make sure the video feed is active. Here's just a little taste of the kind of crazy bs that goes on daily at the G4 studios. Enjoy!

btw, Olivia is really into pie right now.

Are there any games you can't get on Steam? Today, Ubisoft announced they will be making their games available through the download service. Far Cry, Assassins Creed (pre-order), and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell are available now, but more are on the way. Ubisoft wants to be the biggest publisher on the service.

Assassin's Creed even features four new, including four bonus missions exclusive to the PC.

If you were really into Trauma Center, but the surgery sim has grown stale, then we have good news for you. Altus has announced Trauma Center 2 for the Nintendo DS, coming soon, and it has some improvements over the original. Among them is the ease with which you can use some of the instruments with the stylus.

Sadly, there's not much else in the way of information, including a release date, but we thought you might like to know what was going on. So, scrub up and get ready to operate, champ.

IGN: DS Going Back Under the Knife

Unlike previous years, where summer has signified a long and painful drought in the land of gaming, some of the hottest games of 2008 are set to release this summer and X-Play is bringing you an exclusive sneak-peak to 16 of the hottest upcoming games.

Adam and Morgan are revving up 5 days of in-depth coverage starting off with a 1 hour Grand Theft Auto IV special on 4/28/08, the night before the game finally releases.

We’ve got full access to these games and we’ll be bringing you first looks, hands on demos, and never before seen, exclusive footage.

A full list of the games being covered is under the break.

Nokia's Internet tablets are about to get some new functionality from HAVA, which will let users stream live and pre-recorded TV over Wi-Fi or WiMAX directly to the Nokia N800 and N810 tablets.

The player will require HAVA hardware, which you can check out at their official site.

Full press release follows.

Though we can’t quite put our finger on what it is that makes this video so special. You all seem to love it… A LOT. Our inboxes have been flooded with requests for this bit of AOTS insanity. You demanded it, you got it.

We enjoy a good April Fool's prank as much as the next gaming blog, but the entry from 3D Realms just makes us sad.

Above is the new character design for the pig cops in Duke Nukem Forever. Ha Ha, obviously a joke, except all 3D realms ever does is trick us. Whenever they offer a release date for DNF, we assume it's a joke, so should we assume that this pig drawing, that seems like a joke, is actually going to be in the game??

Official Site

We assume you all actually like videogames--not all games or genres of games, but the concept of videogames. Probably most of the people you hang out with are okay with gaming to. Perhaps you're friends with so many pro-gamers, you forget what non-gamers sound like. If so, England's Times Online wants to remind you.

"I hate video games, on or offline," writes guest columnist Giles Whittell. "I hate the way they suck real people into fake worlds and hold on to them for decades at a time. I hate being made to feel hateful for saying so, and I hate being told to immerse myself in them before passing judgment, because it feels like being told to immerse myself in smack and teenage pregnancy before passing judgment on them."

"Compared with everything else on offer in a kid's life, video games and heroin and teenage pregnancy are a colossal waste of time," She adds.

Just wanted to remind you what a lot of people think of your hobby.

Times Online: Video games: I'll never buy one

Sony is sponsoring a contest for G.I.R.L. gamers.

Applications are being accepted for the 2008 G.I.R.L. Game Design Competition. Scholarship of up to $10,000 are being offered in order to "educate and recruit more women into the field of video game production and design." Right now, the scholarship is only available to students of The Art Institutes.

"The secret is out: Females game. We're just trying to encourage more women to make the games they obviously enjoy playing, said Torrie Dorrell, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing, Sony Online Entertainment. "With the application process starting today, we're taking a concrete step towards opening the door a little wider for women who want to go into game development, and that can only help expand our industry's audience."

Applications and complete rules for entry are available online, right here.

Might we suggest a baking and/or childcare simulator to the ladies out there? (Girls like that kind of thing, right?)

We're already psyched for Prototype, and the PC, PS3 and 360 game doesn't even come out until the end of September.

Here's a gallery of brand new screenshots and an exclusive video from X-Play.

And so it begins…

The onslaught of Guitar Hero rip-off games that is sure to come down the pike, beginning with…Guitar Rising!

Guitar Rising is, according to the website, “a music video game where the player plays a real guitar as cued by the game’s visuals. Following rock music sequences and streaming notes, players play guitar melodies and rhythms. Beginner difficulty levels are designed for non-guitar players and hard difficulties will challenge experienced guitarists.”

Sound familiar?

GameTank unveiled Guitar Rising duirng Demo Night at the Independent Game Conference in Austin, TX, where it was (shockingly) awarded the Developer's Choice Award by popular vote.

Guitar Rising is expected to be released in late 2008.

(FYI, pictured here is an actual guitar hero, Joe Perry of Aerosmith)

One of the biggest missing features from the PS3 is the ability to play your own music while in a game. Turns out, this could be because of a patent that Microsoft holds. We know it's April Fool's Day, but this patent looks pretty legit.

This could keep Sony from ever including this feature. It appears that developers have a loophole around this patent by making the in-game soundtrack ability on a game-by-game basis. The patent prohibits another company from a system-wide solution.

How much do you want this feature in the PS3? We really, really want it.

Ripten: Microsoft Owns Patent for In-Game Custom Soundtracks

Wanna look inside a ladies' room, even though you're clearly not a lady?

Experience the wonder, courtesy of The Sims 2: Kitchen and Bath that comes out later this month.

The expansion will come out on the 15th for PCs.

We were hoping that the only April Fool's joke to come out of The Dark Knight would be that Heath Ledger's death was a prank, but that's not the case. He's really dead. On the other hand, there is a new viral site for the movie that has something to do with April Fool's Day, though we're not exactly sure what it is.

Calling itself the Clown Travel Agency, the site leaves the clue of a list of cities where...something...is to be found, and then a number of passport stamps which shows the cities in which whatever that thing is has already been acquired. It's not really an April Fool's Day joke, so much as it is a sort of scavenger hunt. Either way, it's still pretty cool. Go there.

Clown Travel Agency

Alt-rock gods Radiohead is teamed with iTunes and GarageBand for an interactive project which allows fans to rework the second single from In Rainbows, "Nude." 

Utilizing the Internet again to promote In Rainbows, the band is selling five separate tracks from the recording -- bass, voice, guitar, strings/effects and drums -- from iTunes Plus for remixers to use as tools. The customer is then sent an access code to complete the task via the GarageBand or Logic music production software.

Sort of. It looks like China will allow foreign press to access the internet while they are covering the Olympics in Beijing, but still restrict Chinese language versions of websites like Wikipedia and BBC News.

China is notorious for censoring the internet and trying to control the flow of digital information, but experts believe failing to open the web for press "would reflect very poorly" on China.

It's looking like you'll be able to get Olympic coverage just fine, but don't expect China to lift the Great Firewall any time soon.

CNet: Wikipedia and Blogspot, ho! China's Net wall coming down

Alone in the Dark trailer means: SCARY!

As a huge fan of the survival-horror genre, I am extra excited about this one. It comes out across platform on June 2nd.

We've got a whole bunch of Battle of the Bands screens for you Wii-having music-game fans to enjoy.

The game comes out on April 21st.

Here's a trailer:

You want fun and excitement? In a story we're pretty sure isn't April Fool's related, The Price Is Right will come to home gaming online in the near future, as FremantleMedia has made a deal with developer WorldWinner to put Price online, where you will be able to compete for fabulous cash and...cash.

There's no word on how the game will actually work, but we're betting hard on Plinko. And, of course, we're hoping for the Alpine mountain climber game, which has the greatest yodeling bit of all time, shown here.

Remember to have your pets spayed or neutered.

The man behind bit torrent tracking site The Pirate Bay has some choice words for the record companies trying to shut him down: "[the] record companies can go screw themselves"

Yup, that’s what Gottfried Svartholm Warg said Monday in response to a music-industry demand for $2.5 million in damages.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry made the compensation claim Monday in a Swedish court, where Warg  and the rest of the Pirates have been indicted for copyright violations related to the sharing of 24 music albums, nine films and four videogames using the service.

What? Only nine films and four videogames?

As much as it seems like an April Fools Day joke, this one appears to be real. A woman is suing Apple because according to her the 20" iMac cannot display millions of colors as Apple claims.

She points to only 252,144 possible colors on that particular model of iMac. Really? This will probably go about as well as every other suit against Apple.

We don't think you're getting your money, Chandra Sanders.

In other news, I'm suing Skittles for failing to let me taste an actual rainbow.

PC World: Apple Sued Over "Millions of Colors" Display Claim

Pull up a chair and have a seat. This year's April 1 festivities are some of the best in recent memory, especially around the gaming world, where many companies and media outlets jumped into the act with some truly hilarious and sometimes amazing results.

Make sure you check back to G4TV.com often as we'll keep you updated around the clock with the best side-splitting pranks on this most auspicious calendar day.

Click the jump to check out our carefully compiled list.

Activision has teamed with Hands-On Mobile to make Guitar Hero III Mobile available on BlackBerry smartphones.

"As shown by its success, Hands-On Mobile has done a great job carrying Guitar Hero over to the mobile platform," said RedOctaneExecutive Vice President Charles Huang. "With the addition of BlackBerry customers, even more fans can now feed their Guitar Hero addictions."

They say the mobile version of the popular game maintains the same high quality gameplay experience. It offers 15 instantly accessible tracks taken from the console series, including "Cherub Rock,” "Miss Murder,” "Monsters,” "Suck My Kiss,” and "Trippin' On A Hole,” and offers subscribers the opportunity to expand their playlist with three new songs every month. After a year, players will be able to access over 50 songs and 150 unique levels across all three difficulties (easy, medium, and expert).

We're used to going to the kind of hotels that have coin-operated vibrating beds and Nintendo 64 games for $10 a minute, but we'll upgrade to Westin. Westin Hotels plan to roll out a free Wii program. The company will be offering gratis videogames to all its customers, telling kotaku:

Contrary to what's been reported on several blogs, Westin Hotels & Resorts' new Wii program will be completely free of charge to all hotel guests. This perk is the result of a groundbreaking partnership between Westin and Nintendo, details of which will be announced in the coming weeks. This complimentary amenity will be yet another addition to the successful WestinWORKOUT program, which currently provides state-of-the-art equipment and workouts—including running maps, guided runs and mental exercises—free of charge to all hotel guests.

So there you have it.

Kotaku.com: Westin Renting Wiis For Free

Have you ever dreamed about being a fireman? Now you're going to get your chance without all that pesky fire. Ubisoft has just announced Emergency Heroes for the Wii.

The big twist is that it's not really about saving people's lives. It's actually a sci-fi game that takes place in a memory simulation.

Hit the jump for the full press release.

This is not an April Fool's joke: The full trailer for the Oneechanbara movie has been released. Boobies, sword-play, zombies, schoolgirl outfits, boobies, etc.

Please watch.

April Fool’s Day is upon us and if you’ve taken even a cursory glance at TheFeed, you know the web is loaded with joke news and false information. While we’re all for a little fooling around, one thing we’re dead serious about is bringing you the funniest videos on the net. Take a look (you won’t be Rickrolled).

Break: Pool Prank

Break: 16 Can Smash

Break: Korean Drummer Rocks Out

The robotic cars from 2007’s DARPA Urban Grand Challenge autonomous car race will stage a rematch at the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, Calif., later this month.

And this time it’s personal…

"Boss," a rugged, bold Chevy Tahoe from Carnegie Mellon University and winner of the $2 million Urban Grand Challenge, will compete yet again against "Junior," the affable robotic Volkswagen Passat from Stanford University that took second place. The two teams, which have a long, heated rivalry, will also face off against "Ben," a Toyota Prius from the University of Pennsylvania and Lehigh University with a heart of gold and penchant for love. Ben finished sixth in the urban challenge, but first in our hearts.

Comic-Con in New York is expanding into gaming in a big way.  This year's conference includes a look into the award-winning Gears of War franchise and the upcoming Gears of War 2.

 Epic Games President Michael Capps and Gears of War 2 scriptwriter Joshua Ortega of Microsoft Game Studios will be on hand to tell you all about their new game.

The Con's "Gamer Summit" will be graced with Konami, Namco Bandai, Square-Enix, and Ubisoft, and will showcase games including Age of Conan, EvE Online, Iron Man, Warhammer Online, and studios including CCP, FunCom, Turbine, and 38 Studios. The summit will also feature round table discussions and topics ranging from video game journalism and writing for video games, to starting a career in the video game industry.

It all goes down April 18-20, at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City.

Japanese Wii owners can now get in on the DLC party through WiiWare courtesy of Square-Enix. The first batch of DLC for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King.

There are three new races for 300 Points each or 800 as a pack. They are the Lilty, Yuke, and Selkie.

Also thrown in are a few new buildings and items.

Welcome to the big leagues, Wii owners. Get ready to be nickel and dimed by DLC!

IGN: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Paid Downloads Start

Game makers Rareware assures us via their website that Banjo Kazooie 3 is not an April Fool's joke. They also urge their readers to guess the plot of the holiday-released game. They've presented five potential storylines and urge you to take your pick:

• Rumour One: Banjo and Grunty team up against a new threat, falling in love in the process. Sexy post-transformation Grunty makes a return and proves irresistible to our heroic bear, much to Kazooie's disgust. Can the mismatched trio defeat their fire-breathing foe?
• Rumour Two: Kazooie is abducted by aliens and Banjo heads out to search the cosmos. Partway through his low-gravity exploits, he discovers who's taken her... and it's a familiar face from the Rare archives who has been 'turned to the green side' by Grunty.
• Rumour Three: Banjo and Kazooie travel back through time in pursuit of the witch's giant T.I.T. Grunty drives her Time Interfering Truck back to before the bear and bird met. The duo must reintroduce themselves and relearn everything they know in a completely new way!
• Rumour Four: Banjo comes out of retirement to stop his home being redeveloped into tower blocks and malls. To end the struggle, a capricious higher power engineers a bear/witch showdown through worlds of the imagination – with Spiral Mountain's ownership deeds going to the victor.
• Rumour Five: War comes to Spiral Mountain, and Banjo becomes a reluctant leader. Ever seen a Jinjo Tank? Or Grunty's Grappling Grenadier Grunts? You will when you take on our innovative RTS-platformer hybrid campaign.

Make your choice!

Source

Assassin's Solid:

Internet video site youtube is in the April Fool's spirit: The site has replaced all of their featured videos with a Rick-Roll, effectively rick-rolling the entire world.

Go check it out yourself, man.

Ladies and gents, despite it being April Fools Day, we here at Freestyle 101 are intent on keepin’ it real.

Very real.

Very, very, very real.

So real, in fact, that we have invited the greatest rapper on Planet Earth down to The Engine Room in Hollywood to spit a freestyle so dope, so complex, so fresh, it’ll make your head explode into a bulbous, fleshy mess. Seriously. The dude is that good.

Meet Chill-E Will-He?, America's best rapper!

Rapper extraordinaire Chill-E Will-He? practically invented freestyling. All those battles scenes in 8 Mile? They were really about his age of come-up, not that punk Eminem. Hell, Chill-E raps circles around Slim Shady! In his sleep! With one leg tied behind his back, kid! Accompanied by his DJ Mike Risha, Chill-E spit a killer rap off the top of the dome and chatted about what it takes to spit, how he prepares for battle, and reverse racism in hip hop. Hey, the guy is from the streets, so he preaches what he knows: thuggin’, crime, his mic prowess and fly rhyme skills.

Some people are born great, some have Greatness thrust upon them, and some just grab Greatness by the nards and say, "I'm here, Greatness." Nineteen year old Paul Dhaliwal is the latter. A few month ago, Dhaliwal, his brother and a friend were attacked by a tiger at the San Diego Zoo. Media reports suggested the trio was taunting the deadly killing machine before its genetically encoded rampage began.

What's Dhaliwal been doing since the Christmas Day attack? He's been suing the public relations firm he says accused him of teasing the Tiger. Also, if you believe the police, Dhaliwal has been stealing Wii-Motes. Dhaliwal was arrested recently on suspicion of trying to pilfer a pair of Nintendo Wii video game controllers from a Target store in San Leandro, California.

Mercury News.com: San Jose brothers maimed by zoo tiger allege negligence, defamation

IGN is reporting that a Legend of Zelda movie is in production and will be released on April 1st 2009.

The fantasy adaptation of one of the great properties in gaming history  is being written and directed by newcomer Sam Balcomb. Link is played by JR Killigrew, Camille C. Brown portrays Princess Zelda, and Gregory Lee Kenyon stars as Ganondorf. No mention of who will be playing Navi, we'd like to suggest Richard Simmons.

Check out the trailer!

In related news, did you get so excited by the Zelda movie that you forgot what day it was for second? April fools, biotch!

IGN: Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer Premiere

Our lovable cousins across the pond in Great Britain have seen fit to grant Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV a rating, clearing the game for UK release. There was some doubt after the drama over the rating for Rockstar's Manhunt 2. The game will be rated for over 18, so sorry, tiny British children. You'll have to shoot bobbies and nick lorries elsewhere.

"I say," The Queen Mum did not say. "When this videogame is released, Prince Harry and I will have a jolly good time bustin' caps and eating crumpet!" She did not add with a delightfully quaint accent.

Computerandvideogames: 'GTA IV' Gets British Rating