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Each year, gamers are plagued by developers eager to run lampoons on gaming fans globally, and for April Fools 2025, developers have come out swinging.
April Fools Day continues to make its argument as one of the best days in video games due to the fact that developers continue to let their hair down and make announcements that border on absurd. This year, there is an extensive lineup of April Fools announcements ranging from a nifty device that can hack gamer’s sleep to multiple cursed dating simulators based on titles that couldn’t be described as such.
CGMagazine has gathered five of the top April Fools Day 2025 announcements and listed them below (in no particular order) for fans to take a look at. If any of these announcements “got you,” don’t worry, an announcement’s appearance on this list confirms they are just a spoof.
April Fools Day 2025 – Top Jokes
The MAINGEAR Dream Cube Adds Cheat Codes To a Gamer’s Sleep Cycle
MAINGEAR, a leader in premium-quality high-performance gaming PCs, has announced their newest venture, a white-noise machine called the Dream Cube, a machine designed to take gamers off to sleep land.
Introducing the MAINGEAR Dream Cube, an innovative, groundbreaking portable white noise device designed specifically to address the sleep deprivation challenges faced by dedicated gamers who coin the term “I’ll sleep when I’m dead!”. CEO at MAINGEAR, Wallace Santos, said, “With Dream Cube, gamers finally have a choice: achieve restful sleep or keep playing through the night — in style,” regarding the Dream Cube’s design. Below, MAINGEAR has provided a list of tracks exclusive to the Dream Cube.
- MG-1 Fans
- MG-1 RGB Fans (now 10% cooler!)
- Whispers of APEX Legends
- Hard Drive Spool-Up Symphony
- Coil Whine (dog-approved!)
- Prime95 Stress Test (for extreme sleepers)
- Intense tapping of Cherry MX switches
- Exclusive Brown Noise featuring the iconic Noctua NH-D15
- WW2 Foxhole Romance
- Alien Abduction Ambience
- Zombie Apocalypse Date Night
Unfortunately, the Dream Cube is an April Fools’ joke for those who are seriously interested, so fans getting their hands on one is impossible. Fans can visit the MAINGEAR website for information on any of their other devices.
dbrand Turns Consoles Into Grass, So Fans Can Touch Them Instead of the Real Thing
dbrand has finally allowed gamers to do what they want to do most: touch grass. In a new campaign, dbrand has launched an array of console skins that outfit them with a field outer layer so fans can touch their consoles instead of actual grass.
On the new campaign website, dbrand boldly states, “You tell yourself you’ll go outside. Tomorrow. Next weekend. Eventually. The machine knows you won’t. The solution? Turn the machine into grass. Experience a simpler, happier time. Touch grass—without touching grass” in promotion of the new console skins.
Fans interested in how many consoles can be covered in field material can visit the spoofed dbrand website for further imagery.
Palworld: More Than Just Pals Returns… For Real, This Time
Returning from last year, Pocketpair has doubled down on their dating simulation ventures and has promoted Palworld: More Than Just Pals for the second year in a row on April Fools Day 2025. This time around, Pocketpair has deployed even more media to showcase just how ‘real’ the title is, including a trailer and a full-fledged Steam page.
The Steam description reads, “You, the protagonist, enroll as a transfer student in the prestigious Palpagos Private Academy. You will meet unique friends (pals) and enjoy school life through friendship and romance. It’s up to you whether you stay friends with the pals, develop romantic relationships with them, or even dismember and eat them.”
At this rate, Palworld fans would likely be unsurprised if a full game released from their insistence on this great idea.
Razer Skibidi: Razer’s New AI Brainrot Translator Headset for Gamers
Razer’s in on April Fools 2025, and they’ve brought a new AI brainrot translator for gamers in tow. The new device changes normal speech into speech with “Rizz.” Below are two passages Razer has deployed, showcasing the Skibidi’s epic skills in translating regular speech into a more primal version.
Original Passage — For two decades, we’ve been elevating your in-game voice chats with the best gaming headsets on the planet. But when it comes to communication, mic clarity is only one part of the equation. Introducing the Razer Skibidi—the world’s first intelligent brainrot translator headset optimized for the de-evolution of speech. Finally, you can understand the cancer your Gen Z teammates are spewing.
With Razer Skibidi — Wsp chat. For a fat min we’ve been out here making your cracked ahhhh headsets. But bfr, W mics =/= W comms, esp when your teammates are subhuman NPCs bruh 
That’s why we invented the Razer Skibidi: The world’s first intelligent boomer translating headset, decoding Corpos in real-time. No more guessing if ts tuff or if ts pyo.
Unfortunately for me (and other gamers), the Razer Skibidi is just a joke. Fans can take a look at how far Razer went on their official website.
Return to the Ocean in Dave the Diver: REMASTERED
Fans who have felt themselves yearning for more Dave the Diver, but on a more realistic scale can now watch a new trailer that showcases exactly how Dave the Diver: REMASTERED would look if it has gotten the remaster treatment from Mint Rocket.
The trailer goes above and beyond recapturing the essence of Dave the Diver while installing new 3D graphics showing what Dave himself would look like if he had been dragged out of pixel artwork and brought into the real world.
Unfortunately, fans can only meet Dave the Diver: REMASTERED by watching the spoof trailer above. Fans can also head to the official April Fools Steam page to see how committed Mint Rocket is to their 3D Dave.
Fans looking for more spoofs on April Fools Day 2025 are in luck! Although there are five items listed above, there are still many announcements on the internet waiting to be discovered. Fans should take most gaming news today with a grain of salt, considering there could be hidden joke announcements tangled with the real thing for the rest of the day.
