Temporary internet fame AND infamy FTW

Every year since 2004, I've had a tradition of posting a fake news "announcement" somewhere on the web, hoping to take advantage of the fact that plenty of people know me across several web communities, and my general well-intentioned posting nature in order to get a few cheap laughs at an idea that I'd love to see.

This year I "announced" "Killzone: Wrath of Hakha" for the PSN. The game, at least in my mind, would be a spin-off of Killzone: Liberation and would use the advantages of the PS3 to provide for the best downloadable game to date. You can read all the details over at Killzoneunit.com.

I generally get a couple dozen people to fall for the trick, but after someone takes the time to read into the article, and realize that the news is too good to be true, and that the information is generally filled with obscure references to forum discussions and fan wishes, everyone remembers the date and gets slightly angry at me for raising their hopes.

I guess this year was different. The news actually made it onto a good number of websites and forums, and actually had to be "busted" in order to really die down.

As a matter of fact, VideoGamer.com was actually contacted by a representative of SCEE and told that this, in fact, was an April Fool's joke.

So, if SCEE knows about the rumor and the hopes that it generated, hopefully we'll actually see Hakha's Wrath in the near future.