it wasn't a magazine prank, but a Counter Strike: Source prank from Valve was pretty classic in my opinion. The prank consisted of a weekly news update outlining a huge CS:S update with a crap load of new features that were pretty off the wall.
I remember one of the points saying something like,
"Your shotgun can now break and you'll have to send it out for repairs which will last for two rounds."
and,
"Make sure you take out your knife and swing it a couple of times at the end of a round because built up moisture can now ruin your blade if you never use it"
Mainly, everything in this prank was pretty humorous and what made it even funnier was when a bunch of threads started to show up on the Steam forums about people complaining how stupid of an update it would be and how much they would hate Valve when it comes out.







