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4chan trolls game communtiy

Posted Mar 15, 2012 at 10:00AM EST by Harrison E

The cunning 4chan, the wily 4chan, the evil 4chan, however you put it, the guys from one of the biggest image board community are unrelenting in their pursuit of lulz. Their most recent victim, video game journalists. The day in, day out grind of finding stories and wanting to get that big scoop is difficult, to say the least.  But when something falls right in your lap, say, a series of games that has not been announced such as, Vice City Nights, Monster Portable 3 and Final Fantasy Type-0, all for the Vita, then you lap it up in droves.

 

 

The games were made with a bit of photoshop and wit and sent to different game journos around the globe. They were picked up by Joystiq, Kotaku, GameSpot, Eurogamer and a few others who ran with the story that the games were being released and all from a simple, Play.com screenshot (see above). The story fell apart when someone actually did their job of being a video game journalist and talked to Play.Com who told them the screenshots were BS.

 

So this was a pretty epic trolling, what do you think they could have done better or how have you been trolled before? Tell us below :)

 

Via [DigitalBattle]

http://digitalbattle.com/2012/03/13/4chan-trolls-game-journalists-and-bloggers-with-fake-story/

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I dont think that really anti-Sony... Its just showing how shitty videogame "journalism" really is.



                            

Carl2291 said:
I dont think that really anti-Sony... Its just showing how shitty videogame "journalism" really is.


Was just going to say that.

Lots of people looking for Vita announcements, easiest to troll. 



Carl2291 said:
I dont think that really anti-Sony... Its just showing how shitty videogame "journalism" really is.


Yeah, it is pretty embarassing for those who ran with the story without doing any proper research.



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4chan is pretty much full of 360 fanboys.



It was the Journalists they trolled not Sony.

http://neogaf.net/forum/showthread.php?t=465809



We could have made an epic joke like that but noooo we are too busy debating about too sexy avatars..



 

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I wouldn't be suprised if these games are indeed coming eventually.



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But Monster Hunter 3 was in the site! It was not a fake picture! I saw it. You saw it!