Ordinarily I think that April Fools’ Day is nothing more than an excuse for the douches of the world to unite in douchery, but there are a few companies that think outside of the box and create memorable and goofy pranks.

Blizzard has always been one of my favorites in this regard; their pranks are well thought out and good spirited and they put a ton of effort into each one, not to mention they usually have four or five every year.  However, I think they’ve outdone themselves this year with their Battle.net MatchMaking dating service.

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Blizzard seems to be always working on some sort of neat thing to keep people involved in their ridiculously successful World of Warcraft, and this last patch is no exception.  While they’ve made a ton of tweaks in terms of classes, bugs, and items (as usual), the biggest change this patch is the addition of the Random Battleground system.

Similar to their Random Dungeon system, which was a pretty big success (one I’ve enjoyed from time to time), Random Battleground allows players to queue up to participate in randomly selected PvP Battlegrounds with a group of cross-server players.

Check out the full explanation of Random Battlegrounds in the complete 3.3.3 patch notes after the break.

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G4TV landed an interview with World of Warcraft’s lead producer, J. Allen Brack, and instead of asking him when the hell Cataclysm is coming out or demanding he make Shamans invincible, they chose to talk about WoW’s prospects for console gaming.  As the WoW folks would say, “SLASH SIGH.”

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According to ars technica, the closed beta for Blizzard Entertainment’s long-awaited and oft-delayed StarCraft II is officially live.

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