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** IGN recently joked that an [[Expansion Pack]] for ''Brawl'' would be offered as part of a faux service called "Wii Expand". The supposed expansion in question is called ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl X: Extreme'', and it was said to be geared towards an adult audience, with gore and decapitations abound. [http://video.ign.com/dor/articles/969169/ign-april-fools-videos/videos/supersmashexx_bc_spc_jpn.html Here is the footage of the supposed expansion pack in action], as well as [http://wii.ign.com/dor/articles/968498/smash-bros-goes-hardcore-video/videos/supersmashexx_spc_jpn.html an offscreen version].

** When it was announced that there were non-Nintendo characters in ''Brawl'' (and were pretty much instantly identified as Sonic and Solid Snake), the rumors instantly started that there would be a third character from [[Capcom]] in the mix ([[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] being the most popular guess). When the full roster was announced, with no Capcom characters, scuttlebutt was (and still is) that there was some sort of falling out between Nintendo and Capcom that led to the proposed Capcom entry getting left out.

*** An interview with Keiji Inafune specifically asked if he was ever asked by Nintendo if they could put Mega Man in ''Brawl''. He wasn't, but notes that if he was, he'd have said yes in a heartbeat.

** Let's not forget the rumor stating that Miyamoto (or maybe Sakurai) said on a radio program that Bowser Jr., Ridley and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Wind Waker]]'' Link would join Brawl while Ice Climbers, Young Link and Game & Watch would be taken out. The Link part was true, but pretty much by coincidence.

 

 

* In early beta versions of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]] Online: Stormreach'', there was a bug where using your "diplomacy" skill on a treasure chest caused it to give better loot. Although this bug was fixed well before the game went live, the rumor that using diplomacy on a chest gives better loot still remains, despite repeated debunkings by the game's developers on the official forums.

* [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]] tend to develop a ton of rumors due to their fluid and ever-changing nature.

** There was an unreachable island in the background of the Midnight Mountain home level in ''Spyro: Year of the Dragon''. No matter what, it was impossible to glide or otherwise get to it, and you would lose lives in the process. Of course, rumors spread about what was on this island, such as another egg, or a secret level. Eventually, it was discovered through hacking that the island contained three life butterflies, and that was it. So much for wasting your childhood...

* Recently there have been a lot of rumors for a new ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' game. The most common cites the game as a game called "Crash Bandicoot 3D: Uka Uka Resurrection".

 

 

*** One piece of fan rumor turned out to be correct. In ''IV'', you receive an achievement called "Impossible Trinity" after completing a mission in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After it was revealed that Johnny (who appears in that mission) was the playable character for the first [[Expansion Pack]], players seized upon the achievement name and correctly predicted that Luis (who also appears) would star in his own DLC.

** ''San Andreas'' had a single mission where you fly to Liberty City and have a shootout in the Italian restaurant which features prominently in ''3''. There were an enormous number of rumors suggesting that there was a way to unlock all of Liberty City. Hackers figured out how to get there, either getting outside the mission area or returning later; a surprisingly large part of the city is actually present (about 70% of Portland), hovering in the air miles above northeast Los Santos, but is useless because the ground isn't solid except in the area used in the establishing shot.

** ''Vice City'' wasn't immune to this, either; claims that there were ways to make the military submarine submerged off the North coast of the East island surface were made, up to and including talk of a secret ending where you could nuke the city.

** The Yeti rumor became a [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] moment when ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'''s [[Halloween Episode|Undead Nightmare]] DLC lets you ''encounter and skin'' a Yeti.