Well kids, just as we were about to report the rumor that has been going around that the Xbox 360′s exclusive content may be a zombie infested outbreak in Liberty City, Rockstar made an announcement on its Rockstar Social Club that almost totally deflated our hopes.

An advertisement by Eugenics Inc. that a “contagious disease” said Social Club spark a bit of chatter earlier today causing many, including us, to speculate that the citizens of Liberty City would be turned into blood thirsty zombies. We were almost right. Instead of being the “exclusive” downloadable content that Microsoft promised us for Fall 2008, its a Halloween gag by the Rockstar folks.

Instead, its the players that will become zombies, or at least gain access to that ultra-Halloween zombie skin…

Sorry everyone, but LEGO Halo is all a hoax. Every year Electronic Gaming Monthly does an April Fool’s joke, and their joke for this year happened to leak a bit early. Xbox 360 Fanboycame across a scan from the April 2008 issue of EGM, saw the doctored LEGO Halo image, and ran with a story on it. The Xbox 360 Fanboy original article has since been modified to show the truth about LEGO Halo.

Everyone likes a good prank once and awhile, but when that prank gets out of hand it becomes annoying and eventually down right mean. But I must admit when someone hands me a gadget with the potential to create havoc, well monkey business is bound to ensue. That’s what happened when the crew of Gizmodo more »