April Fools' Day 2008

April 1, 2008 was an April Fool's Day that fell on a Tuesday.

Hoaxes

Bulbagarden forums changed the default font on some of the forum skins to Wingdings.
Bulbapedia deleted its User: namespace.
Game Freak announced it was moving to the Arctic to save the elusive snow Pikachu together with a "new" Nintendo DS game, Seasan.
Bulbanews ran a story based on Game Freak's hoax.
Feminist Gamers ran a story about police busting an illegal Pokémon fighting ring.
deviantART changed the avatar of all of its users to an animated Mudkip sprite.
PokéCommunity Forums changed every user's status to moderator.
PKMN.NET announced a new administrator. The administrator would be the person viewing the announcement.
The Pokémon Times changed their theme for the episode to Digimon.