Gaming fans are very creative, whether it's in the insults they dole out to each other during online multiplayer or the inventive ways they choose to be offended by articles on websites. They will stay on with games long after release, updating the graphics or adding new characters and missions with various pieces of modding software. People edit together videos, make Let's Plays, create fan art and fan fiction. It's all rather nice, a grassroots industry that's fuelled purely by passion. Oh and then there are the hoaxes, the total lies people dream up and disseminate throughout the gaming world. Those lot are kinda jerks. Well, sometimes. There are people who have constructed complex rumours and mistruths out of spite, some who have done it as an artistic exercise, and people who spread stories simply because they want to believe it to be true. Video games give more room for exploration and extrapolation than any other form of media - you can't go poking around for hidden areas in a (non-children's) book, or discover secret weapons in a movie - and there's a tendency for folks to assume there's more concealed stuff in your average AAA title than is actually possible. Over the years we've been suckered into believing these hoaxes through schoolyard hearsay, fully rendered fake screenshots, or genuine urban legends that get passed around the world thanks to online forums and social media. We're not too proud to admit that. We are, however, now going to get revenge on these tricksters by exposing the ten biggest gaming hoaxes of all time for the hateful fabrications they are!