As far as I know it's completely legit. That's one of the big announcements at Blizzcon today. That and that people who had 12-month subscriptions to WoW get free Diablo 3. And talent trees are revamped:I was expecting some kind of Titan announcement to counter TOR, and they deliver this....whatever this is...

Kung Fu Panda?

I have no idea if this is legit or not. I haven't played WoW for years, but people seem dumbfounded right now:Apparently there's some kind of new pvp arena that's basically a xerox of huttball, too.

Wow....uhm I am speechless. If the silly Cataclysm content and changes didn't drive me away, then holy hell this would.

I am unsure about it being a goof but someone doesn't make all that graphical stuff and then put it in a mini trailer for no reason. If it was April 1st then I know they have done some wacky things to do the April Fools Joke but we aren't anywhere close to that.

This would be almost Sony / Star wars Galaxies foolish if they did that.

*on edit after reading more: The creators of Kung Fu Panda should be suing the crap out of Blizzard.

They really need to make WoW free to play

Ironic that you would say that. Pandarens were originally an April Fools joke. They predate Kung Fu Fanda by years, so they should be okay there.

http://classic.battle.net/war3/pandaren/

Speaking of free-to-play, it looks like DC Universe is going free-to-play soon™. Might give that a few weeks as something to hold me over until early december.

The wait for TOR's getting real bad for me.

DC Universe had SOOOO much promise, but level 30 was ****ing ass, and their chat system was ****ing terrible all because of the ps3 version.

SoE always ****s up games that have much much promise.

I like the idea of a new class and new race that can be either Alliance or Horde, but other than that it seems like a whole lot of meh. But I'm more of a casual WoW player, so maybe there is something there to get excited for.

I'm just trying to wait patiently for SWTOR... trying :evil:

Was talking to the wife about getting two copies of this, one for me, and one for my 9 year old so we can play it together. I told her I thought he was old enough to think it was awesome once he figured it out, and to test it out without ruining any suprise, I asked him to take a look at the video posted in the link above that has the opening cutscene of the game.

So I pull up the video and start playing it with him there with me and he says..."Oh! The old Republic! I was trying to sign up for that game." I was suprised he knew the name of it on sight, but thought he might have just been reading it from the screen, so I asked him what he meant by "sign up" since it was a game that wasn't out yet. He said "yeah, I know, but they are doing some sort of testing thing." I said "beta test?" "Yeah, that, I tried signing up for it, but they wouldn't take my e-mail for some reason, I found it on (some random starwars site that has little kid games on it)."

I only laughed and said cool, and then told the wife later, Yeah, I think he would be good with getting that for Christmas...he was already trying to sign up for beta testing. She said...what is beta testing?

I'd like to find a good Old Republic podcast, but the ones I've found so far have just been "meh". Which is understandable, since the game isn't even out yet. But I'd still like to find one with hosts that don't annoy me.

The only ones I'm familiar with are darth hater's, mos eisley radio and corellian run radio. I don't really listen to any of them though. They don't generally cover anything I don't already know...

Im doing the same for my 8 year old, he knows he's getting it tho. Im also beta testing so he's seen it and cant wait to play with Dad :) good times ahead

I pulled out KOTOR2 and have been playing it since he showed interest in Old Republic and he has been hooked on watching me play that. He is grounded currently, so he can't play though.

I need to get another computer for us both to be able to play when the new one comes out though, gotta get moving on that.

Should donate $1500 to me so I can build a new one and dump this 2002 Dell.