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The Lady Version of World of Warcraft‘s New Panda Race is Kind of Ridiculous

Last October, Blizzard announced their newest World of Warcraft expansion, The Mists of Pandaria. One of the major selling points for the expansion is a new player character race: panda-bear people called Pandaren. And yet in the five months until now, all screenshots and trailers featuring the Pandaren have shown exclusively male characters. Today, Blizzard…

By Kate Cox Published March 19, 2012

I’m Not Playing Angry Birds Anymore but New Characters like This Might Pull Me into Angry Birds Space

When you think about it, the Angry Birds are like the collectible guns of a first-person shooter. Once you unlock them, each type does something different. So, if the titular avians of Rovio’s ubiquitous mobile hit are weapons in their own war, the upcoming Angry Birds Space will be increasing their arsenal with a few…

By Evan Narcisse Published March 19, 2012

There is Almost Nothing Entertaining About a Broken Sword

In today’s 88 percent durable edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Deuxhero wonders why game developers continue to include breakable weapons in their adventure games long after the novelty has worn off. So what’s the deal with breakable weapons? Some games do it right, and they generally fall into two camps. One is the…

By Mike Fahey Published March 19, 2012

BioWare Says It Hasn’t Ruled Out Changing Mass Effect 3‘s Ending

The developer posted on Facebook today to say it is “collecting and considering” fan feedback about the controversial ending. BioWare did not mention whether it will be going to the FTC to complain about its fans. [Facebook]

By Jason Schreier Published March 19, 2012

Talk Amongst Yourselves

On Monday, the early bird gets the alien. Or something like that. No matter what time you wake up, you can still enjoy the talk in Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want…

By Evan Narcisse Published March 19, 2012

We Like Kid Icarus: Uprising So Far, Because It’s Weird.

Kid Icarus: Uprising is Nintendo’s big 3DS game of early 2012. Hyped since the early days of the 3DS as one of the major titles for the system, we’ve now been able to play the finished game. It’s fun. It’s weird. No, it’s very weird. We’re not ready to review it just yet. We want…

Kirk Hamilton & Stephen Totilo Published March 19, 2012

International Star Wars Fan Groups Now Accepting The Old Republic as Costume Canon

It may have Lucas’ blessing, but a Star Wars product isn’t a true Star Wars product until the fans accept it into their hearts, or their costuming communities. Both the Light and Dark sides of international Star Wars costuming organizations are now allowing applicants to submit outifts based on BioWare’s massively-multiplayer online role-playing game. While…

By Mike Fahey Published March 19, 2012

Sleeping Dogs Looks Like the Shiny, Vulgar Hong Kong Gangster Video Game I’ve Been Waiting For

I got to play a video game that came back from the dead and feel pretty hopeful about its resurrection. That’s because Sleeping Dogs might just fulfill a very specific desire of mine, which is to play through a video game that takes its cues from the movies of, say, Johnnie To or Chan-Wook Park.…

By Evan Narcisse Published March 19, 2012

What Guild Wars 2 Questions Do You Want Answered?

Another round of Guild Wars 2 beta testing begins soon, and this time I around am arming myself with your questions before taking the plunge into Tyria once again. What can I do for you? Having already learned much of what I wanted to know during my Guild Wars 2 weekend experience last month, I’m…

By Mike Fahey Published March 19, 2012

Battlefield 3 Goes Back in Time, High-Fives Contra

Just in case you ever thought Battlefield 3 would be better with sound effects from Contra and the NES version of Top Gun (and music from Batman), here you go. Battlefield 3, with sound effects from Contra and the NES version of Top Gun It’s amazing how, once the joke wears off, you notice it…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012

When Star Wars Meets High Fashion, AT-AT Drivers Ride French Bicycles

Artist John Woo throws together two very unlikely things – high fashion and the characters of Star Wars – in his “He Wears It” series of prints and images. Don’t let the name fool you, there are ladies as well. And some characters from outside the Star Wars universe, like the T-1000. But mostly, it’s…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012

Be the Humans, or the Giant Shark Monster

Omegalodon is a simple little arcade action game for the PC that gives you an easy choice: either control an enormous shark monster as it smashes through a city, or control the humans trying to stop it. Adding a little strategy to proceedings is the ability of the humans to jump in a wide range…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012

Mass Effect 3’s Multiplayer Stats are Missing One

There’s the usual hours logged and enemies killed in this multiplayer stats report from BioWare, but the most interesting – percentage of players only playing in the first place because they felt they were forced to – seems to have been left out. Which may sound awfully ungrateful, but as robust as it is –…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012

The Skyrim Tourism Board Wants you to Visit Winterhold

Not that Skyrim really needed a tourism board, since millions of people have been spending entire weeks in the place lately, but if it did, you’d hope its efforts would look this classy. These posters were done by artist Dean Walton, and if they look familiar that’s because he did a similar series for Zelda…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 19, 2012

Bit.Trip Runner’s Sequel Just Keeps on Running

The ridiculously good Bit.Trip Runner has a sequel, of sorts, on the way. It’s not part of the Bit.Trip series, though, so it’s simply called Runner 2. Which about sums up what’s going on. Note that, as good as this already looks, it’s a “super sneaky peek” at pre-alpha code, which you’ll eventually realise with…