The World of Warcraft or WoW as it is popularly known is a virtual world that boasts of more than 10 Million players. This massive world has had its share of problems and here is a new one. As per a report on crunchgear:
The MMORPG world is too big a target to resist, I guess. Worm-wranglers in China created a worm falled Frethog, which this new one Taterf is based on. It copies itself around, executes whenever you look at it, and by means of keylogging, packet sniffing, or other methods, determines your online game login info. It’s targeting the big ones, like WoW, Lineage, and even Steam.
Once they’ve got your info, they’re free to do what they want: auction off your items, change your password and sell your account, or just play it I suppose, though I doubt that’s happening much
What do you get when you combine the most popular gaming console (Wii) and the most popular MMORPG in history (WOW), you get a combination that can be at best yelled out as WOW-Wii. 2 German students from German Research Center For Artificial Intelligence managed to surf Google Earth using a Wii-Fit Balance Board? Now they have reached further hacking Wii-fit and using the white balance board in the biggest MMOG World of Warcraft blending exercise and in-game raiding experience.
Grad students Matthieu Deru and Simon Bergweiler showed in a you -tube video titled “User Interactions with the Wii Balance Board”, how they used the periphal of Wii-fit to control the movement inside World of Warcraft. Here is the link to that video -
They change the characters’ orientation by leaning forwards and backwards, and then lean forward or backwards for movement in those various directions .Seems like Now WOW players can be in a dark room and get slightly fitter all at the same time :P.Serious developers should take hint at this, so they could implement both the board and remote for an action title.
World of Warcraft has over 10 Million subscribers, it is the biggest MMORPG in the world and is growing at an alarming rate. This addiction has lead to WOW being called the “The World of Warcrack”, reports of people dying while playing the game can be found all over the web. A new documentary called Second Skin revolvoing around the addiction of MMORPGs was released on 7th March and received a gr8 response. According to the website:
“Second Skin takes an intimate look at computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by the emerging genre of Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs). World of Warcraft, Second Life, and Everquest allow millions of users to simultaneously interact in virtual spaces. Second Skin introduces us to couples who have fallen in love without meeting, disabled players who have found new purpose, addicts, Chinese gold-farming sweatshop workers, wealthy online entrepreneurs and legendary guild leaders - all living in a world that doesn’t quite exist.”
click here to go to the official page, you can also view the triale below.
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