World of Warcraft could be heading to the iPhone

We've seen a fair few spoofs of big releases like World of Warcraft for the iPhone and mobile phones in general, but this one looks a little more convincing than usual. A video of the game in action has been posted on Youtube, and you can watch it yourself below.

So, why is this more convincing than the average fake video?

We're taking this one a little more seriously because it's based on a much-touted ‘cloud' approach to gaming, where all the complicated stuff in terms of processing is done in the background, with just the video of the gamplay itself streaming to your device.

In the video, the game is running off the Vollee client, an application designed to allow mobile phones with 3G capability to run games in this remote fashion. Vollee has already used its software to demonstrate the massively online life sim Second Life, so getting World of Warcraft to run on it is far from a pipe dream.

ActivisionBlizzard, publishers of the game, and Vollee have already announced a partnership, so the potential for this video to be the real deal, albeit once in the works, is there. With more than 11 million paying subscribers, adding World of Warcraft to the iPhone's gaming roster would be a huge boon for the device, especially since playing freely on the go is a fantasy of many a hopefully addicted Warcraft fan.