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Guy plays WoW on iPhone, universe explodes

by Kevin Kelly on Jul 9th 2007 12:15PM

Boy, if this is the future of gaming on the iPhone, then someone had better order up a load of bifocals and a side of patience, because just watching this gave us a headache. He's using a program called Telekinesis that basically streams video from your laptop through your iPhone, and it's not like the game was ported to it specifically, but we sincerely hope gaming on the iPhone will eventually look pretty much nothing like this.

Since Apple was so keen on putting games on the iPod, it's a sure bet that there will be gaming happening on their white-hot cell baby at some point. Hopefully it'll be something a little easier to play than World of Warcraft, and it'll make better usage of that multi-touch technology. We knew that web-based iPhone games would be popping up almost immediately, but we also wish those rumors that there was a Nintendo / Apple iPhone gaming merger coming out were true, too.

[Thanks, Joe W.]

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Tags: iPhone, Mac, PC, World of Warcraft, WorldOfWarcraft

Reader Comments (48)

wtf

He's just using a stupid VNC program. I did the same thing. I played Halo PC on my PSP.

I think they should port this AS IS to the iphone. I would truly enjoy watching all those WOW nerds wander into traffic while trying to finger zoom into the fine print.

Geez, that doesn't even look like fun.

Iphone gain 276 exp in hacks skills

Lame... slow... and unplayable.
Wake me up when there's native Starcraft for the iPhone

When we change our avatar will that retroactively affect all of our previous posts?
And quit it with the Apple rumor. Nintendo would buy them out first anyway.

this looks weird. it doesn't look like this would be useful at all. Although it is pretty cool this guy was able to pull something like this off

Is it the phone or the program that mde him have to retouch the screen just to get it to slide, and move over more of the picture? I thought their touch screens were supposed to be pretty good. I agree with the completely unplayable,but kinda neat because they are the first to do it thinking.

I would love to play some Halflife 2 on my iPhone.

Unplayable, and the camerawork makes my head hurt.

woah. That's crazy awesome!!!

I gotta try this when I get home

why is mario next to my name?

Deep in our hearts, we're all Mario Fans! :)

LOL..this is true.

It must kill anti-nintendo fanboys to now post on Joystiq.

very cool! Now to find my old copies of Grim Fandango and Fallout!

So it's basically streaming gameplay video from his Macbook Pro to his iphone. It's not like the iPhone is actually doing any type of rendering of anything other then decoding video as it's uploaded to it (and it's having problems doing that as well).

None story... nothing to see here

wow puffin, did you come to that conclusion all on your own without reading the first paragraph? you're amazing.

guys, this wasn't supposed to be fun or playable. it was a "proof of concept" and a rather cool demonstration of the Telekinesis software(Mac-only). the point here is that if you can manipulate and use software as complex as WoW, then things that are much simply would totally be usable. log in to you computer from the road using your iPhone, launch iTunes, set it to download a movie or a show and by the time you walk in the door, BANG! you content is waiting for you.

lots of possibilities. and considering Telekinesis is just a few days old, i think it's pretty awesome.

Wow that sounds awesome! Especially because I have a MacBook Pro, but, No iPhone:(

Still the question goes unanswered, Can it play Doom?!?

I'm just guessing but if the iPod can do it, the iPhone can surely do it. Anyway, is there a flash based DOOM game out there?

This is FAKE! People dont play WoW on macs!

people do play wow on macs idiot

am i the only one who thought of mario paint? and yes it should be able to play just about anything.

I was thinking more "march of the mini-marios" but who knows?

Mario Paint rocked!

Wow.. that scrolling feature where you drag your finger, DOESN'T work! haha.. ihype?

Two fingers iTard. Just like the MacBooks.

Isn't this what Sony fanboys were talking about a year ago... streaming PS3 graphics onto their PSPs? What ever happened to that?

You think that it being a Iphone you would not have to type in a thing when it gots a perfectly good microphone and earpiece...

well, maybe you wouldn't raid Kara with this setup... but you could fish.

This is great now all the WOW addicts can get out of their parents' basement and out into the real world. But take it slow because that big bright thing in the sky can burn your pasty skin better get some SPF 90 just to be safe.

i dunno whats sad ridiculing the WoW players, or not knowing what the name of the sun is.

Gaming on the iphone is the death of the PSP, maybe even the DS amongst tech savvy people

Hmmm, you can do this much nicer (for half the price) with a Nokia N800 using the VNC client. But of course it wouldn't be on the JESUSPHONE.

Except the N800 isn't a PHONE, so you'd be better off touting the n95 like all the other iPhone haters. Good day sir

You know, I don't hate the iPhone, I just think this is a spectacularly bad demo. So many iPhone people gushing about how the iPhone lets you do things that windows mobile pda-phones have let you do for years as if the iPhone invented them.

The real killer 'innovation' of the iPhone is the UI (as expected from Apple), not its feature set, which for now is fairly weak. This is what everyone should be playing up. The multitouch is pretty cool tech, and I have some hope for this in the future, but it's underutilized so far.

It's just embarrassing when people get all hyped up about stupid things that other devices have been able to do for years. Apple doesn't invent. It perfects (eventually).

Well, it looked good on paper, but in practice... No.

my hopes were raised then dashed accordingly

My full article on this is located here: http://www.everythingdigital.org/weblog/archives/2007/07/wow_on_my_iphon.html

It wasn't intended to be playable, just a proof-of-concept. I did find that chat was tolerable though.

it looks like a bunch of missed clicks to me.

this guy should be shot in the ass for showing this stupid unplayable non practical, unimpressive, lame, stupid, pointless, video of gaming on iphone.

what concept os it proving? It would only be a proof of concept if he got it to RELLY run ont he phone. No one needed to prove that you could stream video to the iPhone. It doesn't matter that this video happened to be WoW. It could have been anything and it would hve been the same thing.

I saw a better version of this on www.markeedragon.com

I don't think we can play this game on a linux iPhone (see http://zonow.com/78 for linux iPhone).

what if you have nails? rofl

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