World Of Warcraft: WoW to Come to Your Cell Phone?

MTV News is reporting that World of Warcraft may soon be available on your cell phone. While not able to play, gamers will be able to keep tabs on certain in-game transactions and communications:

In the biggest surprise of his conversation with MTV News, mentioned right before the banging and clanging of the conference's tear-down overwhelmed the interview and forced a relocation outside, Pearce confirmed that a very small team in Blizzard just might be creating a slice of "World of Warcraft" for cell phones.

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Pearce said he was excited - and then cut himself off. Maybe it was too soon to say more? But he couldn't resist and reached into his pocket for his BlackBerry. He produced it, looked at the screen and started dreaming out loud: "I have an application on my BlackBerry. It's a Google app called Google Chat. It's an IM client, and it's really cool. So as an example, one thing I think would be really cool - and whether we're going to be able to do this, I don't know, but it would be really cool - is if we could have a client on your mobile device like that that hooks you into your guild chat in the game. That would be really cool. Or the ability to view your in-game mail or view your in-game auctions. We probably wouldn't allow you to actually buy or sell via the mobile device, but you could certainly monitor."

So he didn't mean the current 10 million subscribers to "WoW" would be able to play their favorite game on their cell phones. But why couldn't they buy and sell items through it? "We would want you to be logged in for that," Pearce replied. "We would have to look at our infrastructure and see if that would have a notable impact on the experience. There's a lot of considerations we'd have to look at."

Pretty heady stuff for a Wednesday evening. Enjoy!