BBC NEWS | Technology | Deadly plague hits Warcraft world
"Many online discussion sites were buzzing with reports from the disaster zones with some describing seeing "hundreds" of bodies lying in the virtual streets of the online towns and cities."
This is fascinating. A virtual flu wipes out an online game. Not the first time it has happened either:
"The "Corrupted Blood" plague is not the first virtual disease to break out in game worlds. In May 2000 many players of The Sims were outraged when their game characters died because of an infection contracted from a dirty virtual guinea pig." (otherwise known as the DVGP)
That has to be the acronym of the day.
