With my outrageously poor gaming skills I'd be satisfied with Tetris on the iPhone, but there are people out there who won't be happy until every major title is flickering across that 3.5-inch screen.  Alan Joyce is, I'm sure he won't mind me saying, a World of Warcraft lover, and so the game was one of the first things he tried on getting his new iPhone home.  Of course, you can't actually run the full WoW engine on the dinky cellphone; actually, it's running on Alan's MacBook Pro and the iPhone is acting as a remote display and controller using the Mac software Telekinesis. 

Streaming all that information over the 'net is not going to be good for overall speed, though, and performance confirms it: while reading in-game chat and responding is feasible, other movements are jerky and not too impressive.  I think it's fair to assume it'd be even more painful over EDGE!

Naturally this is just a proof-of-concept rather than a truly useful game for the iPhone, but Alan reports that Telekinesis works great for remotely controlling his Mac.

Alan Joyce [via joystiq]