Blizzard Entertainment, developer of the hugely popular massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, has introduced a new system which gives parents control over when their children can play.

To access the system, parents must login to their child's WOW account and set up a parental control password. They can then design a play schedule which determines exactly when the account is accessible.

There are also a number of preset schedules to choose from. These restrict account access to weekends or evenings, for example, or force the player to take a one-hour break at regular intervals and so on.

Players cannot get round the system by switching between characters - once the parental control system is activated; the schedule applies to all characters registered to the account.

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