The Virtual Vulnerabilities Project is an ongoing study into the positive and negative effects of Massively-Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs). An MMORPG is a video game genre capable of supporting thousands of users simultaneously.  By necessity, they embrace the internet as a communication medium and feature at least one persistent world.

This aims of this research project are to investigate:

• The social and psychological precursors to online gaming
• The social and psychological impacts of online gaming to individuals and lifestyles
• Levels of addiction to MMMORPGs
• Threats to personal privacy and safety within MMORPG enviornments

The Virtual Vulnerabilities Project is currently being conducted in the following countries:

	United Kingdom		Thailand
	Greece		Germany
	Singapore		France