Uh oh! I need to quickly run-off for a sec to delete my Blood Elf wizard from World of Warcraft and my hobbit minstrel from Lord of the Rings Online, because I'd certainly hate for this trend to continue and suddenly find myself without an account to play on. How do you exactly prove you're a man or woman to them? I can't see flashing them being exactly legal.

From the article:

Shanda (Nasdaq: SNDA) subsidiary Aurora Technology has frozen game accounts of male players who chose to play female in-game characters in its in-house developed MMORPG King of the World, reports 17173. Aurora stipulates that only female gamers can play female characters in the game, and it requires gamers who chose female characters to prove their biological sex with a webcam, according to the report.

Read the full article over at kotaku.com