Bejeweled Coming to Warcraft. Yes, Really

[Reposted from Wired via Kotaku]

"Bejeweled, Warcraft Combine to Form World's Most Addictive Game." No, it's not April Fool's. The puzzle game will be added into WoW next Thursday, allowing players to kill time when they're on long, tedious tasks, like waiting for a raid or gold/item-farming.

What's interesting on top of packing one world-class timesuck inside of another (in real world terms, this would be like snorting bacon-flavored meth), is how it all came to pass. Michael Fromwiller, a student at San Jose State, wrote an add-on he called Besharded, which came reasonably close to mimicking PopCap's hit. But it didn't come close enough for PopCap, which instead of sending out a C&D letter, reached out to Blizzard and offered the real thing. And Blizzard accepted. Wired has the word straight from PopCap itself, but a no-comment from Blizzard.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/09/bejeweled-comin.html

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/398207774/bejeweled-coming-to-warcraft-yes-really

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