Starting this Thursday, World of Warcraft players will be able to kill time between gold farming and ganking noobs by playing the only game that comes close to being as Addictive as WoW, Bejeweled. No this isn’t some clever joke by Blizzard, Bejeweled is actually coming to World of Warcraft.
The truly shocking part of the story is the World of Warcraft version of Bejeweled began life as a fan-made mod.
Michael Fromwiller, a student at San Jose State University in California, created a copy of Bejeweled which he called ‘Besharded’. His impressive skills at creating a semi-faithful copy of Bejeweled did not go unnoticed by the original games publisher, PopCap Games.
Thankfully instead of throwing cease and desist orders at the harmless mod maker, they hired him to make an official version of the game. Which is pretty cool considering most companies would have sued his ass into the ground.
Don’t you just love happy endings?
Thanks Wired!
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