No this isn't an article from The Onion, but I wish it was a joke all the same. From Wired:

here will PopCap Games' megahit puzzle game Bejeweled pop up next? Would you believe ... World of Warcraft?

A version of the match-three game is set to launch next Thursday within the World of Warcraft MMO (massively multiplayer online), letting players kill time with puzzles during raids and long stints farming rare items.

The added level of addiction will no doubt entertain many World of Warcraft fans, but the real story here is how the game went from a student's pet project to solid evidence that PopCap doesn't subscribe to traditional ideas of corporate hegemony.

Bejeweled Coming to WoW

What I want to know is why they didn't go with Peggle instead....

Just goes to show how boring WoW is that you need to play a different game while playing it....

Eq I think was first to do this with gems, about hmm 7or 8 years ago ?
Eq and EQ2 both have an inbuilt Trading card game (think Magic the Gathering) that can even be played offline and has card drops in game.

WoW is only boring at max level ... long live the alt

...I see. I don't see the big deal with this except maybe that the Popcap are backing it. There are poker games and all sorts of game mods within WOW aren't there?

Indeed. There's been mods that add games to WoW for ages now - I remember playing Chess against guildmates during raid downtime back when we first started with BWL (and Blackrock was seriously unreliable). Kind of stopped that as the Chess mod we used had a nasty habit of popping up during encounters - beating the crap out of a Big Angry Dragon™ and suddenly you're prompted to get out of Check.

Guess it'll make those light windrider flights tolerable.

this story keeps getting sadder and sadder

Just goes to show how boring WoW is that you need to play a different game while playing it....

Cool. So can we now have a character in The Sims playing Bejeweled in WoW?

Jesus talk about getting official confirmation that Wow is boring as batshit. Although you have to give Bliz credit for having people pay a monthly sub to play someone elses game :P

That is just sad. Like pathetic. Wow is so boring to people that they need in-game... er, games? Mods I can understand but for blizzard to make this official? Talk about admitting your game is now a job rather than something fun and entertaining.

Frog wrote pacman into quake ... guess it was boring as batshit too ?

I assume none of you have ever sat in a Quake/whatever/server waiting for a match to start

or playing an S&D cod4 and dying early and waiting the full time limit to play again.

but yer... wow is boring as fuck atm, even arena is boring.. i tried to do some the other day and got over it after RNG saved so many matches for our opponents.

Frog wrote a pacman game into quake as a scoreboard replacement I believe.

And I can remember spending ages bouncing (well bobbing in the water atleast) around in clanring practice mode wanting for wankers to ready up in team dm.

siftn't bind p color 2 13;ready

obes, besides you, jim, term and mantra, no one knows who frog is!

siftn't bind p color 2 13;ready

Hah, this was the first thing they made me do when I first started playing teamdm. Good days.

/bind p say "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD READY UP!1"

Frog wrote a pacman game into quake as a scoreboard replacement I believe.

it was pong.

And I can remember spending ages bouncing (well bobbing in the water atleast) around in clanring practice mode wanting for wankers to ready up in team dm.

team dm waiting had nuthn on when the rocket-arena mod hit the quake scene... that was so painful coz everyone at the time was playing ra n teh wait between spawns could be like 15 duels !$@!!$!@

obes, besides you, jim, term and mantra, no one knows who frog is!

so a noob might believe but frog was well-known in the quake-c mod community... plus ya know... rc clan member, aot clan memeber, writer of the frogbot, qld quake duel champion! ;p

Casa sucks to be you then. Frog left gaming and ...
This is Frog after he left Brisbane to go become important and rich and stuff

TLDR ? ... Medal of honor, COD2 and COD4 programmer.

At least in Quake when you were waiting for all the slow fucks to /ready you could mess around shooting each other though; I always found that fun enough to not be bored waiting for the game to start. From what I've seen of WoW (admittedly not much) I can see why you'd want Bejeweled though; when you're waiting for a big group thing to kick off or get ready there's a shitload of standing around waiting for everyone to get their shit together.