National Geographic gets into gaming

by Jason Dobson { Nov 18th 2008 at 6:45PM }

Taking a break from merely educating the world about bees with tiny radios and environmental dangers, National Geographic has announced that it is getting into the video game biz. The educational institution has formed a new game division shockingly called National Geographic Games, which will be focused on delivering educational titles across all platforms, including PCs, consoles and handhelds.

Some early fruits of this venture have already fallen from the tree, including Herod's Lost Tomb on the iPhone, as well as Namco Bandai's National Geographic: Panda for the DS. The division is also working with Sony on National Geographic: Africa, with future projects including Rain Forests and Greencity also in the works. The division describes each of these efforts as offering "entertainment with substance," though whether or not that will keep players from tuning out after they get bored of ogling topless natives remains to be seen.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fanboy @ Nov 18th 2008 6:52PM

DOES THIS MEAN WE CAN SEE NAKED AFRICAN-BOOTY-SCRATCHERS!?!?!?!?!!!

Maverick Saturn @ Nov 18th 2008 7:06PM

Good, its about time we had a new breed of FPS games from animals point of view, I've always wondered what they were doing while we were warring on

Wiinterfang @ Nov 18th 2008 7:09PM

Let's see some sexy Seal on Walrus action.

Phil @ Nov 18th 2008 8:51PM

I don't want to see that crap in my games, I get enough of it at home.

Wiinterfang @ Nov 18th 2008 9:01PM

Well then lose some weight.

offday @ Nov 18th 2008 7:35PM

Wolf Quest?

FemaleOrca @ Nov 19th 2008 1:14PM

Excellent call. I would pay $60 for a full HD open world WolfQuest. As long as they keep the "Dead Man" style soundtrack.

Kye - Capcom DF @ Nov 18th 2008 7:43PM

Mating Season 2009!

F*ck yeah!

juju187 @ Nov 18th 2008 7:44PM

the return of mr. mosquito?

aj @ Nov 18th 2008 8:20PM

Me and my 10 foot high stack of back issues of National Geographic are ridiculously excited about this.

And if they keep packaging their games with DVDs, then I'm just going to freak out.

Doug @ Nov 18th 2008 8:53PM

You're either a perv, or an intellect. Can't decide which though.

aj @ Nov 19th 2008 12:24PM

Those pictures of Lech Wałęsa were pretty hot.

Alien Lord @ Nov 18th 2008 8:22PM

If they can pull it off good for them, if not, meh.

MBO @ Nov 18th 2008 10:07PM

"...on delivering EDUCATIONAL TITLES across..."\

Not interested.

t_m @ Nov 19th 2008 3:54AM

good idea. Stay away from education at all costs!

ChemicalPainter @ Nov 18th 2008 10:35PM

I would love to see a game where you take the place of a spider or a bee.

JRM @ Nov 18th 2008 11:23PM

That kind of game was made 15 years ago. It was called SimAnt.

Whatever the case, being a spider must be boring. You just stay perched in your web for hours and hours.

Now that I think of it, a bug fighting game might be interesting. You just use the strengths of some bug vs another. Speed of a centipede Vs. barb of a scorpion.