National Geographic gets into gaming
by Jason Dobson 
{ Nov 18th 2008 at 6:45PM }
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.
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.
Haggard @ Nov 19th 2008 2:51AM
There exists such a game for the Wii.
BPMOmega [gamertag] @ Nov 19th 2008 12:29AM
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED:
Pollenated the HELL outta that flower!
t_m @ Nov 19th 2008 3:56AM
Just because something is on a games console, is it a game? I'd say quite a few recent generation releases haven't been "games" as such, and probably are out of place on this kind of blog.
aj @ Nov 19th 2008 12:23PM
I think the notion of what a "game" is is changing. I like that sometimes playing a game doesn't have to be anything but just play, without any real goals.