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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.
National Geographic gets into gaming originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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National Geographic gets into gaming 
