The popularly known National Geographic is venturing into games. If you had known National Geographic before as the yellow-framed magazine that features breathtaking nature shows then brace yourself for the chance that it will be undergoing. First came National Geographic Channel. And for today's technology and gadget crazy world, National Geographic is getting into video games termed as Nat Geo Games.

National Geographic Ventures, a unit of the nonprofit National Geographic Society, announced Tuesday that it will work with game publishers to turn its material into games for PCs, consoles and handheld devices.

The first title — available now for computers and the iPhone — is "Herod's Lost Tomb," a simple hidden-objects game built on a story in the magazine's December issue and a television show about King Herod. It's produced in-house by National Geographic. The company is also working with Namco Bandai Games America and Sony Computer Entertainment to publish and distribute games under its brand for consoles like the Wii and the PlayStation 3.

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