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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Discovery to make animal-themed games

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    David Zaslav, Chief Executive Officer of Discovery Communications, speaks at the Reuters Media Summit in New York, November 28, 2007. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Might we see "Meerkat Manor: The Video Game"?

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    Discovery Communications is partnering with the second-biggest U.S. video games publisher Activision Inc to make animal-themed games, Discovery Chief Executive David Zaslav told the Reuters Media Summit on Wednesday.

    Activision will make the games for several game systems, with the titles tied to Discovery's Animal Planet channel, which airs popular shows such as "Meerkat Manor" and "Orangutan Island".

    A Discovery spokesman initially said that games would be based on those shows, but the company later told Reuters that no decisions had been made yet on specific titles.

    Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal lets Discovery tap one of the fastest-growing segments of the entertainment industry, one that is seeing an explosion of games that appeal to younger and older players outside the core audience of teenage boys.

    "We are really trying to get away from being a cable company and into being a content company," Zaslav said. Discovery Communications is owned by Discovery Holding Co, Advance/Newhouse Communications and its founder, John S. Hendricks.

    The nature games are expected to be released in late 2008.

    Activision is riding high on strong sales of its original games like "Guitar Hero 3" but also has a strong portfolio of titles based on licensed properties such as "Spider-Man" and "Transformers."

    (Reporting by Scott Hillis; editing by John Wallace)

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