Recently, UK based Slitherine Software announced plans to self-publish their own games beginning in 2009. Today the company announced yet another direction as they have entered into an agreement to make games based on Horrible Histories, the well known children's book series.

Published by Scholastic, the series has sold 20 million copies since 1993 with author Terry Deary and illustrator Martin Brown attempting to make history fun for kids "by focusing on the bits kids don't get taught at school." The games from Slitherine will be released for the PC and other platforms in spring 2009. There's no word yet on what form of game it will take.