He's one of the most famous English language fictional characters of all time but he hasn't had much traction in the video/PC game space. That may soon change for Tarzan as a Italian developer named Twelve (yep that's what they call themselves) has announced it has secured the game rights to the character from the estate of Tarzan's originator Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Twelve will be using the Gamebryo graphics engine to handle their adaptation of Tarzan but beyond that the developer isn't saying much about how they will approach making a game out of the ape-man. They are currently looking for a publisher for their title. Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes was first published in 1912 and he went on to write 23 other Tarzan novels. The character has appeared in tons of movies, TV shows and other entertainment mediums over the past 100 years. We are personally fond of the Bo Derek-Miles O'Keefe movie version but that's just us.