It looks like NeoGAF’s younger members will become American history buffs as a new game is released that will teach 10th graders a full year’s history course by using a full story-based game and a web-based interface.

Florida Virtual School and 360Ed have teamed up to create ‘Conspiracy Code: Mindbender’. 360Ed claims that the game will teach American History in ”a full course of high school intensive reading” to 10th graders.

The game sees teens take control of secret agents Eddie Flash and Libby Whitetree, both 16 years of age, as they fight to save the futuristic Coverton City from Conspiracy Inc., a group of evil do-ers who are corrupting citizens with subliminal messages. 

Students will work through the clues while also learning and reporting back to their teachers via the seamlessly integrated web features – including a forum. We reckon it’ll be full of haxxorz and xploitz and lots of posts titled ‘mrs. crandall s a n00b lolz’.

Jokes aside, it actually looks quite good. But why not let them play the Call of Duty series instead? It teaches them all about authentic (and not-so-authentic) American history overseas, key communication skills over Xbox Live, how to pwn those they’ve killed by corpse-humping and how to save the world from terrorists in a ridiculous and over-the-top manner. Surely those are more important life skills.

Anyway, the demo’s here and here’s a vid all about Conspiracy Code.

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