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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Women in Games International needs funding, and they’re not above selling off their stuff to get it! They’re kicking off the WIGI Celebrity Ebay Auction tomorrow, with more than a hundred bits of video game merchandise and memorabilia up for grabs. Items have been donated from Bungie, Microsoft Game Studios, Electronic Arts – even the Cartoon Network team has chipped in items to help fund the international non-profit organisation that has been working for years to make sure women get a fair shake in the industry.
The items range from pretty spiffy, like this signed copy of the Xbox 360 Collector’s Edition Frontlines: Fuel of War, complete with t-shirt signed by the Kaos team, to the slightly less appealing, such as the book “Mobile 3D Game Development: From Start to Market.” Hit the jump for WIGI’s press release, or check out their auction page for the full list of swag up for grabs.
Next weekend the Austin Game Developers Conference will be playing host to “She Got Game”, a conference presented by Women in Games International on Saturday the 8th that looks at the experiences of women in the gaming industry. The keynote speaker for the event will be Dona C. Bailey, a Professor at the University of Arkansas who is known in gaming circles as the first woman to create an arcade game. In 1980 Bailey designed and programmed the arcade classic Centipede along with Ed Logg, and her keynote will focus on women in the industry cultivating and communicating powerful ideas. “I’m hoping to be helpful to someone now who may be in a situation similar to the one I was in at Atari, said Bailey, ” I often wish there had been a group of WIGI colleagues back then from whom I could have gotten advice!”
Other topics to be discussed at the conference included the importance of diversity in development teams and how to expand MMO content and game play for women. More details after the jump.
