I just got an email from Marvin Smith at Microsoft recruiting. They’re looking for artists, programmers, game designers and others to join teams developing for Project Natal.

The jobs are in Redmond and look like a fabulous opportunity to be a part of how games will be played in the future.

Click here for details: http://www.microsoft-entertainment-jobs.com/go/Introducing-Project-Natal/150565/?utm_campaign=IEBNatalIntro

Let me know if you get hired!

In the game industry news today we learned id Software has been bought by ZeniMax.

Recently it has seemed like the video game industry is going the way of Hollywood—a few big studios putting out the bulk of the work.

But this sale of id Software shows that small publishers will continue to be powerful in the industry. And if I know id, having worked on many of their projects, they are protecting their intellectual property by this sale.

Because ZeniMax is not Activision Blizzard or EA, id is in a far more powerful position to dictate terms of game release than they have been. This is good news for those of us interested in high quality video games.

I’ll be speaking at the Casual Connect Leadership Development Forum on Monday, July 2oth, 2009 at the Casual Connect video game conference in Seattle.

This conference is co-produced by some new people in Women in Games International. We’ve got some new blood, new enthusiam and new projects!

Thanks to everyone who made it out to the first ever Women in Games International/Blacks in Gaming community mixer at E3!

E3 has been newly revitalized and WIGI was able to produce one of the best networking events of the week! Check out my Facebook page for photos.

More about E3 later. . .