The university of Texas, in Austin (is there any other?) have announced a partnership with several game designers to create a game archive.

They plan to have a fund raiser on September 4th, with tickets ranging from a whooping $5,000 to a more reasonable (yet still quite expensive) $75.
The evening includes a charity auction, with one of the auction items being a weightless flight aboard a Boeing 747, recently experienced by physicist Stephen Hawking and made famous for it’s use in the film Apollo 13.

“The center is poised to become a major repository of historically significant material and documentation related to the evolution of the video-game industry,” said Don Carleton, executive director of the Center for American History. “Austin is home to hundreds of the most prominent names in game development. It just makes sense that the University of Texas at Austin house a research archive dedicated to the study of this industry …”

Noted Industry guest include Richard Garriott, Warren Spector, George Sanger and Bill Bottorff.