SEATTLE, WA - (February 5, 2009) Hidden City Games is delighted to announce that it Bella Sara brand has been nominated for the 2008 Women’s Image Network (WIN) Awards Outstanding Video Game.  WIN is a non-profit media advocacy corporation formed in 1993 that promotes equality between genders.    The WIN Awards support film, television, and advertising that follow their vision and “foster a world where everyone WINs.”   The WIN Awards pay tribute to male and female honorees and to competing television programs that portray women as smart, complex, and respectable. 

The winner of the Outstanding Video Game award will be announced on February 17th 2009 in Los Angeles.

About Hidden City Games

Hidden City Games, Inc., a venture-backed game publisher headquartered in Seattle, develops and markets tabletop and online games to interactively engage players and collectors of all ages. The company is best known as the exclusive licensor of Bella Sara for girls ages 7 and up. The inspirational, horse-themed trading cards and magical online world launched nationwide in the United States in March of 2007. Bella Sara, the most successful trading card product ever developed for girls, links to a safe, fun-filled virtual world for kids at www.bellasara.com. Founder and CEO Peter D. Adkison formerly founded Wizards of the Coast, Inc., which created the world’s first trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, and introduced the Pokemon trading card phenomenon to North America.