Web Resources

Here is a list of websites that might be interesting to games researchers. I tried to subdivide them into useful headings.

Overview
Conference/Lecture Videos
Databases
Competitions/Events
News/Reviews/Blogs
(Research) Organizations/Projects
Miscellaneous

Conference / Lecture Videos
AltDevConf Lectures – Conference Videos of the AltDevConf
Game Lectures @ ITU Copenhagen, Denmark – Game lecture videos
Game Lecture Series @ NYU Game Center, USA – Game lecture videos
Philosophy of Computer Games 2007 – Video Archive of the Conference
RocKonference March 15, 2013 – 2 hour Registration of a Conference presentation

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Databases / Blogs
The Arcade Museum – Formerly known as the KLOV (killer list of videogames)
Casual Gameplay/Jay is Games – Site for casual (Flash) games
Choice of Games – Play Multiple Choice Games
EdWeb’s Collaborative Games for Learning Database
Cultural Studies Podcasts – Conversations with artists, writers, intellectuals, etc
Digiplay.info – A large bibliography of computer games research
Game Art Virtual Library – List of exhibitions and books on game art
Gameconfs – A directory of game industry events
Game Lectures @ ITU Copenhagen, Denmark – Game lecture videos
Game Rankings – Ranks every game imaginable
Games and Simulation for Healthcare, Database of Healthcare games
Games for Change – Database of Serious Games
Gametrailers.com – Database with all kinds of game trailers
Health Games Research Database – Database with Health Games
IGN.com – A large database of video games, cheats, walkthroughs, etc
Math Chimp – Math Games Database
The Mud Connector – An index of text-based MUDs/virtual worlds
Pica-Pic – Database of Playable Handheld Games
PlayForce (Beta) – Database of the Institute of Play
Playing History – Database on Historical Games
PlayTimes – Overview of Children’s Games and Rhymes (British Library)
Science Game Center – Database with Science Games
Serious Games Classification – Classification Database
Serious Games Directory – Database on Serious Games
Virtual Worlds Observatory – Database of research on virtual worlds
Worls’s Biggest Pac-Man – Play and Create Pac-Man Mazes

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Game Competitions / Game Events
ACE 2011 Game competition, Lisboa, POR
BotPrize – Granada, SPA
Dare to be Digital – Dundee, UK
Game Jame Belgium – Genk, BEL
Global Game Jame – Various locations
Imagine Cup – New York City, NY, USA
Independent Games Festival – San Fransisco, CA, USA
Ludum Dare – Online Competitions
Nordic Game Jam, Copenhagen, DNK
PlayExpo, New York, NY, USA
Portsmouth Game Jam – Portsmouth, UK
Researching Games BarCamp – Wiesbaden, GER (German site)
Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (AUS & NZL) – Adelaide, AUS
Serious Games Showcase & Challenge – Orlando, FL, USA
Solmukohta – Helsinki, FIN
What Would Molydeux – Various Locations

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News / Reviews / Blogs
Booze and Video Games – Blog about the Art of Pairing Games and Booze
Cats in Games – Blog about cats in games
CommonSense Media – Reviews and Ratings
The Escapist – Online Magazine on Games
Eurogamer – PC and Console Games Reviews and News
First Person Scholar – Game Critic Think Pieces
Gamasutra – News and Blogs from a Game Design Perspective
Game Breaker TV – News and game shows
Game|Life – Wired’s news about gaming
The Gameological Society – Independent online magazine on games as art/culture
GamePolitics – Where politics and video games collide
Game. Play. Learn! Show – Show about educational games and simulations
Games Brief – The business of games
GameSpot – Video Games News and Reviews
Gaming the Past – Historical Games Blog
MMOGames – Site with MMO related news, games and more
MMO Report – Weekly online show with MMO news
Rock, Paper, Shotgun – PC Gaming Blog
VGChartz – Charts, News and Information on Video Games

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(Research) Organizations/Projects
Center for Games and Impact – Research Center in Arizona, USA
Christian Game Developers Conference Community – An Online Community of Christian Game Developers
Computer Spiele Museum – German Museum for Games/Play
Digital Cartography – Digital maps as new techno-cultural phenomena
Digital Culture and Communication – Part of ECREA, used for communicating events
Digital Games Research – Part of ECREA, focused on game research
Digital Romance Lab – Love and romance in video games
DiGRA – Digital Games Research Association website
DiGRA Students – Student Network of Digital Games Research Association
Dutch Game Garden – Business center for game startups (mainly in Dutch)
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA)
Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) – Program and projects around entertainment technology
E-Sports Yearbook – Yearbook series with articles on E-Sports
Gamelab UK – Media company that produces interactive TV programmes
Game Research – The art, business and science of video games
Games and Play (GaP) – Center for the Study of Digital Games and Play
Games for Learning Institute – Research Website on Learning Games
Gamification Research Network – Research hub for gamification research
Gamification Lab – Blog about gamification research
How They Got Game – Research Project on interactive simulations and video games
IGDA – International Game Developers Association
Ludus Animalis – Writing about Animals, Play and Creativity
Newsgames – A New Way of Doing Journalism
Playful Learning – Platform and Network for Playful Learning
Serious Games Initiative – Fosters the serious games industry
The Strong – Interactive museum devoted to history and exploration of play
VGalt – Video Games as Learning Tools
Video Game Studies Scholarly Interest Group – Part of Society for Cinema & Media Studies
Virtual Economy Research Network – News, research and discussion on virtual economies
Virtual Policy Network – A think tank on virtual policy
Virtual Worlds Research Network – Knowledge-sharing tool on virtual worlds

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Miscellaneous
Arab Social Media Report – Report on the use of Social Media in the Arab Region
Copenhagen Games – Event around eSports an Gaming
Gamesauce – Magazine on Game Developers
PlayExpo – Annual show of interactive entertainment
Terra Nova – A Blog about Virtual Worlds
Tiltfactor – Game Design for Social Change, research based

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