Links

Organisations

DiGRA - Digital Games Research Association
IGDA - International Games Developers Association
Digiplay - British game research organisation
Gama Network - Organisation for game developers, publish Gamasutra and organise GDC.

Newspapers, Magazines and Journals

Gamasutra
GameStudies - International Journal of Computer Game Research
Came Culture - Half-academic with a focus on game design

Conferences

GDC - Game Developers Conference
GDC Europe - European version of GDC
SIGGRAPH - ACMs flagship gpahics conference has a very strong focus on gaming.
Games Conference - Academic conference for game research - likely to replace DIGRA's conference
IJIGS - British conference on gaming and simulation
E3 The world's largest game convention takes place in Los Angeles every year
ECTS Europe's answer to E3
Independent Games Festival - Festival for independent (unfinanced...) game development

Game Collections

Many people and organisation collect games. Here are a few interesting links.

Digital Games Archive - a source of (really) old games
GDC - will have a session that will deal with the possibility of setting up a game museum.
Stanford University - has its own internal game museum.
Abandonware - is software that has been released from copyright protection. This is a link to a webring where a number of games can be found, of which most are VERY old!

Other links

Game Mining - concerns datamining in games
Svenska spelbranchen - a list of Swedish gmae companies and publishers/distributors.