Playing by the Rules - The Cultural Policy Challenges of Video Games University of Chicago, October 2001. Descriptions of panels, bios and links for numerous speakers, a lot of links to other game related sites, including game policy and research. http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/

Game On 2002 London, UK. 27-28 November 2002. Third International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation. Announcement and call for papers. http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1822/gameon.htm#gameon2002

Playing with the Future: Development and Directions in Computer Gaming Manchester, England. 5-7 July 2002. Abstracts and programme available. http://www.cric.ac.uk/cric/gamerz

Board Games in Academia IV Fribourg, Switzerland. 17-21 April 2001. Yearly colloquium. Programme and abstracts. http://www.unifr.ch/psycho/pgp/boardgames/

Text-Based Virtual Reality Transcript of a seminar held at Meridian MOO in 1994. http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~cynthiah/lingua_archive/meridian-moo-seminar.txt

Computer and Video Games Come of Age National conference held at MIT in 2000. Full transcripts of sessions on games as interactive storytelling, aesthetics, and game design. http://web.mit.edu/cms/games

Computers and Games 2002 (CG'02) Edmonton, Canada. 25-27 July 2002. International conference with emphasis on research and development in use of artificial intelligence in games. http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/cg2002/

Talbot, Ben: "Compete, Command and Conquer" A trip report from the International Games Cultures Conference in Bristol, UK, 29 June-1 July 2001. http://www.cult-media.com/issue2/CMRtalb.htm

International Conference on Application and Development of Computer Games Hong Kong. 6-7 January 2003. Theme this year is networked and multiplayer games and security. Development focus, but educational and other topics to do with games are also welcome. http://www.adcog.org/

Digital Arts and Culture: Streaming Wor(l)ds Melbourne, Australia. International conference exploring new media art, games and theory. http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac

Trivial Pursuits: Games and Game Playing in the Classical World Programme abstracts and related links from a conferece held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://classics.lss.wisc.edu/symposium

Digital Games Research Conference 2003 Video game research conference located at the University of Utrecht, in The Netherlands. http://www.gamesconference.org

Computer Games and Digital Cultures Tampere, Finland. 6-8 June 2002. Aesthetic, narrative and structural issues as well as bridging academia and industry. Programme and general conference information. http://www.gamesconference.org/index2002.html

International Game Developers' Association: Calendar A list of conferences and events of interest to game researchers and developers. Linked, annotated and chronologically ordered. http://www.igda.org/events/

Cosign Conference Computational Semiotics for Games and New Media: explores how semiotics can be used in creating and analysing games and new media. http://www.cosignconference.org/

Fun is Fine: Toward a Philosophy of Game Design Article reviewing David Kennerly's philosophy. http://finegamedesign.com/fun_is_fine.html