Founded in 2004, Games for Change is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that empowers game creators and social innovators to drive real-world impact through games and immersive media. We convene industry experts through our annual Games for Change Festival, inspire youth to explore civic issues and STEAM skills through our Student Challenge, and showcase leading impact-focused games and immersive experiences through live Arcades for the public. In addition, G4C incubates and amplifies new projects through thought-leadership, cross-sector consulting, executive production and direct funding through the G4C Accelerator.

he NYU Game Center is dedicated to the exploration of games as a cultural form and game design as creative practice. Our approach to the study of games is based on a simple idea: games matter. Just like other cultural forms – music, film, literature, painting, dance, theater – games are valuable.

The Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab was a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the government of Singapore created to explore new directions for the development of games as a medium.

An innovative humanities program that applies critical analysis, collaborative research, and design across media arts, forms, and practices.

The mission of the Games for Entertainment and Learning (GEL) Lab at Michigan State University is to design innovative prototypes, techniques, and complete games for entertainment and learning and to advance state of the art knowledge about social and individual effects of digital games.

The UT Videogame Archive seeks to preserve and protect the work of videogame developers, publishers and artists for use by a wide array of researchers.

A crowd-sources and curated archive of games, criticisms, and scholarship.

We will be hosting the 21st annual MSU GameDev Student Showcase on Thursday April 30, from 7:00 – 9:00pm in Room 154 Communication Arts and Sciences! This year we will have an open house style format to demo our best student game projects from Spring semester. We are encouraging all students, faculty, friends, and family to attend this event and play these outstanding student games!

Meaningful Play 2020 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. October 1-3, 2020 East Lansing Michigan.

Founded in 2006, VentureBeat is the leading source for transformative tech news and events that provide deep context to help business leaders make smart decisions and stay on top of breaking news. VB is recognized as the leading media authority in artificial intelligence and machine learning*. It also offers the most incisive coverage of the game industry. Whether you come for the articles, read our newsletters, or attend our events, you will emerge from VentureBeat with new knowledge, perspective, influences, and connections.

IGDA is the world’s largest nonprofit membership organization serving all individuals who create games. We bring together developers at key industry conferences and in over 150 chapters and special interest groups (SIGs) to improve their lives and their craft. Whether you’re a student with a goal to become a game developer or a seasoned veteran; whether you’re based in the United States or any other country or region in the world; whether you’re an indie developer or in a AAA studio; whether your primary platform is a PC, console, mobile device, VR/AR, or a tabletop—we welcome you home to the IGDA!