Game Study Links & Resources

Conferences:

• Focus on Games Research
  • FDG http://www.digra.org/cfp-digrafdg-2016-1st-joint-international-conference-of-digra-and-fdg/ 
  • DIGRA http://www.digra.org/cfp-digrafdg-2016-1st-joint-international-conference-of-digra-and-fdg/
  • IEEE CIG http://www.ieee-cig.org/ (C-ranked)
  • CHI http://chi2016.acm.org/wp/ (A*-ranked)
  • CHI Play http://chiplay.org/

• Focus on Computer Science Education
  • ACM SIGCSE Symposium http://www.sigcse.org/ (A-ranked)
  • ACM ITICSE http://www.sigcse.org/events/iticse (A-ranked)

• Virtual Reality & Immersion
  • ILRN conference www.immersivelrn.org/ilrn2016/
  • ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) http://www.vrst2016.lrz.de/ (A-ranked)
  • IEEE VR

Journals:

• Entertainment & Gaming
  • ACM Computer in Entertainment
  • Elsevier Entertainment Computing http://www.journals.elsevier.com/entertainment-computing/ (SNIP: 1.615)
  • International Journal  of Computer Game Research http://gamestudies.org/1501
  • IGI International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-gaming-computer-mediated/1125
  • Games & Culture https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/games-and-culture/journal201757
  • Simulation & Gaming http://sag.sagepub.com/

•  AI in Games
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games http://cis.ieee.org/ieee-transactions-on-computational-intelligence-and-ai-in-games.html
    

• VR
  • Springer Virtual Reality http://www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/journal/10055 (2014 IF: 0.667)

• Games and Education 
  • IGI International Journal of Game-Based Learning http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-game-based-learning/41019 (n)
  • Elseviers Computers & Education http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-education (SNIP: 3.409, IF: 2.881)

• Digital Heritage Context
  • ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) http://jocch.acm.org/

Contests:

• http://qvconf.com/best-of-quo-vadis-show
• https://www.imaginecup.com/

Datasets:

• Game Trace Archive: http://gta.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/  (inlcuding WOW, DOTA)

Social Media and Network Technologies Journal

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE),
• ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD),
• AACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST),
• Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM),
• Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS),
• ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB),
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD)
• World Wide Web Journal,
• Social Networks,
• Internet Mathematics,
• IEEE Intelligent Systems
• SIGKDD Exploration.

Social Media and Network Technologies Conferences

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD),

• World Wide Web (WWW),
• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL),
• Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM),
• International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM),
• Internet Measuring Conference (IMC),
• International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM),
• International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE),
• Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM),
• International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI),
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI),
• Computer-Human Interaction (CHI),
• SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM),
• Hypertext (HT),
• Social Computing Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction (SBP)

Erik Champion also provides a neat post on this: https://erikchampion.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/what-are-the-best-game-and-virtual-environment-journals/