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Information on the Foundations of Digital Games conference to be held in Raleigh, NC, May 29 - June 1, 2012. "a focal point for academic efforts in all areas of research and education involving games, game technologies, gameplay, and game design. The goal of the conference is the advancement of the study of digital games, including new game technologies, capabilities, designs, applications, educational uses, and modes of play"

SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM TechWeb Game Network's 2012 Game Developers Conference® (GDC), the world's largest and longest-running event serving professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games, hosted a record-breaking 22,500 game industry professionals last week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, a 17% increase in attendance over the previous year's event.

CAMBRIDGE, MA, Mar 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- "The gaming industry is a harsh environment in which to start and to grow a business. It's risky, hits-driven, and traditionally receives minimal support from governments, banks, incubators, and most modern institutions devoted to nurturing new companies. How then does one survive and, ultimately, thrive? Thursday, April 5, 2012, the 4th Annual MIT Sloan Business and Gaming (BiG) Conference will gather industry insiders, independent developers, gaming enthusiasts, venture capitalists, attorneys, academics, and students from across MIT and other top-tier colleges for a day-long exploration into the business side of the gaming industry." MIT BiG is being held on the MIT Sloan campus in Cambridge, MA the day before PAX East -- one of the country's largest events celebrating gaming culture -- which takes place in Boston, making it convenient for participants to attend both conferences.

Advice from the Game Developer's Conference

"GDC Europe 2012 is the premiere professional conference for the creators of video games within the European community. If you share our passion and commitment for video games, we want to hear from you. GDC Europe is now soliciting session proposals from potential speakers with deep industry expertise and a fresh and unique perspective on the state of the industry."

"This is just a friendly reminder that early bird registration for the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Conference ends in 1.5 weeks. This year, we reduced the student and teacher rates significantly. Early bird regular registration is $350, while it is a mere $50 for students and PK-12 teachers." UW-Madison, June13-15, 2012

Call for Proposals from the Game Studies area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held Wednesday, March 27, through Saturday March 30, 2013 in Washington, DC. List of topics is provided.

Conference information for Games for Health 2012, taking place in Boston, June 12-14.

Information on the Games+Learning = Society Conference occurring in Madison, Wisconsin, June 11-14, 2013

"UBM TechWeb Game Network, organizers of the industry-leading Game Developers Conference™ Europe (GDC Europe), have added fourteen of Europe's leading game developers to the advisory boards of the event's main conference and summits to help program the lectures, panels and roundtable sessions taking place at GDC Europe 2012 this August."

A wiki showing "Calls for Papers" from meetings, conferences and journals. This links to the Games subsection

5th Annual International conference to be held in Bali, May 7-8, 2012

Theme is: The Nature of Player Experience, conference in Madrid, January 29-31, 2012

"Organized by the UBM TechWeb Game Network, GDC 2013 is the game industry's most comprehensive and longest running professionals-only event where game developers converge for a week of learning, networking and inspiration. GDC 2013 will take place March 25 - 29 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. Session proposals can be submitted via the official GDC website at www.gdconf.com. PR Newswire (http://s.tt/1ifpS) "

SEATTLE - Two HASTAC scholars doing research in video games studies at the University of Washington (UW) were recently sponsored by UW's Simpson Center for the Humanities to attend this year's Serious Play Conference. Edmond Chang and Theresa Horstman, graduate students in English and Education, respectively, took part in the conference, which was held at the DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, Washington.

"If you saw some odd costumes wandering the streets of Boston this past weekend, chances are they were en route to a games-related event (I'm talking about you, Anime aficionados). The one I attended, MIT's Business in Gaming conference, contained more suit-clad attendees than outlandish hairdos and capes (thank goodness)."

Games Ireland Conference taking place Wednesday

proposal and accompanying conference paper

from Proceedings of the 12th European Conference of Knowledge Management Academic Conferences Limited

Game Developers Conference, prizes to be awarded March 2012