The annual IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG) aims to be a leading venue for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and novel approaches to bring innovation in and through games. Games are a great domain to study and develop novel ideas in design, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, psychology, education, sociology, and creativity, as well as their applications in real-world problems.

IEEE CoG 2026 will take place at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, located in Madrid, Spain.

We invite contributions related to all game aspects, including, but not limited to:

Accessibility and inclusivity in games
AI for game development (automated playtesting, adaptation/personalization in games, etc.)
Esports and live-streaming
Extended reality (virtual reality, mixed reality, and augmented reality)
Game analytics, game data science, and data visualization
Game design (frameworks, game mechanics, etc.)
Game editors and authoring tools
Game-playing AI
Game technology (game engines, graphics, audio, animation, physics, networking, controls, etc.)
Game user research (player/opponent modeling, player experience studies, psychology of play and player types, etc.)
Games as test-beds for algorithms
Games for education, learning and development
Generative AI for games
Player-computer Interfaces
Procedural Content Generation
Serious/applied games (for health, sustainability, etc.)

Please note: CoG is not a conference about game theory and does not accept papers about game theory unless they are applied to games people would play, such as video games or board games.

This is a call for full technical papers. We invite the submission of full *technical* papers with an 8 page limit. Full *technical* papers should provide a technical or empirical contribution to scientific or engineering aspects of games. Relevant dates for this call are as follows:

Submission of full technical papers: 17th March 2026
Notification of acceptance of full technical papers: 1st May 2026
Submission of the camera-ready version of full technical papers: 28th May 2026

All page limits include references and appendices.
NONE OF THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES WILL BE EXTENDED.
All deadlines are Anytime on Earth (AoE).

Other important dates:

Submission of auxiliary papers: 14th May 2026
Notification of acceptance of auxiliary papers: 10th June 2026
Submission of the camera-ready version of auxiliary papers: 24th June 2026
Games industry talk proposals: 10th April 2026
Notification of acceptance of games industry talk proposals: 24th April 2026
Early bird (and author) registration: 24th June 2026
Conference dates: 1st – 4th September 2026