Miscellaneous links on Game Developement:

• Playing the game, by Simon Larsen. Gamasutra Article and Thesis, August 2002. Article on game development management.
• The 400 Project. The 400 Project is an ambitious attempt to collect "The 400 Rules of Game Design."
• Gamasutra - Game Developer magazine's web presence. Often has articles from the magazine along with discussion forums on various game problems. The post-morteums are always a fun read.
• Game Developement Search Engine - A good starting place for finding resources and tutorials to help get you on your way.
• GameDev.net - all your game development needs
• Gamedev.net's Forum on Game Design. A forum for discussing the art of game design from some in the industry.
• Garage games Site that aims to provide independent developers with tools and knowledge, read their FAQs!
• Java game development tutorial
• PC World Sprite Library For all the 2D folks, here's a library of 700+ royalty free game sprites.
• Gameaholic files archive. Source, shareware games, etc
• Flipcode - Game Developement News and Resources
• Stendal's programming links - Lots of good resources, but not very well organized, awful background color
  

A list of some of the tools (game engines and sdks) available to help build games:

• irrlicht open source C++ light weight game engine, cross platform support
• OGRE Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine, free and open-source 3D graphics engine
• clanlib multiplatform game library with sources and binaries available for both Windows and Linux. It has support for 2D and 3D graphics (through OpenGL, DirectX, and others), sound, and I/O (keyboard/mouse/joystick).
• NeoEngine Another free and open-source 3D engine; does more than just graphics.
• Genesis3D Yet another free and open-source 3D engine. A bit older than OGRE and Neo, with capabilities about on the level of Quake2.
• Torque (A real overkill game engine, has a bit of a learning curve too, but is full featured and opensource)
• Blender Creator Blender Creator is an excellent rendering package that now comes with facilities for creating games built in. The interface is less intuitive than some comparable packages, but it's free! It's available for many platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BeOS, SGI, and more.
• Allegro Allegro is a long-running 2D game toolkit a lot of people have had success with in the past. The readme provides some information on what the toolkit can do.
• Conitec A6 Gamestudio
• Blitz Basic
• Dark Basic
• The Games Factory (Clickteam)
• Game Maker (Mark Overmars)
• Paint Shop Pro (Jasc, Inc.)
• Audition (Adobe, was CoolEdit 2000 by Jasc)

Some game-related industry conventions:

• The Independent Game Festival
  http://www.igf.com
• Electronic Entertainment Exposition
  http://www.e3expo.com/
• Game Developers Conference
  http://www.gdconf.com/
• Serious Games Summit
  http://www.gdconf.com/conference/seriousgames.htm