A page of links to reference material, people, research groups, organizations, software and much more. Boston University's Interactive WWW Games . Boston University Scientific Computing and Visualization Group. Mind Sports Olympiad . From an international organization that promotes tournaments, their pages have links to other web sites for chess, checkers, backgammon, Go, Othello, Scrabble and more.
Many sites offer opportunities to play online against computer programs.
Centre for Research on Simulation in the Social Sciences. Many computer games are, in effect, artificial societies, although they are of course constructed for entertainment rather than for analytical understanding. Some artificial life simulations are also mainly of interest because they are artificial societies. In The Handbook of artificial Intelligence, ed. Barr, Avron and Edward A. Feigenbaum, Volume 1, 43-45.