The Center for Computer Games Research currently includes seven assistant and associate professors as well as a number of Ph.D. students, most with backgrounds within the Arts and Humanities, Psychology, Sociology and Design.

The Center of Computer Games Research at the IT University has the goal of becoming one of the major institutions in international computer game research as well as a place for high-level researcher education in the coming years, and to contribute to setting the international research agenda by providing inspired and first-hand experience research into both theory and practice.