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With 23,000 expected attendees, GDC will drill down into everything from PS4 to free-to-play

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Game Developers Conference will be a big one this year, with talks on the PlayStation 4 and all of the disruptive forces that are trying to unseat the consoles. More than 23,000 attendees are expected to make the pilgrimage to San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center from March 25 to March 29, or slightly more than last year’s 22,500.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.