Devcom drew 5,000 game devs to Cologne in 2024. Source: Devcom
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Devcom survey: AI in development, economic and political uncertainty haunt game developers

Devcom, the big game developer conference starting on August 17 in Cologne, German, has published a survey of its speakers and found that 33% of respondents would like to see as little AI involvement in the development process as possible.

Devcom is Europe’s biggest game developer event, and I’ve attended it for many years.

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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.