GDC 2022 drew 12K attendees in person.
GDC 2022 drew 12K attendees in person.
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GDC 2022 drew 12K attendees in person and 5K online

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Game Developers Conference drew more than 12,000 industry professionals to attend in-person in San Francisco last week. And another 5,000 joined GDC 2022 on the online platform.

The show was the largest conference in San Francisco since the start of the pandemic, taking place at the Moscone Convention Center from March 21 to March 25.

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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.