GDC 2024 drew nearly 30,000 attendees.
GDC 2024 drew nearly 30,000 attendees.
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GDC 2024 draws nearly 30,000 attendees, up about 7%

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Game Developers Conference drew nearly 30,000 attendees to San Francisco’s Moscone Center last week, with the numbers up 7% from 28,000 a year earlier.

The show owner Informa also announced that GDC 2025 will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco again on March 17 to March 21, 2025.

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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.