Developers at the GDC 2024 event.
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GDC 2025 preview — with 700 sessions and perhaps 30,000 attendees

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Game Developers Conference 2025 will feature more than 700 or so speaker sessions and could draw as many as 30,000 attendees, according to the organizers at Informa.

GDC’s expo passes are selling at a better rate, with double-digit increases for expo floor ticket sales, said Stephenie Hawkins, event director at Informa for GDC, in an interview with GamesBeat. GDC isn’t forecasting a particular number, but last year’s total hit around 30,000.

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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.