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GDC drew more than 23,000 attendees to hear diverse perspectives on games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The 2013 Game Developers Conference drew more than 23,000 attendees, matching the number of attendees from a year ago despite a huge amount of turmoil in the video game industry. About half of those attendees are indie game developers, making up for a lot of the attendees who may have dropped out because they lost jobs at traditional game companies.

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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.