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GDC drew more than 26,000 attendees to 2017 event, down slightly

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Game Developers Conference drew more than 26,000 attendees to its 2017 event, down slightly from 27,000 a year ago. But the event had plenty of highlights, such as a talk about the design of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild by the Nintendo Switch game’s developers.

The GDC’s owner, UBM Game Network, announced that the GDC and the Virtual Reality Developers Conference would return to the Moscone Center in San Francisco on March 19 to March 23, 2018.

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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.