The 2022 state of the game industry report.
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GDC: Game devs focus on unionization, fighting toxicity, and adopting blockchain/metaverse

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

The Game Developers Conference has released its annual developer survey and found growing support for unionization, the fight against toxicity, and the adoption of blockchain and the metaverse.

The 10th annual State of the Industry Survey comes ahead of the GDC 2022 event, which is still planned to be held in-person as well as virtually in San Francisco 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.