GDC 2019 drew about 29,000 people to San Francisco.
GDC 2019 drew about 29,000 people to San Francisco. In 2021, it will be online only.
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GDC goes all-digital for its rescheduled August event

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Game Developers Conference has decided that GDC Summer will now be an all-digital event, getting rid of the physical side of the rescheduled gathering.

The GDC was originally scheduled for March, but the organizers pushed it back to August after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. They were planning to do the August event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. But now the plans for a physical event are gone, due to lingering concerns over whether it’s safe to have in-person events.

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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.