GDC starts today with over 550 virtual talks on game development

The Game Developers Conference kicks off today as a virtual event featuring more than 550 talks on game development from Monday through Friday. And GDC announced that next year’s event will return to San Francisco as an in-person event on March 21 to March 25, 2022.

GDC, owned by Informa Tech, is a paid event that features game dev pros talking about the art and science of making games. It’s the 35th edition of the event, and this week’s proceedings are the real meat of the event that was split into two parts — one in March and one this week — because of the pandemic, said Katie Stern, who oversees the GDC as vice president of entertainment media at Informa Tech, in an interview with GamesBeat.