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Aubrey Quinn of the ESA on the mainstage at GDC 2025.

ESA launches a major accessibility initiative at GDC

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 20, 2025
6 min

The Entertainment Software Association introduced the Accessible Games Initiative to provideplayers with information about accessibility features in video games. Founding members Electronic Arts, Google,...

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Klondike on Samsung's mobile gaming hub.

Samsung offers 80/20 revenue share for games on the Galaxy Store

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 13, 2025
4 min

Samsung Electronics announced that it will share 80% of revenues and keep 20% for itself for games on the Samsung Galaxy Store. The big...

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4 min

GDC 2025 preview — with 700 sessions and perhaps 30,000 attendees

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 13, 2025
13 min

The Game Developers Conference 2025 will feature more than 700 or so speaker sessions and could draw as many as 30,000 attendees, according to...

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Ovomind uses a wearable to detect gamer reactions to a game.

Ovomind will show its Gen AI game tech that detects gamer reactions at GDC

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 25, 2025
3 min

Ovomind, an AI and “affective computing” startup, plans to show off the first iteration of its generative AI gaming solution at the Game Developers...

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3 min

GamesBeat Crossfire Lounge: Don’t miss game industry leaders going head-to-head on hot-button issues

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 12, 2025
2 min

The 39th annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) is coming up quick in San Francisco, March 17 to March 21, and around the corner, GamesBeat...

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2 min

GDC survey reveals a rocky year of layoffs and AI skepticism for game developers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 21, 2025
9 min

The 2025 GDC survey revealed the impact of industry-wide layoffs in 2024 where one of every 11 game developers lost a job. It also...

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9 min

GDC 2025 event will celebrate how games connect the world

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 21, 2025
9 min

Informa unveiled details of the 39th edition of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) that will take place from March17 to to March 21 in...

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GDC reveals finalists for the 27th Independent Games Festival

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
January 17, 2025
3 min

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week announced the finalists for the Independent Games Festival’s awards event, which is part of the former’s conference....

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Amir Satvat's Games Community will get 240 GDC expo passes.

GDC 2025 gives 240 passes to Amir Satvat’s games community

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 11, 2024
2 min

The Game Developers Conference has decided to help Amir Satvat’s Games Community with the equivalent of a $108,000 grant in the form of GDC...

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Women in Games International brings underrepresented communities to GDC

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
March 18, 2024
2 min

Women in Games International (WIGI) announced today that it is once again appearing at the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) this week. It’s bringing new...

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