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The 2022 state of the game industry report.

GDC: Game devs focus on unionization, fighting toxicity, and adopting blockchain/metaverse

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 20, 2022
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...

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GDC starts today with over 550 virtual talks on game development

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 19, 2021
5 min

The Game Developers Conference kicks off today as a virtual event featuring more than 550 talks on game development from Monday through Friday. And...

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GDC 2019 drew about 29,000 people to San Francisco.

GDC spreads out its events from March to July

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2021
2 min

The Game Developers Conference will spread its events out this year, with some taking place in March as expected and its larger conference taking...

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GDC is coming back for the summer from August 4 to August 6 as a virtual event.

GDC Summer offers 112 virtual sessions for 7,500 attendees

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 4, 2020
4 min

The Game Developers Conference got derailed as a physical event in March because of the pandemic, but the virtual version will happen over the...

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GDC: Pandemic is clobbering indie game devs and freelancers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 16, 2020
7 min

Small game development studios and freelancers are having a tough time coping with the pandemic, even though the video game industry hasn’t been hit...

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GDC survey: Game devs favor unionization, PC, and next-gen consoles

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 24, 2020
7 min

Game developers favor the unionization of their industry. They consider the PC to be the best platform to develop games for. And they are...

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A scene from the Fortnite/Epic booth at GDC 2019.

GDC chief Katie Stern interview — What keeps game developers up at night?

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 11, 2019
11 min

Katie Stern took over as general manager of GDC Events in August 2017. Since then, she has learned more about what keeps game developers...

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Katie Stern is the Game Developers Conference’s new general manager

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 25, 2017
1 min

The Game Developers Conference has named Katie Stern as its new general manager starting on August 7. She’s taking over for industry vet Meggan Scavio,...

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