{"id":20189,"date":"2025-09-24T14:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/even-a-rebrand-may-not-be-able-to-save-americas-most-storied-gaming-event\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:37:22","slug":"even-a-rebrand-may-not-be-able-to-save-americas-most-storied-gaming-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/even-a-rebrand-may-not-be-able-to-save-americas-most-storied-gaming-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Even a rebrand may not be able to save America\u2019s most storied gaming event"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: since 1988 the Game Developers Conference has been a core part of the gaming calendar \u2013 but exorbitant costs and Trumpism put that at risk<\/p>\n

Every year for as long as I have been alive (read: since 1988), the annual Game Developers Conference has been held in California. It started out as essentially a house party: a gathering of 27 people in the living room of Atari designer Chris Crawford. By the mid-90s it had left Chris\u2019s house and grown to more than 4,000 attenders, and in 2005 found a permanent home in San Francisco\u2019s Moscone Center. These days, about 30,000 game development professionals of all kinds attend every year. The online GDC Vault is a precious trove<\/a> of game development history and useful advice for any gaming discipline.<\/p>\n

GDC has developed a bit of an image problem in recent years, however, as we have reported<\/a> before<\/a>. It\u2019s prohibitively expensive for developers: a conference pass is more than $1,500, and travel and accommodation in one of the world\u2019s most expensive cities quickly multiplies the total cost to anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 (even for a hotel room with approximately the dimensions and safety of a phone booth).<\/p>\n

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\nIn this week\u2019s newsletter: since 1988 the Game Developers Conference has been a core part of the gaming calendar \u2013 but exorbitant costs and Trumpism put that at risk
\nEvery year for as long as I have been alive (read: since 1988), the annual Game Developers Conference has been held in California. It started out as essentially a house party: a gathering of 27 people in the living room of Atari designer Chris Crawford. By the mid-90s it had left Chris\u2019s house and grown to more than 4,000 attenders, and in 2005 found a permanent home in San Francisco\u2019s Moscone Center. These days, about 30,000 game development professionals of all kinds attend every year. The online GDC Vault is a precious trove of game development history and useful advice for any gaming discipline.
\nGDC has developed a bit of an image problem in recent years, however, as we have reported before. It\u2019s prohibitively expensive for developers: a conference pass is more than $1,500, and travel and accommodation in one of the world\u2019s most expensive cities quickly multiplies the total cost to anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 (even for a hotel room with approximately the dimensions and safety of a phone booth). Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s newsletter: since 1988 the Game Developers Conference has been a core part of the gaming calendar \u2013 but exorbitant costs and Trumpism put that at risk Every year for as long as I have been alive (read: since 1988), the annual Game Developers Conference has been held in California. It started out …<\/p>\n

Even a rebrand may not be able to save America\u2019s most storied gaming event<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}