GDC 2026: All the news, previews, interviews, demos and more

This week, people from all over the global games industry converge in San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference, now in its 37th year. This year, the event has a slightly different name — GDC Festival of Gaming — and a slightly tweaked focus to match. Though it remains an event for industry professionals to network, make deals, and share deep-dive presentations about the development process of recent games, the organizers of this year’s show hope to appeal to a broader slice of the game development community beyond the C-suite and studio bigwigs, with more varied panels, discussions and events.