The worldâ??s biggest developer conference draws largest crowd yet

Record numbers for GDC

This year’s Game Developers Conference drew in a record number of industry professionals, organisers have announced.

This year’s turnout stood at 18,250 – a noticeable leap from last year’s total of 17,000 attendees. 



The news cements GDC’s status as the biggest game developer event in the world, hosting a vast array of speaker sessions, panel discussions and keynote lectures from the biggest and brightest developers in the industry today.
 


Develop’s full coverage of the week-long event can be found here.

GDC 2011 will return to the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco next year from Feb 28 to March 4.

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