MMO Business Roundup: GDC’s dev survey, Steam Machine delay, Take-Two’s AI debacle
🔗 https://massivelyop.com/2026/02/06/mmo-business-roundup-gdcs-dev-survey-steam-machine-delay-take-twos-ai-debacle
#GDC #Valve #SteamMachine #GTA6
#GDC
I will be speaking at #GDC and this time my part will be focused on XR + AI, honestly we have some really cool stuff to show you! Stay tuned for more info about the talk.
Metaplace Postmortem (2008): "Snow Crash is a Lie"
jussst after i wished there had been some kind of postmortem done on raph koster's Metaplace, i found out that he himself presented one at GDC 2008!
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/34/Metaplace-Postmortem-Reinventing
if you're not familiar with Metaplace, I don't blame you. It was an attempt at making a web-based graphical MUD/MUSH/MOO/MMO virtual world development system that could be played online in any browser. it disappeared almost as quickly as it was developed.
what i find most fascinating about it was that it had a Lua-based scripting system called Metascript. it featured some really hot runtime behaviours like being able to load/unload scripts on any object. (which means you never needed to recompile to test your world)
More than half of gamedev professionals see GenAI as harmful, according to GDC’s latest survey - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/more-than-half-of-gamedev-professionals-see-genai-as-harmful-according-to-gdcs-latest-survey #GDC #AI
GDC 2026 Report - 36% of devs use generative AI, while 28% target Steam Deck and 8% Linux
#GDC #Linux #SteamDeck #AI
GDC 2026 Report - 36% of devs ...
GDC 2026 Report - 36% of devs use generative AI, while 28% target Steam Deck and 8% Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/gdc-26-report-36-of-devs-use-generative-ai-while-28-target-steam-deck-and-8-linux/
ゲーム業界の専門家2300名以上を対象とした最新の調査結果をGDCが公開。過去2年間のレイオフ経験者は28%に上り、雇用環境の厳しさが浮き彫りに。生成AI利用は進むも「悪影響」の回答が過半数を占める
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/260130v
#denfaminicogamer #Grezzz #GDC_Festival_of_Gaming #ニュース #GDC #業界
One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off in 2025, GDC Study Reveals
Are game devs from outside of the U.S. coming to GDC (Game Developers Conference)?
Should they?
▪️ Rami Ismail says "Cancel. Genuinely. Cancel."
▪️ GDC's own survey shows 31% of those surveyed had already canceled travel plans to the U.S.
GDC is already asking "why do we have an event just in the United States?"
I hope GDC does well but leaves the U.S. - along with other international conferences and events.
https://game.substack.com/p/a-tumultuous-time-in-the-game-industry
These numbers ain't looking good...
More than a quarter of devs surveyed by GDC were laid off in the past two years, and half of them don’t have a new job | VGC
One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off in 2025, GDC Study Reveals
#Variety #News #GDC
https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/one-third-video-game-workers-laid-off-2025-1236644512/
Some members of the international games development community are staying away from the Game Developers Conference (GDC), set to take place in March, because of the political climate in the U.S. @Aftermath's Luke Plunkett spoke to nine past attendees about exactly why they've decided to give it a miss: Concerns for their personal safety, as well as a desire not to support anything taking place in the U.S.
#Technology #Tech #GDC #GameDevelopersConference #VideoGames #TrumpAdministration
Kevin L Ward in Georgia: Name: Kevin L Ward
State: Georgia
Agency: Gdc Special Operations https://copblaster.com/cop/28148/kevin-l-ward?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Georgia #LawEnforcement #PoliceAccountability #GDC #CriminalJustice
Deck Nine Takes Back GDC Award From Laid-Off Devs After Failing To Send Anyone To Accept It:
https://aftermath.site/gdc-awards-deck-nine-laid-off-developers-life-is-strange-double-exposure/
“I keep thinking about all of the opportunities that were denied to us because of our exclusion [...] All of us have [...] been laid off from Deck Nine, and most of us are still looking for jobs. I have been out of work for a year. Imagine what it could have done for our careers if we had been allowed to go on stage and speak?"
GDC×テーラー東洋のリバーシブルスカジャン、背中に“鳳凰＆富士山”の刺繍
https://www.fashion-press.net/news/142416?media=line
#fashionpress #ジーディーシー #GDC #東洋エンタープライズ #TOYO_ENTERPRISE #ファッション #アイテム #テーラー #モチーフ #ヴィンテージ #ジーディーシー_代官山 #GDC_DAIKANYAMA
Expedition 33 Leads 26th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards
https://fullcleared.com/news/expedition-33-leads-26th-annual-game-developers-choice-awards/
Let's hear it for this year's Indie Game Festival Finalists!
The #IWW #GDC as an antifascist organization was always kind of a hack. It was a beautiful hack and it worked well for what it did.
In 2016, as Trump was rising, I found info from the Twin Cities GDC. They were super organized, building an amazing community defense organization. When we (Seattle) went to set up our chapter, following their lead, they were extremely supportive. When I got shot, Twin Cities folks were at my house keeping my partner safe. They literally flew people out to support us. They very much remain in my mind when I think about what mutual aid looks like.
Unionism is an important strategy of a larger fight. But it's important to realize that it's not the other way around. The GDC was built to defend the union, because there wasn't something larger to do that work. It filled a gap.
When we organized against Trump, we tried to make the GDC the greater thing. We tried to make the GDC into the vehicle for social revolution against the fascist threat... And it sort of worked. We were able to do a lot.
But that was never what it was built to do. It was always built as an appendage of the IWW. This contains its own problem. If Unionism is the revolutionary movement, then it becomes impossible to build a truly revolutionary society. Unionism centers "workers" which implicitly decenters those who can't work in the traditional sense (the young, the elderly, those physically or mentally able to work). It also decenters care labor that hasn't yet been widely commodified. Sure, there are all types of hacks to patch the holes, but the fundamental construction starts from the wrong assumptions.
It felt, for a while, like things could go another way. Like that our ability to bring members in could shift things a bit, maybe set the GDC on more equal footing with the core focus of the IWW. But that was always an illusion, far less important to think about than the crushing terror of the regime we were fighting.
Now, I will absolutely trash talk the IWW on occasion but in the end I do think they're doing good and important work. Any criticism I have should be taken with a grain of salt... And I know I do have a lot of salt. Again, Unionism is an important strategy. It's useful both in improving immediate material conditions and as part of the most powerful weapon we have against the capitalist system: the general strike. It's important, I can't say that enough. But it's not sufficient.
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and I wonder if there are any other GDC organizers or former organizers who might be feeling the same. Feel free to DM me. I'd like to get some more perspectives and see if my understanding from several years ago deviates significantly from what other folks are feeling right now.
I'd also like to bounce some ideas around that come from my own organizing experience.
Our biggest jam yet starts January 19. Two weeks to build, $4,600 in prizes, including judge-selected GDC 2026 Festival Passes for the winning team.
Theme drops at 8am PST on the 19th. Join us:
https://itch.io/jam/bezi-jam
#bezijam #gamejam #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #gdc
Holy fucking SHIT. GDC is NOT worth more than half a thousand dollars for a pass. Plus, it super sounds like they are trying to make it PAX Lite, which is.... no. #gdc2026 #gdc #gamedevelopment
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