GDC Festival of Gaming Archives

Organizers for the GDC Festival of Gaming have confirmed the finalists for the 26th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, taking place this March As you might suspect from some of the other award show announcements that have popped up this month, the usual gang of nominees are here from 2025 without too many surprises in[...]

We have the full list for you below, and you can check out more details in the schedule on their website. Credit: GDC GDC Festival of Gaming – 2026 Programming UGC Rendering/Graphics Modernizing the Rendering of Minecraft Speakers: A.J Fairfield (Principal Software Engineer, Mojang; Microsoft) Timing: Monday, March 9, 2026 at 10:30-11:30am Optimizing a Large, Time-Critical Problem: Occlusion Culling at Roblox Speakers: Earl Hammon (Principal[...]

Organizers for the GDC Festival of Gaming announced this morning that game creator Hideo Kojima will give the keynote speech for the event next March The keynote will be called "Restarting from Zero: A Message to Creators Considering Independence," as it will reflect on his departure from Konami and the efforts made to start Kojima[...]