Game Developers Conference organiser, Think Services, has announced that last week’s GDC held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco saw attendance numbers in excess of 17 000 game industry professionals. Event director Meggan Scavio said:

“The success of this past week in San Francisco proves the resilience of the games industry.

“It is a testament to the spirit of our more than 20 year old conference and community, and evidence of video games’ continued evolution into a mainstream form of entertainment, that the various constituents of the industry were able come together at GDC as they did [last] year.”

Attendance figures for 2009’s GDC were slightly down from 2008’s numbers, but managed to exceed those of 2007’s event.

Also announced were the dates for GDC 2010, taking place from Tuesday, March 9 to Saturday, March 13, 2010, changing from the event’s usual ‘Monday through Friday’ schedule, which Scavio explains is as a result of a booking-related issue.

Source: Gamasutra