The organizers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) have published the results of their traditional developer survey: this time, 2,300 participants took part. We’ve selected some interesting highlights from the report.

More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2026/01/30/gdc-more-and-more-developers-view-generative-ai-as-harmful-to-the-gaming-industry

Many members of the international games industry are skipping the 2026 Game Developers Conference because of the growing ICE presence and other concerns.

With the Game Developers Conference a few months away, organizers have revealed the finalists for the 2026 Independent Games Festival Awards.

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The median salary is lower—$129,000.

More details: https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/11/17/gdc-60-of-game-developers-in-the-us-reported-an-increase-in-salaries-with-an-average-pay-of-142000-a-year

The war of attrition that is seeing c-suite and games industry leaders continue to pour AI into games and tech in spite of repeated pushback by developers and gamers continues. Today we’ve got a trio of stories from three different companies that are in different stages of AI brainworm infection because this stuff needs to […]