GDC '07 to take the place of E3

With the demise of E3's status of largest video game exposition some other conference had to fill the gravitational void to suck in all those loaded gamers who needed the excitement. We now have word on which conference decided to pony up and take the reigns though it was not the one I was expecting.

GDC (Game Developers Conference) is heading into its 20th year as a primary meeting place for developers to discuss the current trends of the industry and all sorts of other workshops. This is basically what E3 used to be. Now they are claiming to be doubling their size to accomodate the E3 crowd as well.

"While it remains our primary goal to serve the game development community and ensure that the session-based half of GDC remains unchanged, we also believe it is time to dramatically upgrade the range of expo opportunities" said Jamil Moledina, executive director of the GDC.

Now, perhaps I'm just jaded and want this to fail, or maybe I just believe in the cyclic nature of time in that it repeats itself, but I'm guessing this is going to be the death of GDC as it becomes overbloated just like the prior iterations of E3 were.

I will laugh however if E3 becomes the new GDC (a respected conference within the industry for panels and discourse between companies) and GDC in turn will become the crowd opiate as the salivating gamer generation blows their hard earned money for a chance to see what's exciting and new.

Hopefully I'm wrong, but I highly doubt it.

Game industry article here

\\drew