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With GDC 2016 coming up fast, organizers are excited to announce another great behind-the-scenes talk that will be taking place at the conference in March.

Playful Corp design director Dan Hurd and engineer Evan Reidland will be delivering a cutting-edge talk on "Lucky's Tale: The Unexpected Delight of Third-Person Virtual Reality, a Technical Postmortem" as part of the inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference at GDC.

The talk, one of many that will be a part of the Game VR/AR track of VRDC talks at GDC 2016, will cover specific details about how the Lucky's Tale team tackled third-person camera design and movement, scale, level and game design in the pursuit of comfort, presence, and delight.

GDC 2016 organizers would like to give you a preview of the informative and intriguing sessions taking place during the two-day Game Design Workshop which will help kick off the conference next month.

This is just one of the many Bootcamps and Tutorials scheduled during the first two days of GDC (Monday and Tuesday, March 14th and 15th this year) and offer attendees the chance to study critical components of the game design craft.

GDC 2016 attendees are invited to attend the two-day workshop and take part in hands-on activities, group discussion, analysis and critique. Attendees will immerse themselves in the iterative process of refining a game design and discover design concepts that will help them think more clearly about their designs and make better games.

GDC 2016 is a month away, and today the GDC team is excited to highlight a talk from Bethesda Game Studios on the modular level design of Fallout 4 that will be taking place during the March conference.

But first, conference organizers would also like to gently remind that today is the last day to register early for GDC 2016 at a discounted rate! If you register to attend GDC 2016 after 11:59 PM Pacific today you'll pay full price, so if you're thinking about coming to GDC this year, register now!

GDC 2016 attendees will have the opportunity to attend a Design track talk from Bethesda Game Studios' Joel Burgess and Nathan Purkeypile on "Fallout 4's Modular Level Design" that promises to be intriguing and informative. 

Game Developers Conference 2016 is next month, and those interested in attending can register to do so at a discounted rate until this Wednesday, February 3rd 11:59 PM Pacific. After that you'll have to pay full price, so if you're thinking about coming to GDC this year, register now!

To give you a better idea of the sorts of in-depth game development talks taking place at this year's event, GDC organizers today highlight a handful of great sessions announced for the eight focused Summits that will take place Monday, March 14th and Tuesday, March 15th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA during the first two days of the conference.

During the Indie Game Summit, for example, Frictional Games' Thomas Grip will talk about what it was like to explore the finer points of conveying existential dread in "Soma - Crafting Existential Dread." 

With just days to go before early registration for Game Developers Conference 2016 ends on Wednesday, February 3rd 11:59 PM Pacific, conference organizers are encouraging anyone interested in attending to register now at a discounted rate.

This year, as in years past, GDC will feature a diverse lineup of lectures, panels, and tutorials during the show proper, and show organizers will continue to debut new sessions as the event draws ever closer. Today, organizers highlight a handful of the announced talks to shed light on the diverse array of topics that iwll be tackled during the show.

David Brevik, the veteran game developer best known for co-founding the studio that became Blizzard North, will be delivering a Classic Game Postmortem of the studio's groundbreaking game Diablo at GDC 2016.

Now that the 2016 Game Developers Conference is nearly here, organizers want to offer a quick heads-up about some of the great forward-thinking talks you can see at the GDC 2016 Community Management Summit.

For example, Blizzard Entertainment's Saralyn Smith is coming to the show to deliver a great talk on "Influencers: The Opportunity And Responsibility." 

From cosplayers (pictured) to YouTube content creators and Twitch personalities, the opportunities for players to wield influence over your brands expands every day -- so Smith will share lessons learned at Blizzard about how you can best support your greatest community champions while protecting your customers in accordance with FTC regulations.

The 2016 Game Developers Conference is coming up quick, and today organizers are happy to announce the details of the Day of the Devs and iam8bit interactive spaces you'll find at the March conference.

Spoiler: There's a photo opp involved.

Would you believe that the very first Game Developers Conference was conducted in a dumpy 80's living room? Well, it was - so believe it! And in the stubborn instance that you refute such a story, the magicians of nostalgic arts, iam8bit, will make you regret your pitiful attempt at instilling doubt. They'll do so by way of their most audacious GDC installation to date, putting all previous collaborations to embarrassing, tearful shame.