Gaming🎮 Unlike The Game Awards, the GDC Awards didn’t shy away from industry layoffs and the situation in Gaza

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The GDCAs were hosted last night during GDC 2024. While various awards were given out and developers celebrated as expected, the stage also was used by winners to shine a spotlight on a variety of important ongoing issues. This includes the current state of the video game industry and the huge waves of layoffs we've seen, as well as the ongoing war in Gaza.

This includes (but is absolutely not limited to) the devs behind Mediterranea Inferno, who stated that publishers and platform owners have an obligation to make sure developers "not just survive, but thrive", the Anthology of the Killer team writing "f*ck the IDF and free Palestine" in their acceptance video, and host Alanah Pearce tackling layoffs as part of her opening monologue.

"People who normally attend GDC every year have had to cancel because coming here is sort of an extravagant luxury when you don't know when your next paycheque is coming," said Pearce.

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