GDC 2025 Postmortem: Engine, Development Tool, and AI-Related Highlights

This IDC Market Note assesses some of the key video game engine, development tool, and AI-related news that was made or highlighted at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), which wrapped up in San Francisco on March 21."The engine-related news at GDC was incremental compared to the step function improvement that many AI-related tools exhibited at the show, although there's also an increasing overlap and convergence between these two product/service sets." - Lewis Ward, research director, XR, Gaming, and Interactive 3D Software, IDC