The Latest Breaking News from GDC 2026

Delisted Xbox 360 games briefly reappear on the Xbox Store — Microsoft prepares backward compatibility revival

This follows Xbox Vice President Jason Ronald's commitment at GDC 2026 in March to revive the company's backward compatibility program.

Tom’s Hardware · Apr 5

Major investor is 'shocked and sad' that the games industry is 'demonizing' generative AI

At GDC 2026, the rift between big tech and creative workers was easy to see.

PC Gamer · Mar 14

Nvidia claims 1 million times better path tracing performance is coming in future gaming GPUs — says current GPUs are already 10,000x faster than Pascal

At GDC 2026, Nvidia held a presentation somehow aimed at gamers and not data center clients. Still, it was sprinkled with AI pat-on-the-backs, with the company touting that its future gaming GPUs will offer 1,000,000 better path tracing performance. And the current-gen Blackwell family is apparently already 100,000x better due…

Tom’s Hardware · Mar 13

From GTA 6 to the rise of AI, here are the biggest trends to watch out for at GDC 2026

GDC is where industry leaders gather to discuss the future of gaming – these are the five talking points we expect them to discuss in 2026

GamesRadar · Mar 4