My throat is sore. I blame GDC.

And I’m probably not the only one.

Some of the other members of the Multiplayer team are fighting GDC sickness too. We’re talking fever, flu-like symptoms.

Word is that 17,500 people attended GDC this year. The person who told me? He’s out sick.

Funny enough, Kotaku’s Mark Wilson and I were sitting together in a meeting area at GDC last week and overheard two attendees saying some… colorful… stuff. I started jotting some it down:

Guy #1: Half the time I ever got sick in the last 10 years was at GDC.

Guy #2: Yeah it’s all those people from around the world with all their germs and their handshaking and s–t.

Mark and I laughed last week, but now? Tell us… who else among you went to GDC healthy and came home sick?