Game Developer Conference 2020 postponed due to health concerns over Coronavirus outbreak

The Game Developer Conference has been postponed due to health concerns over the Coronavirus outbreak. Over the recent week, companies have dropped out from attending the conference and three weeks before the event was supposed to take place, it has now been postponed to an unspecified date. The event itself has not been cancelled but will be shifted to “later in the summer”. 

A statement on the GDC website says, "After close consultation with our partners in the game development industry and community around the world, we’ve made the difficult decision to postpone the Game Developers Conference this March,". The show was scheduled for March 16 but companies such as Sony, Microsoft, EA, Epic, Unity, Activision Blizzard, and many more pulled out due to fears of the Cornovirus outbreak. Developers also skipped out on attending PAX East 2020 but that event is still taking place over this weekend. 

This does not come as a surprise as the Coronavirus outbreak has also caused the cancellation of MWC earlier this year. Because of the severity of the outbreak, major events and smashed other global conferences have seen massive dropouts or outright cancellations. Who knows when this epidemic will subside but for now, it all seems up in the air. 

 

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