Game Developers Conference Has Been ‘Postponed’

Following the exit of several major exhibitors, the organisers of the Game Developers Conference said Friday that the show, originally scheduled to take place from March 16 to 20 in San Francisco, will be postponed until later this winter due to concerns over the spread of coronavirus.

“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’s official statement said. “We fully intend to host a GDC event later in the [American] summer. We will be working with our partners to finalise the details and will share more information about our plans in the coming weeks.”

GDC said that conference attendees would be refunded in full for their tickets, and that anyone who booked a hotel in a GDC room block would be able to cancel without penalty.

GDC is one of the video game industry’s longest-running annual shows, having begun in 1988. An annual conference for video game developers to network and share ideas, GDC has since grown into one of the industry’s most important venues for presentations by both AAA and independent studios. GDC 2020 featured a massive list of panels on every conceivable subject related to video game design and production, with talks from Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Epic, and practically every other major video game firm.

The massive exodus of exhibitors from GDC 2020 started last week, when Sony and Facebook, which produces the Oculus VR headsets, Unity. Several media outlets also announced that they would not be attending the show.

GDC is the latest of many events to shut down over coronavirus concerns. Both the Mobile World Congress and EVE Fanfest have cancelled in the last week, as well as several esports events and venues.


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