Organizers looking to Summer as an option
It’s been a wild week And a half for the games industry. Dominos started to fall when Sony pulled out of PAX East, and that’s carried fully into GDC. The conference’s organizers have announced that due to COVID-19 (Coronavirus) precautions, and the majority of its largest partners pulling out, it has opted to postpone the event to later in the Summer. A new date will be announced in the coming weeks as the illness is monitored and contained.
Here’s the official line from GDC:
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.
Having spent the past year preparing for the show with our advisory boards, speakers, exhibitors, and event partners, we’re genuinely upset and disappointed not to be able to host you at this time.
We want to thank all our customers and partners for their support, open discussions and encouragement. As everyone has been reminding us, great things happen when the community comes together and connects at GDC. For this reason, we fully intend to host a GDC event later in the summer. We will be working with our partners to finalize the details and will share more information about our plans in the coming weeks.
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