GDC 2020 Postponed After Major Companies Withdraw

In the last several weeks many key publishers and developers confirmed they would not be attending GDC 2020. The primary reason being the coronavirus. Now, the convention has been officially postponed. 

The news comes from the official GDC website:

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.

Sony, Facebook, Microsoft, Iron Galaxy, and many others dropped out from the convention. It's unclear if the same thing will happen to E3. As of now, no companies have dropped out of the convention because of the virus.

Adam Siddiqui,
Senior Editor, NoobFeed
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