Many studios have been withdrawing over the past few days from GDC 2020 due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic that has infected over 80,000 people so far.

Yesterday, we saw Microsoft, Unity and Epic Games all withdraw from the event, in addition to Amazon and Activision-Blizzard who pulled out this morning.

GDC’s organizers announced the annual conference was postponed to later this summer in a statement on their 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.

The Game Developers Conference is one of the biggest gaming conferences in the world. Last year, it had its highest attendance of 29,000 people.

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