Bad news accumulates for the Game Developers Conference 2020, video game fair that is planned for its celebration from March 16 to 20 in San Francisco, California. After what Sony and Oculus were the first companies to cancel their assistance by the spread of the coronavirus, Kojima Productions, developer of Death Stranding, did the same just a few days ago, despite the different talks he had confirmed and the rumors about a possible DLC for his video game.
As it picks up Gamingbolt, in the last hours it has been announced that the new casualties, which add to that of Electronic Arts, they're coming from Microsoft and Epic Games. The Redmond have wanted to explain that they want to «exercise great caution in the health and safety of players, developers, employees and partners worldwide as a top priority" Given the "Worldwide, there are increasing public health risks associated with the coronavirus.«. However, Microsoft plans to move its plans to a digital event which will be broadcast live and will host most of its sessions, as well as panels planned for the GDC.
For its part, Epic games explained in a brief statement that the reason for its cancellation is due to the «uncertainty around health concerns«, As can be seen in the Unreal Engine social networks:
Here at Epic we were excited about participating in GDC 2020. Regrettably, uncertainty around health concerns has made it unviable to send our employees, and so we have made the difficult decision to withdraw attendance.
Stay tuned for Epic news and more through other channels.
– Unreal Engine (@UnrealEngine) February 27, 2020
At the moment, the organizer of the GDC has not announced a cancellation or postponement of the fair, although she has mentioned that will carry out special hygiene measures With all your assistants.
