GDC 2022 Postponed to Summer Due to Coronavirus

Organizers of the Game Developers Briefing (GDC) 2020 have officially postponed the event citing the outbreak of coronavirus. The upshot will be held onetime this summertime. GDC 2020 was originally scheduled from the 16th to the 20th of March in San Francisco, California.

"After close consultation with our partners in the game evolution industry and community around the world, we've made the difficult conclusion to postpone the Game Developers Briefing this March.", reads the official web log post.

The verbal schedule for the event has not been finalized simply nonetheless. "We volition be working with our partners to finalize the details and will share more information most our plans in the coming weeks."

The decision to postpone GDC 2020 doesn't really come equally a surprise as major tech companies including Facebook, Sony, Microsoft, and Unity were withdrawing their presence from the event one by 1 over the past couple of weeks.

GDC organizers volition be issuing a full refund for all the registered attendees, including hotel reservations booked through GDC's hotel website or room cake. The presentations that were planned for GDC 2020 will exist optionally made bachelor on GDC'southward YouTube channel and the free section of GDC Vault.

With this postponement, GDC 2020 joins the listing of tech events affected by coronavirus. The chain started when MWC 2020 got canceled, followed by Facebook's F8 Developer Conference. Google has already announced that it will be holding a digital event for its Google for Games announcements that were scheduled for GDC 2020.

At present that GDC 2020 is off the chart, all the optics are on Google'southward annual developer briefing Google I/O 2020 that is scheduled to be held from May 12 to May fourteen. As of at present, the briefing is expected to take place equally per the programme.