The year's biggest video game development trade show just got 'postponed' due to concerns over the ongoing coronavirus outbreak
For the first time in over 30 years, the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California is "postponed" until this summer due to the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. A new date was not announced.
Several major companies pulled out of the conference ahead of the announcement: Sony's PlayStation group, Facebook, Microsoft's Xbox group, "Fortnite" maker Epic Games, and Unity. "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 Nearly 30,000 people attended GDC 2019, and conference exhibitors are still planning to offer some of their GDC 2020 programming online.
COVID-19 has infected more than 78,000 people in China and infections have spread to at least 40 countries. On Tuesday,
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