Amazon is the latest to ditch GDC this year

GDC's top sponsors continue to pull out of attending the San Francisco gaming conference. Today, Amazon announced it would no longer be sending employees to the event.

In an update, the team shared that they would instead be hosting a "global online event" to share news that they had been planning to detail at the conference.

Amazon Game Tech is a "diamond partner" at the Game Developers Conference this year, a designation that signifies sponsors "who play an integral role in the success of GDC," the conference says on its website. At this point, the only diamond partners who have not officially withdrawn are Intel, Nvidia and Google.

Facebook, Sony, Microsoft, Unity and Epic Games have all pulled out of the conference over concerns surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak. Now, Amazon joins them.

TechCrunch has reached out to the other remaining sponsors at the event.

As pointed out by @beccahallstedt, the red companies have officially pulled out.

Wouldn't be surprised if Google, Amazon, Intel, and Nvidia also pull out. pic.twitter.com/C81LomyM0L

- Xavier GDC (@XCK3D) February 27, 2020