Game Developers Conference plans postponed SF gathering for Aug. 4-6
Update: As of 7:00pm Eastern on Friday, February 28, GDC has thrown in the towel. "After close consultation with our partners in the game development industry and community around the world," the organization writes in an update, "we've made the difficult decision to postpone the Game Developers Conference this March.
"We're genuinely upset and disappointed not to be able to host you at this time," the update continues, adding that the organization "fully intend[s] to host a GDC event later in the summer," about which it will provide more information in the coming weeks.
Registered participants with GDC 2020 passes will receive emails regarding next steps about receiving refunds, and participants who booked hotel reservations through the GDC hotel portal or in GDC room blocks will not have to pay penalties or fees associated with cancelling those reservations.
Much of the content from GDC, including many of the presentations that would have been given live as well as the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Choice Awards, will be either uploaded to the free section of the GDC Vault or made available livestreaming on Twitch, GDC added. Our original story on GDC's status as of Friday afternoon appears below.
[Update (March 17): The Game Developers Conference announced it's planning to hold a rescheduled "GDC Summer" event in San Francisco's Moscone Center from August 4 through August 6. The "three-day celebration of the art, craft and business of game development" will include a similar mix of technical talks, roundtables, and "fireside chats" as the usual annual GDC gathering, according to the announcement from organizer Informa Tech.
San Francisco continues to operate in a state of emergency, with residents in the area ordered to shelter in place while non-essential businesses have been ordered to stay closed for at least the next three weeks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Gatherings of 100 or more people in the city have been banned through the end of April.]
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