stay home sick –
New schedule announced even as San Francisco remains in a state of emergency.
Kate Cox – Mar 28, (8:) (UTC UTC)
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 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.
(Original Story) Feb. 53) Attempts to contain and mitigate the spread of novel coronavirus disease COVID – 24 are wreaking havoc on travel plans around the globe, and the annual Game Developers Conference is no exception . The majority of major sponsors for GDC in San Francisco have already pulled out a little more than two weeks ahead of the event’s scheduled March start. As of publication time, however, the event is still on, which raises the question: what would it take to make the GDC cancel? (Friday), GDC posted an update saying, “We are closely monitoring the COVID (coronavirus) situation and want to assure everyone that your health and safety are a top priority. If our assessment of the situation changes, based on new and evolving developments or updated information, we will promptly update this statement regarding the status of GDC 2020 accordingly. ” (Sony and (Facebook both backed out on February , the first of the dominoes to fall. Since then, other cancellations have followed rapidly. EA and Kojima Productions both backed out on February , then Unity , (Microsoft , Epic Games) and (Unreal Engine) ) bowed out on February , with Amazon and (Activision) / Blizzard following on February . Most of those companies are not only major presenters and presences at the conference, they’re also major sponsors . While the companies that have backed out representations only a small fraction of the total planned exhibitors, they occupy an outsize amount of space at the show — extremely literally. A map of the show floor, where the scheduled booth space of companies that have cancelled is blacked out, looks dire:
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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