Microsoft has decided to sit out this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2020.
It announced on its blog:
After a close review of guidance by global health authorities and out of an abundance of caution, we’ve made the difficult decision to withdraw from participating at Game Developers Conference 2020 in San Francisco. The health and safety of players, developers, employees, and our partners around the world is our top priority. Especially as the world is experiencing growing public health risks associated with coronavirus (COVID-19).
In light of this, it added it planned to “move its presence to a digital-only event March 16-18th held on www.microsoft.com/gamestack.
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