GDC’s Rescheduled Summer Live Show Goes ‘Fully Digital’

The Game Developers Conference Summer is still accept billet August 4th through 6th , but will now be entirely online , organizers announced ina statement Thursday . When GDC had to interdict its live show at the last minute in March , organizer initially planned for a rescheduled in - person event this summertime , no doubt hoping that the novel coronavirus pandemic would have barricade putting the brakes on everything by then ( to be fair , I retrieve we all were ) .

“ As so many game developer embrace remote work arrangement and online collaborationism , we ’re inspired to accommodate and extradite GDC in a digital formatting that will be available to everyone with an net connection , and will work hard to deliver the gamy - quality content and networking opportunities GDC attendees have come to gestate , ” the announcement say .

GDC 2019 drew29,000 industry professionalsand more than 550 exhibitors to San Francisco , a record - breaking crowd in the unrecorded show ’s more than 30 - year history . This class will mark another , more somber hallmark : the first clip GDC forgoes a strong-arm conference entirely . It ’s the latest in a string of postponements , rejiggerings , or outright cancellations among tech and gaming diligence effect this yr , includingGoogle I / O , the Electronic Entertainment Expo , and theMobile World Congress .

Last year’s conference drew 29,000 video game industry professionals to San Francisco.