Hideo Kojima is Giving up GDC 2020 Because of Coronavirus
Kojima Productions will not appear at GDC 2020. Hideo Kojima's team decided not to participate in the event due to the threat of coronavirus, thus taking the example from Sony.
The coronavirus does not spare anyone - especially the organizers of all kinds of events like latest work. Unfortunately, the participants of the conference will have to do without.
The Japanese developer is not the only party that was scared away by the recent development of the new coronavirus epidemic, including the discovery of a new outbreak in Italy. Earlier, Facebook and E3 2020. Compared to this, the absence of a single studio seems to be only a small thing, although many will certainly be strongly disappointed with Kojima's decision. The question is, will this be an isolated case, or will this year's edition of GDC be another event that will be influenced by coronavirus?
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