Unity CEO John Riccitiello has introduced the corporate will now not be making an look at this yr’s Game Developers Conference.
Riccitiello made the announcement right this moment in a blog post, confirming that rising issues over the coronavirus had been accountable for the choice.
“Unfortunately, this year, after much thought and deliberation, we have made the difficult decision to pull out of GDC 2020,” he writes. “While we didn’t make this determination evenly, the present circumstances with COVID-19 (also called Novel Coronavirus) current an excessive amount of danger. We take our workers’ wellbeing very severely. We don’t need any Unity worker or associate to compromise their well being and security unnecessarily.
“We’re advising all employees to refrain from traveling to GDC. We will no longer have a physical presence with a booth, but will instead showcase the great GDC content we’ve been working towards online. Expect more details in the coming weeks.”
The game engine developer is the newest firm to drag out of GDC 2020 over rising issues over the coronavirus. It was solely final week that EA confirmed it will be dropping out of this yr’s GDC in San Francisco, citing issues over latest discoveries of coronavirus circumstances. In addition, Sony, Oculus and Kojima Productions all lately confirmed they won’t be attending this yr’s occasion.
The coronavirus outbreak has thus far induced the cancellation of The Taipei Game Show, initially scheduled for February, and managed to disrupt manufacturing operations in China. The toll of that is predicted to hit Nintendo’s Switch supply as early as April.
GDC 2020 will proceed as deliberate, happening subsequent month from March 16-20.
