Kojima Productions has announced that they will be skipping GDC 2020 due to coronavirus concerns. This is the 3rd company in a row to pull out of GDC 2020, following Sony and Facebook/Oculus. Here’s the official statement courtesy of Gematsu:
“Kojima Productions has made the difficult decision to cancel our participation at the 2020 Game Developers Conference due to increasing concerns related to novel coronavirus. Although much-anticipated, unfortunately this cancellation also includes Hideo Kojima’s session on the 19th and Eric Johnson’s session on the 16th.”
GDC 2020 runs from March 16th to the 20th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Stay tuned at Final Weapon for the latest Japanese gaming news!