While the rest of the year’s biggest gaming conventions have all but closed their doors, Gamescom is looking at marching ahead, undeterred by the coronavirus.

Thanks to the Coronavirus, Wrestlemania 36 will instead be broadcast from the WWE Performance Center. With nary a butt in a seat to be seen in recent Smackdown and RAW episodes that followed this approach, it’s going to be a weird one folks.

E3 is dead. Industry pundits reckon that this year’s version of the show may be called off, due to a knockout combination of the current Coronavirus pandemic and developers pulling out en masse.

Developer ArtPlay confirmed that despite the game reaching the $5 million stretch goal, the rougelike mode for the game has been binned.

While GDC 2020 isn’t being cancelled, it won’t be taking place for a good while until the Coronavirus is under control and companies feel safe enough to send their employees outside to talk shop.

I’ve always wondered: Now that Disney owns 20th Century Fox, does that make Ellen Ripley an official Disney princess? The science adds up what with her being a host to a Xenomorph queen embroyo in Alien 3, so it has to be true. SCIENCE. Anyway, when the house of mouse finalised a deal to absorb all of Fox’s prime time entertainment into its colossal empire, a few casualties were bound to happen.

This year’s E3 is going to be a shadow of its former self, but another great big expo is going away completely in 2020. The writing was on the wall for Mobile World Congress 2020, but now the host organisation, GSMA has made it official. Originally scheduled to run from 24-28 February, MWC 2020 has been cancelled. “The GSMA has …

Cliff Bleszinski’s now pining for the Fjords studio Boss Key Productions had a neat idea for a first-person shooter set in the Alien universe, but that plan got derailed when the House of Mouse rolled into town and bought 20th Century FOX.