All the games on display would have been shown off at the Game Developer’s Conference but due to the event’s cancelation, an online festival should do the ol’ marketing trick.

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.

The Game Developers Conference, an annual gathering of game developers who cover the everything there is about making a video game in the modern age, won’t see team blue on the showfloor. Sony has been especially cautious in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak, cancelling an appearance at PAX East (Where new The Last of Us Part II gameplay was scheduled to be shown) and now confirming via Games Industry that they’ll be skipping GDC as well lest PlayStation system architect Mark Cerny’s amazingly soothing voice be at risk before he has a chance to show off the PS5.

Long story short, gaming next year is going to look and sound absolutely amazing.

A console dawn may be on the horizon, but without the software to play it on those fancy consoles might as well be very expensive bricks to get excited for. It’s a given that Sony and Microsoft will have a selection of games ready for day one, but it’s the rest of the gaming industry that’ll be relied upon to …

In a year which saw the biggest games honoured and showered in kudos, it’s easy to forget about the indie side of the gaming industry. Small in scope but gigantic in influence, indie games are the backbone of the medium and as Led Zeppelin, they deserve a whole lotta love. The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is one such way to honour the best of the best in the independent games sphere, and they’re doing just that with the 22nd annual IGF Awards on March 18 at the 2020 Game Developers Conference.

We put a man on the moon fifty years ago, so surely our best and brightest minds can come together to solve humanity’s greatest problem next to the impending hellstorm the planet is about to become in a few years: Playing video games without needing to drop all the dimes on fancy console or PC hardware. Google reckons that they’ve got the problem licked.

Google has been investing an ungodly amount of cash into gaming, and it looks like a reveal is finally on the way for the next phase of Project Stream.