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GDC 2020 may be postponed as an event, but organizers have decided they will continue to run some of the plans strictly online.

So in the wake of GDC 2020 being canceled, something many of us don't see is the financial aftermath that takes place on indie developers.

This afternoon, after several cancelations and pullouts, GDC 2020 has officially been postponed and will not take place this March.

Microsoft has become the latest company to announce they've pulled out of GDC 2020 over concerns regarding the coronavirus.

The latest company to pull out of GDC 2020 this week is Electronic Arts as they've cited the coronavirus as their main reason.

Continuing the trend of companies bailing from conventions due to the coronavirus, Kojima Productions has pulled out of GDC 2020.

Joining the growing list of companies pulling out of events due to the coronavirus, Facebook has decided to skip GDC 2020 this year.

Sony has decided to pull out of two more conventions in 2020, but this time due to concerns over the Coronavirus, as they skip GDC and PAX East.

Another set of awards announced for GDC 2020 week as the Game Developers Choice Awards released their list of finalists.

Earlier today, the Independent Games Festival (IGF) revealed the finalists for the 22nd Annual Independent Games Festival happening during GDC 2020.

GDC and PAX East this year hosted a Brazil Games Showcase, which brought some of the best indie games from Brazil to the states.

Red Blue Games’ Sparklite is a brawler-adventure with procedural world generation, but its classic influences are pretty obvious even at first glance.

Merge Games’ and Blackstaff Games’ Buildings Have Feelings Too is a real-time city builder with a twist- the buildings all have thoughts and feelings.

Rebellion’s remaster of Sniper Elite 2 was playable at GDC last month to show off the new graphics, rendering technology, and updated X-ray kill cam.

Operencia: The Stolen Sun is Zen Studios’  homage to classic first-person dungeon-crawlers, and is based on several Central European folktales. An

Novaquark's Dual Universe is a continuous single-shard sandbox MMORPG, meaning that players share an absolutely massive world of potentially millions of

Paranoid Productions' The Church in the Darkness is a stealth infiltration game with a side of mystery and human psychology

Iceberg Interactive and Shifting Tides’ The Sojourn is a gorgeously atmospheric puzzle game that is reminiscent of Portal, but with statues.

Afterparty is the new game by Night School Studio, which makes it an indie game to watch. After all, Night School is the studio behind Oxenfree.

SkyBox Labs’ Stela is described as acinematic, atmospheric platformer which centers around a you g woman who witnesses the final days of a mysterious

Petroglyph and Funcom's survival RTS Conan Unconquered is many things, but while you might expect it to be absurd, it’s far more straightforward.

Tribe Games’ HyperDot is described as a “strikingly minimal action arcade dodge ‘em up,” which mostly translates to frantic flailing with dots. That said,

Family Man is a first-person narrative RPG about the moral descent of a father who owes money to the mob. The game's being developed by Broken Bear Games

Dead End Job combined the chaotic gameplay of a procedurally generated twin-stick shooter with graphics reminiscent of 90s cartoon Ren and Stimpy. Players

Headup Games was at GDC this year to show offthe first-person horror game Silver Chains, which, like many games in the genre, has a strong emphasis on

11 Bit Studios announced at GDC that their upcoming RPG Children of Morta, will now launch on all platforms simultaneously this summer.

Australian developer Grinning Pickle’s gorgeous puzzler Totem Teller is the sort of game that helps solidify the genre as an art form.  The game’s visual

This War of Mine: Stories is a more story-based spinoff of 11 bit studios' survival game This War of Mine. Stories focuses much more on the narrative of

Modern Storyteller's The Forgotten City started as a popular mod for Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. And as developer Nick Pearce joked during the

Spike Chunsoft has unveiled the pre-order bonuses for Zanki Zero: The Last Beginning at GDC this morning.