September’s Tokyo Game Show 2022 Event Has Been Cancelled Due to COVID-19; Digital Event Planned Instead

Tokyo Game Show 2020 has been canceled due to fears over COVID-19 but a digital event is being planned instead.

The Computer Entertainment Supplier'due south Association (CESA) announced the cancellation in an official press release today. The event, which was scheduled to run from September 24 to September 27, is now planned to take identify online.

"Due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on a global scale and the situation remains unpredictable in Japan also, the organizer and the co-organizers have reached this decision subsequently a long consideration to place the utmost priority on the health and safe of visitors, exhibitors and stakeholders", the press release from CESA reads.

More information near the planned digital TGS 2020 outcome will be announced on through press releases and via the official Tokyo Game Show website later this month.

Most recently, October'due south Paris Games Week was also canceled due to COVID-xix. Last month, it was announced that this year's Gamescom event won't be taking place either. The system is working on a digital Gamescom event as nosotros speak. "We are, however, already working at full speed on a digital Gamescom", the Gamescom team wrote last month. It is, after all, the world's biggest outcome for games, and that's what it should be again this twelvemonth. You can already look forward to how we will celebrate the best games and Gamescom together with y'all and millions of gamers worldwide at the cease of August, fifty-fifty if it will but be digital and not on location this time. Because one affair is certain: this year, besides, Gamescom is and will remain "the Heart of Gaming"!"

Since the outbreak of the pandemic earlier this twelvemonth, all physical gaming events have been canceled. One exception is the PAX Due west issue, which is withal scheduled to take identify this September in Seattle.