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Tokyo Game Show 2020 to be replaced with online event

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The current year’s Tokyo Game Show has been officially dropped due to the coronavirus pandemic. It unquestionably doesn’t come as an amazement, seeing as Game Developers Conference and other large gaming and tech occasions for 2020 must be scrapped with an end goal to forestall the spread of COVID-19. Social distancing at immense gatherings of the sort would be unthinkable, all things considered, particularly since going to TGS’ regular setting (Makuhari Messe) as a rule implies taking Tokyo’s stuffed trains.

“Due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on a global scale and the situation remains unpredictable in Japan as well, the organizer and the co-organizers have reached this decision after a long consideration to place the utmost priority on the health and safety of visitors, exhibitors and stakeholders. We ask for your kind understanding and cooperation,” the organizers said in a statement.

Like other dropped occasions for the year, the in-person TGS meeting will be supplanted by an all-digital issue. It’s not so much clear in the event that it will, in any case, occur from September 24th through the 27th, however, the coordinators said they’re arranging an online other option and will discharge more subtleties in the not so distant future.

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