At this rate, not a single video game event will be held this year – Bethesda has joined the club.

„To all of our friends in the QuakeCon community: QuakeCon has always been a special event for us and you—a time when we gather together to play games and build bonds that, for some, have lasted a quarter-century now.

In recent weeks we have spent a lot of time discussing how we might still move forward with QuakeCon this year, particularly given that it’s the 25th year of the event. However, with all of the logistical challenges and uncertainties we currently face due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s QuakeCon. The health and safety of our employees, volunteers, vendors, sponsors, and players will always be our top priority, and in these times it felt wrong to be talking about a gathering when a gathering is the last thing any of us should be doing right now. While we don’t know what the state of the pandemic will be this August, we do know it will not be possible to complete the work and planning with partners, vendors, volunteers, and others that are required to make QuakeCon a success.

We thank all of you—especially the volunteers—for all your work in building and supporting this event year after year. We hope to work with you to come up with other ways to celebrate the spirit of QuakeCon this August, and we look forward to the return of this amazing event next year. Until then, be safe, look after each other, and play games. Peace, Love and Rockets,” Bethesda’s statement reads on Twitter.

QuakeCon would have been held between August 6 and 9 at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center. Perhaps they should try something online. Even Gamescom, the „European E3” is looking into it, and that’s also planned to be held in August in Cologne, Germany, and even if they are not in the upwards trend of the virus infections, they are more further in the spread than America is.

Source: Gematsu

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