Get some insight into Microsoft's game development when they stream their GDC talks next week

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Get some insight into Microsoft’s game development when they stream their GDC talks next weekAfter the conference’s postponement over coronavirus concerns

After the conference’s postponement over coronavirus concerns

GDC may be cancelled for now, but that isn’t stopping Microsoft from releasing all the talks they had planned for the event. On March 17th and 18th they’ll be streaming all the sessions they had ready for the Game Developers Conference over on Mixer, meaning those who wouldn’t have made it their in the first place will be able to listen in, too.

The developer-focused sessions include a bunch of talks on accessibility in games (likeGears 5), some info on Project xCloud, and there’s even a talk from Rare about Sea Of Thieves (which, naturally, I’m unreasonably excited about).

All of Microsoft’s talks will be streamed on Mixer starting from 10am PT (5pm GMT) on March 17th, with more following on the 18th. You can check out the full schedule ontheir blog.

They’ve been planning to show panels like this sincethey dropped out of this year’s GDC due to coronavirus worries. Unity seem to have something in the worksto make their presentations available online, too.

Microsoft mentioned ina previous postthat all this would be “streamed live and available on demand”, so even if you miss the live stuff you should still be able to catch up with everything you want to hear.

GDC’s organisers are looking to sort out a GDC event for “later this summer”, and they also plan to“make many of the presentations that would have been given at GDC 2020 available for free online”. They haven’t released any details yet of when either of these things will be, but we’ll keep you up to date when we know more.