{"id":112657,"date":"2020-05-08T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/tokyo_game_show_2020_officially_cancelled_will_be_replaced_by_an_online_event"},"modified":"2020-05-08T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T04:30:00","slug":"tokyo-game-show-2020-officially-cancelled-will-be-replaced-by-an-online-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/08\/tokyo-game-show-2020-officially-cancelled-will-be-replaced-by-an-online-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Game Show 2020 Officially Cancelled, Will Be Replaced By An Online Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93ac0da5267ea\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93ac0da5267ea\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\" readability=\"8.1939393939394\">\n<section class=\"title\" readability=\"0.41860465116279\">\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Another one bites the dust<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/79507\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Liam_Doolan\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Liam_Doolan\">Liam Doolan<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <time class=\"date age \" datetime=\"2020-05-08T04:30:00+00:00\"><span>19 hours ago<\/span><\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\" readability=\"38.925192519252\">\n<section class=\"text\" readability=\"43.674971031286\">\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Tokyo Game Show 2020\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93ac0da5267ea\/tokyo-game-show-2020.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93ac0da5267ea\/tokyo-game-show-2020.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Tokyo Game Show 2020\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s official, like every other video game convention before it, this year&#8217;s Tokyo Game Show has been cancelled to help stop the spread of COVID-19. The show, which was scheduled to take place between 24th &#8211; 27th September, will now be replaced by an online event.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the official statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More details about the new online format will be shared on the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/expo.nikkeibp.co.jp\/tgs\/2020\/en\/\">official website<\/a> and via a press release later this month. Other recent cancellations include EVO 2020, Gamescom 2020, and this year&#8217;s E3.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/expo.nikkeibp.co.jp\/tgs\/2020\/pdf\/tgs_release_en_20200508.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/expo.nikkeibp.co.jp\/tgs\/2020\/pdf\/tgs_release_en_20200508.pdf\">expo.nikkeibp.co.jp<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2020\/05\/tokyo-game-show-2020-physical-event-cancelled-due-to-coronavirus-concerns-digital-event-planned\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2020\/05\/tokyo-game-show-2020-physical-event-cancelled-due-to-coronavirus-concerns-digital-event-planned\">gematsu.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/related-info\/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e @ 2020-05-08T23:48:50+01:00 --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another one bites the dust by Liam Doolan 19 hours ago It&#8217;s official, like every other video game convention before it, this year&#8217;s Tokyo Game Show has been cancelled to help stop the spread of COVID-19. The show, which was scheduled to take place between 24th &#8211; 27th September, will now be replaced by an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}