San Diego Comic-Con Announces Virtual Event & # 39; Comic Con @ Home & # 39; - News

The organizers of the San Diego Comic-Con Convention (SDCC) announced the "[email protected]Friday, the event will take place this summer.

The organizers canceled This year's event due to the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation. This year's event was originally scheduled for July 23-26 at the San Diego Convention Center. Customers who have purchased badges for Comic-Con 2020 will have the option to request a refund or transfer their badges to next year's event, which will take place from July 22-25, 2021.

After this year's Anime Expo convention scheduled for July 2-5 in Los Angeles, it was canceled, Funimation announced who will hold the Funimation With the 2020 virtual anime convention from 3-4 July.

Also the virtual convention of Anime Lockdown Ran from 1 to 3 May. The event included industry panels, guests, including voice actors and a variety of other anime-related shows.

Likewise, after E3 2020 it was canceled, Geoff Keighly, producer and creator of The Game Awards, has announced that he is involved in a new digital event called "Summer Game Fest". The seasonal event will run from May to August and will include "news, in-game events and playable content from across the gaming industry". The organizers of the Gamescom event scheduled for August 25-29 in Germany announced in April that the physical event was canceledbut the organizers have fixed that the event "will certainly take place digitally".

Tokyo Game Show organizers announced on Friday they canceled this year's event scheduled for September, but the "now scheduled to take place online" event.

Sources: SDCC Twitter tale, deadline (Bruce Haring)