Summary: <p>Yes, yes, we know GDC was cancelled, but your nice hosts still had plenty of stuff to talk about, including how GDC itself adapted itself into a non-event, how some business still got done, and next-gen hardware news from Microsoft and Sony that was too big to be rescheduled.</p> <ul> <li> <p>As part of an industry-wide effort to give people something to do while they're stuck inside, Mark gathered a few Twin Cities indiedevs to sell a bundle of their recent titles at a deep discount. It's the <a href="https://itch.io/b/467/twin-cities-indies-say-stay-inside-bundle">Twin Cities Indies Say Stay Inside Bundle</a>! It includes 5 full games (<em>Adjacency</em>, <em>Joggernauts</em>, <em>Newt One</em>, <em>Verdant Skies</em>, and <em>Widget Satchel</em>), and it's available on Itch for the next two weeks at 84% off the normal price. Stay home and enjoy!</p> </li> <li> <p>Mark joked that the Summer Olympics would be the next thing to be postponed, and sure enough, a day after we recorded this episode, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tokyo-2020-olympics-postponed-over-coronavirus-concerns-n1165046">they were</a>.</p> </li> </ul> The GDC That Wasn't 0:12:40 <a href="/topics/events" hreflang="en">Events</a> <a href="/topics/irl" hreflang="en">IRL</a> <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/gdc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GDC on Twitch</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GDC's channel on Youtube</a> - <a href="/author/gdc" hreflang="en">GDC</a>, <a href="/publication/youtube" hreflang="en">YouTube</a> <a href="https://www.gdconf.com/gdc-summer-2020" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GDC Summer is (currently) planned for August 4th-6th</a> <a href="https://igf.com/finalists-and-winners" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IGF Awards 2020: Finalists and winners</a> <a href="https://www.shacknews.com/article/117017/the-igf-game-developers-choice-awards-2020-winners-and-finalists" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GDCA 2020: Finalists and winners</a> Next-Gen Console Reveals 0:39:52 <a href="/topics/events" hreflang="en">Events</a> <a href="/topics/hardware" hreflang="en">Hardware</a> <a href="https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/03/16/xbox-series-x-tech/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xbox Series X: A Closer Look at the Technology Powering the Next Generation</a> - <a href="/author/will-tuttle" hreflang="en">Will Tuttle</a>, <a href="/publication/xbox-wire" hreflang="en">Xbox Wire</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8LyNIT9sg&feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Road to PS5: A talk by PS5 lead system architect Mark Cerny</a> - <a href="/author/playstation" hreflang="en">PlayStation</a>, <a href="/publication/youtube" hreflang="en">YouTube</a>
