Game (still) on: How coronavirus is impacting the gaming industry

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In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, movie theaters shuttered, Hollywood delayed some of its biggest films indefinitely, numerous productions across movies and TV halted,…

. A rep for Bethesda declined to comment for this story, but mentioned "the team is currently focused on thelaunch." A rep for Capcom, who's working closely with all its teams as they work from home, confirms the release ofremains the same at the moment. Multiple reps from Sony Interactive Entertainment did not respond to EW's requests for comment.early "as a safety precaution for our customers and associates" in light of social distancing guidelines.

"Starting a while ago, due to the global COVID-18 outbreak, Remedy Entertainment set up a strike team to plan how we can effectively keep our operations going, maintain our business and our employee's safety as we transition into working remotely, and set up for everything that entails," a spokesperson said in a statement.

"We had okay capabilities to do that anyway, but scaling up is a definitely challenge, but our team has done amazingly well," he writes. "It’s not like people can just take their computers and dev kits and go home and work and that’s it. There’s far more to it."

 

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