“While we don’t know what the state of the pandemic will be this August, we do know it will not be possible to complete the work and planning with partners, vendors, volunteers, and others that is required to make QuakeCon a success.”
QuakeCon has traditionally been a celebration of Bethesda’s id shooter properties. The show usually features game reveals, demos, and tournaments revolving around Quake, Doom, and Wolfenstein. The studios said, “We hope to work with you to come up with other ways to celebrate the spirit of QuakeCon this August, and we look forward to the return of this amazing event next year.”
This news comes as Pete Hines, Bethesda’s SVP of global marketing and communications, also announced that the publisher wouldn’t host a Digital Showcase in June to replace its E3 2020 presentation.
“Given the many challenges we’re facing due to the pandemic, we will not host a digital Showcase in June,” Hines wrote on Twitter. “We have lots of exciting things to share about our games and look forward to telling you more in the coming months.”
With the release of Doom Eternal in March, there are currently no other upcoming Bethesda projects scheduled for this year besides the Fallout 76: Wastelanders and The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor expansions set to release in April and May, respectively. Whether or not Bethesda was planning to announce or update us on other projects like Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI at E3 2020, it seems like we’ll have to wait a bit longer to hear more about what the studio is working on.
We’ll keep you updated as we learn more.