The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has affected many live events due to public gathering restrictions and social distancing guidelines. E3 2020 was outright canceled, while the Game Developers Conference was turned into a digital-only event. Bethesda announced QuakeCon would move online for its 25th anniversary this year, and today a full schedule for QuakeCon at Home was released.

The convention is being held over Twitch and will begin with a welcome event on Friday, August 7 at 12:00 p.m. EST. Each day will have a few major segments, highlighted on the schedule: Friday has a boss event for Fallout 76 and a Doom Eternal panel; Saturday has a Dishonored-themed tabletop game and Bethesda Marketing Vice President Pete Hines playing The Elder Scrolls Online, and Sunday has the Quake World Championship Grand Finals and a panel for The Evil Within.

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Throughout the rest of the three-day event, there will also be segments focusing on games such as Skyrim, Prey, and Fallout 4, as well as fan-driven segments based on cosplay and a discussion on representation in video games. According to Bethesda's schedule post, "The beating heart of QuakeCon remains strong" despite world circumstances, so the event will celebrate "games, the people who make them, and the people who love them."

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Many of the events scheduled throughout QuakeCon at Home focus on Fallout 76, Bethesda's multiplayer online RPG that continues to see updates and improvements in spite of its controversial release. In fact, earlier today Bethesda detailed Fallout 76's two-part Brotherhood of Steel event, which will begin with a patch released prior to the digital convention.

There will also be a heavy focus on The Elder Scrolls Online, including a charity stream for UNICEF being held at 4:00 p.m. EST on Saturday, August 8. However, nothing is in the cards for Bethesda's highly-anticipated The Elder Scrolls 6, which makes sense considering Hines said it will be years before Elder Scrolls 6 details will be available, but that may still be disappointed for some fans who have been waiting on information past its announcement.

Though events like QuakeCon, Gamescom, and the Game Developers Conference are continuing while socially distant, other events and game developers themselves have struggled working from home. According to a survey of 2,500 people put out by GDC ahead of its summer event, one-third of developers say games were delayed by COVID-19, so it should be interesting to see how previously live events adapt to this new normal.

QuakeCon at Home will be held August 7 to 9 over Twitch.

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Source: Bethesda