ZeniMax Workers United, a gaming union consisting of quality assurance workers from across the studios of Bethesda's parent company, is going on strike today over what it alleges to be excessive…
November 13, 2024 | 10:35 EST
UK-based gaming union IWGB Game Workers has released its first manifesto, which it says sets out "a vision for a better industry", and it includes policies like a four-day working week, an end to the…
October 31, 2024 | 11:50 EDT
It looks like Ubisoft's troubles are far from over. After admitting to an unsatisfactory financial performance for the first half of the year in a statement yesterday, the studio is now facing a…
September 26, 2024 | 09:18 EDT
A group of World of Warcraft developers at Blizzard have banded together to create the studio's first wall-to-wall union, which comprises workers from across the QA, art, and sound departments, plus…
July 25, 2024 | 09:28 EDT
It's been a week of change in the gaming industry. Unfortunately, we've seen yet more layoffs and studio closures this week, but this week has also yielded a major acquisition, a newly-unionized…
June 28, 2024 | 10:33 EDT
It's time to take a look at another week in the world of gaming business, and this week saw PlayStation's new CEO Hermen Hulst sharing some words about the company's future, as well as a studio…
May 31, 2024 | 10:13 EDT
Evil West and Shadow Warrior 3 developer Flying Wild Hog has unionized under the banner of the Polish Gamedev Workers Union. This news comes via a post on the union's official LinkedIn page, wherein…
February 15, 2024 | 10:06 EST
The $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft is now complete and while it has its supporters and its critics, one organization is expressing strong satisfaction, and that's the…
October 13, 2023 | 11:17 EDT
A new union for gaming industry workers has been formed in Poland, prompted by developers at the popular The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 studio CD Projekt. The union, which is open to all developers…
October 7, 2023 | 01:44 EDT
Over 100 developers working at Swedish developer Avalanche Studios Group have joined the local trade union Unionen. They represent about one-fifth of the group's roughly 500 employees. According to…
October 6, 2023 | 04:08 EDT
Microsoft's game development studios officially have their first union, as the majority of quality assurance workers at ZeniMax Studios have voted to join ZeniMax Workers United under the…
January 3, 2023 | 02:26 EST
ZeniMax QA workers have announced they will form Microsoft's first formal union. The new union will be called ZeniMax Workers United and will be formed in conjunction with the Communications Workers…
December 6, 2022 | 08:39 EST
It has been a long and winding road for the Blizzard Albany QA testers, who have been fighting to form a union for quite some time now. Even after multiple attempts to silence their voices and…
December 2, 2022 | 02:37 EST
Another day, another Activision Blizzard union-busting attempt, it seems. In a nutshell, the company is trying to block the tabulation of a union vote until an appeal on an earlier case can be…
November 2, 2022 | 11:52 EDT
A group of 21 QA testers working at Activision Blizzard Albany have been given the green light to vote in a union election by the National Labor Relations Board. Activision Blizzard had sought to…
October 19, 2022 | 09:05 EDT
Activision Blizzard has been accused of mounting a "futile" effort to try and disband the Blizzard Albany workers' union. The union says the company has spent "hundreds of thousands of dollars on a…
August 4, 2022 | 09:37 EDT
Quality Assurance testers at Blizzard Albany (formerly Vicarious Visions) have announced that they are forming a union to stand up against workplace discrimination and to fight for fair pay. The QA…
July 19, 2022 | 03:10 EDT
In the entertainment industry, it can be argued that video games take the most amount of work which is reflected by those who do it. For years, there have been reports of the severe working…
June 17, 2022 | 04:03 EDT
The world of tabletop gaming and the growing stresses of the retail industry overlap today. It was recently announced that the Bellevue location of Mox Boarding House have intentions of forming a…
June 16, 2022 | 02:54 EDT
Bobby Kotick has announced that Activision Blizzard would begin "good faith" negotiations with the Communication Workers of America. Earlier this year, the majority of 27 Raven Software quality…
June 10, 2022 | 12:30 EDT
This week, Raven Software successfully voted to form a union under Activision Blizzard, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was officially announced, and we talk about Digital Foundry’s analysis of the…
May 30, 2022 | 07:00 EDT
In a move that's becoming increasingly common in the gaming industry, Keywords Studios B.C. Inc. has filed for a union and has just sent a notice to one of the companies it works with, Bioware.…
April 26, 2022 | 10:36 EDT
Update (April 25, 2022 - 1:00 PM Eastern Time) Nintendo of America has provided a statement to TechRaptor that refutes the National Labor Relations Board complaint made against the company late last…
April 19, 2022 | 03:13 EDT
Workers at Raven Software -- one of the developers involved in the Call of Duty games -- have announced their intention to unionize as the Game Workers Alliance, requesting that Activision…
January 21, 2022 | 01:34 EST
You would be forgiven in thinking this has already happened, but Vodeo Games-developer of Beast Breaker-now has North America's first gaming union in Vodeo Workers United. The union is partnered with…
December 15, 2021 | 09:59 EST
Activision Blizzard has reportedly responded to union organization attempts by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) in an email to employees. Several employees at Activision…
December 10, 2021 | 03:55 EST
Australia is getting its first dedicated gaming union next year. The Australian branch of Game Workers Unite is rebranding as Game Workers Australia, a trade union that will offer several membership…
December 8, 2021 | 08:43 EST
The world of tabletop gaming has just taken a big step forward. In a surprising move, Paizo Publishing, the studio behind the fantasy tabletop RPG Pathfinder, has officially recognized the United…
October 22, 2021 | 11:59 EDT
30+ employees have formed a Paizo Union, making the United Paizo Workers one of the first real efforts at labor organization in the tabletop gaming space. Paizo is best known for the …
October 14, 2021 | 04:06 EDT
The Communications Workers of America union has filed an NLRB complaint against Activision Blizzard over alleged violations of federal labor law. Earlier this year, Activision Blizzard was…
September 14, 2021 | 02:30 EDT
The French union Solidaires Informatique has formally launched a complaint against Ubisoft and several of its key execs. Named figures include CEO Yves Guillemot and former chief creative officer…
July 16, 2021 | 10:57 EDT
UPDATE (23/07/2020): A representative from Solidaires Informatique told us that it decided to act because the revelations "didn't stop" after the initial wave. Marc Rutschlé, who oversees the Ubisoft…
July 22, 2020 | 11:02 EDT
Paradox Interactive has announced that it is to sign a collective bargaining agreement, or CBA, with its employees' labor unions. The agreement is expected to be finalized within the current…
June 3, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Summerfall Studios co-founders David Gaider and Liam Esler took to Twitter to announce that they're moving their upcoming crowdfunding campaign from Kickstarter to Fig following an apparent anti-…
October 4, 2019 | 07:32 EDT
Ustwo Games — developers of the critically-acclaimed mobile title Monument Valley — has been accused of union-busting over the dismissal of programmer Austin Kelmore. The Independent Workers Union…
October 3, 2019 | 11:11 EDT