Gaming Unions

Ubisoft Entertainment SA (OTC:UBSFF) admitted that Star Wars Outlaws, its highly anticipated open-world game, has underperformed. Despite receiving a Metacritic score of 76 and decent user reviews (3.9/5 on Epic Games Store), the game’s sales did not meet expectations and led to a strategic...

Raven Software, known for its contributions to the Call of Duty franchise, is making headlines again—this time, not for its gaming achievements, but for a legal battle with its parent companies, Activision Blizzard and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). Employees at Raven Software, who established the...

Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bethesda Game Studios (BGS) Montreal is the latest studio in the video game industry to announce its intention to form a union. The One BGS MTL union revealed on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that it has filed for certification with the Quebec...

The Communications Workers of America (CWA), the largest communications and media labor union in the U.S., has filed Unfair Labour Practice charges against Lionbridge Technologies, a supplier for Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT). According to the CWA press release, Lionbridge laid off an entire Idaho-...

Around 600 quality assurance (QA) workers employed by Activision under Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) have successfully formed a union named Activision Quality Assurance United (AQAU) with the support of the Communications Workers of America (CWA). This marks the first unionization effort within...

In 2023, the gaming industry experienced a notable trend of mass layoffs, contrasting with the success of blockbuster video games. Estimates suggested over 10,000 workers were laid off and a recent survey from the Game Developers Conference (GDC) indicates one-third of game developers were...

Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Quality Assurance (QA) workers within Activision are protesting a new return-to-office mandate, labeling it a "soft layoff" and fearing it will force many employees out of the company. What Happened: The ABK Workers Alliance opposes this mandate,...

Sega of America, part of Sega Sammy Holdings Inc - ADR (OTC: SGAMY), faced accusations of attempting mass layoffs in retaliation for employees' unionization efforts, as detailed in an unfair labor practice complaint filed by the Communications Workers of America. According to Kotaku, the...

A new Polish game developer union, the Polish Gamedev Workers Union, has been formed in response to three rounds of layoffs at CD Projekt ADR (OTC: OTGLY), the studio behind The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077. The union was founded by current CD Projekt staff Paweł Myszka and Lev Ki. They decided to...