Labor - Aftermath

What If We Threw Every Person Involved In Private Equity Into The Ocean

Just asking a question

By Luke Plunkett

/ 26 Nov 2025

What If We Threw Every Person Involved In Private Equity Into The Ocean

Demonschool’s Credits Show Rest Of Games Industry How It’s Done

"Who cares if it's a lot of people? Who cares if it's long? They all did something and they deserve credit"

By Nathan Grayson

/ 25 Nov 2025

Demonschool’s Credits Show Rest Of Games Industry How It’s Done

Two Months After Firing Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Ghost Of Yotei Dev Blames Harassment Campaign, Not ‘Bad Joke’

"I really don’t want this to happen to anyone else, because I feel like with the state of everything, it will absolutely happen to other people," says Drew Harrison

By Alyssa Mercante

/ 24 Nov 2025

Two Months After Firing Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Ghost Of Yotei Dev Blames Harassment Campaign, Not ‘Bad Joke’

Let's See How Being 'AI First' Is Going For Krafton

AI continues to revolutionize work, just as it promised

By Riley MacLeod

/ 13 Nov 2025

Virtual people partying in the video game InZoi

Following Firings And Grand Theft Auto VI Delay, Union Plans To Keep Pressure On Rockstar

"When companies do something like this, you can't just slink away and hide anymore"

By Nathan Grayson

/ 10 Nov 2025

Following Firings And Grand Theft Auto VI Delay, Union Plans To Keep Pressure On Rockstar

Days After Hyping Games Business To Investors, Netflix Closes Squid Game: Unleashed Studio

Netflix has closed Squid Game: Unleashed developer Boss Fight Entertainment, according to former staff. News spread about the closure on Thursday, just days after Netflix's third quarter financial

By Nicole Carpenter

/ 24 Oct 2025

Squid Game participants and guards standing in a row in Squid Game: Unleashed

Everyone Who Worked On A Video Game Needs To Be In The Credits

This is a new story, in that there is a new story today about it, but this is also a very old story, in that the same shit has been

By Luke Plunkett

/ 21 Oct 2025

Everyone Who Worked On A Video Game Needs To Be In The Credits

Big Week For Unions At Blizzard As Hearthstone Team Also Votes ‘Yes’

Blizzard Entertainment's Team 5—responsible for the development of Hearthstone—is unionizing. A group of around 100 workers voted yes to representation with the Communications Workers of America

By Nicole Carpenter

/ 17 Oct 2025

Heartstone key art, with the words "Across The Timeways" at the bottom

Battle.net Workers Unionize As Microsoft Neutrality Agreement Expires

Workers on Blizzard’s Battle.net platform have voted to unionize under the Communications Workers of America. The nearly 400 workers under Blizzard Entertainment's Platform and Technology department

By Nicole Carpenter

/ 15 Oct 2025

Battle.net Workers Unionize As Microsoft Neutrality Agreement Expires

MindsEye Workers Condemn Leadership's 'Disrespect And Mistreatment' In Open Letter

Workers laid off from MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy have sent an open letter and launched legal action against the company. The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain’

By Nicole Carpenter

/ 10 Oct 2025

Screenshot from MindsEye, showing a person with a gun firing at others

Trying To Get A Job In Video Games Right Now Is Like Crawling Through Hell

The application process has become a dehumanising, demoralising grind

By Luke Plunkett

/ 2 Oct 2025

Trying To Get A Job In Video Games Right Now Is Like Crawling Through Hell

Months After Microsoft Layoffs, Zenimax Unions Never Stopped Fighting For Impacted Workers

Back in July, Microsoft laid off 9,100 employees across the company, in particular gutting numerous games teams and leading to a cascade of high-profile project cancellations that included Perfect

By Nathan Grayson

/ 17 Sep 2025

Months After Microsoft Layoffs, Zenimax Unions Never Stopped Fighting For Impacted Workers