We've got 31 game devs who are keen to get to work, @rockstargames.com.

We won't back down - we will fight @rockstargames.com & @taketwointeractive.bsky.social for our members' reinstatement. No one should be fired for union activity. You can support our campaign here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Rockstar: tries to bust unions🦹‍♀️ Us: Hold my controller 🎮🔥🔥 We're fighting back 💥💥 IWGB organized a protest in front of the @rockstargames.com parent company Take-Two Interactive in London today We'll make sure the credits are rolling on their corporate greed ❌️ @gameworkers.co.uk

This goes into that “deprofessionalization” of the game industry article that went around a few months ago. People who don’t understand the work or care about the value of the people doing the work or honestly even care about quality at all. They just want to not have to pay workers.

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Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union. Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

SAG-AFTRA stands in solidarity with the IWGB Game Workers Union exercising their right to organize following reports of union-busting at Rockstar. Our members’ union performances on Rockstar games are an integral part of the success and legacy of games like Grand Theft Auto.

With October coming to a close things really escallated quickly. We now know of so many games industry layoff waves in 2025 that we're only one short of matching 2024, and we have two months still to go.

Game workers of Toronto unite! Take a break from making games by playing games at the UVW Toronto meetup on Friday November, 14th at FreePlay Retro Arcade Bar. Admission is free (just check in at the door), first drink is on us! www.eventbrite.com/e/united-vid...

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

Scare your boss this Halloween by talking to your coworkers (on your personal devices outside of company time, ideally on an encrypted app like Signal) about organizing your workplace 👻

Unfortunately I suspect as union activity gains momentum and popular support in this broken industry we will continue to see studios ramp up their union busting efforts. Be smart: practice good infosec, read up on typical union-busting tactics, and most importantly: don’t let them scare you.

there are probably a number of people who are pro-union but quiet about it on written platforms in an attempt to mitigate retaliatory behavior from paranoid employers. pic unrelated

the only gross misconduct we see is uhhhhh. hhhhh. ghhhhh im tired scoob

Exciting news!! Game workers have united to form the first game workers union in Brazil, @sindjogos.bsky.social! ✊

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

Have you considered this model for your studio? The worker cooperative is a little-known business model in games, focused on workers' rights and democratic management, working against the current AAA flow of the industry. youtu.be/bNVH8JQ4ORA #gamedev

Being a game worker in 2025 feels like that one scene from the third season of Twin Peaks where that girl gets forcibly removed from the booth where she's sitting in the Roadhouse and then crawls to the center of the dance floor and just starts screaming

If you're a member of Amazon's video game division and would like to talk (confidentially or otherwise) about the company's latest cuts and AI push, please feel free to reach out. DMs open. Email in bio. Signal QR code pinned.

"why are games so expensive" "why are mass layoffs happening" "why are games getting cancelled" "why did that popular studio close" it's capitalism. capitalism is why all of this is happening. the rampant prioritizing of profit over the all else, from price and quality to dev health and well being.

I don’t talk about it much because the situation doesn’t really change but it’s still insane to me what an enormous amount of really talented game developers are out of work. just whole studios worth of incredible people, often people who worked on beloved games, unemployed.

More than 1,200 video game journalists have left major publications in the past two years, and not returned to the media, according to data supplied to VGC. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/more-th...

Unionizing your workplace is the ultimate "voluntary career transition program, giving eligible team members the opportunity to take their next career step on their own terms"

NOTHING is lost by properly crediting individuals for the exact contributions they made. You list the entire executive suite who never touched a key and yet people who ground on the game for years are regulated to a "and they were also here." It's not hard. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/rid...

"According to a number of former employees, Benzies and other senior employees doomed the game's development through a combination of "knee-jerk" decisions and a refusal to listen to employee concerns." many such cases

100%. The @videogameworkers.bsky.social Freelancing Committee has union insurance ranked as our #1 priority. The process of securing affordable insurance for all union members will admittedly be a long road, but it’s one we MUST take. So often health insurance is the “carrot on a stick.”

More exciting video game union news: Team 5 is joining CWA 💪 "We chose to organize in pursuit of a collective voice and a force of solidarity that the industry cannot ignore."

Hearthstone and Warcraft Rumble developers unionize to combat 'instability and unfair conditions'

Sign our petition urging the US FTC to watch this deal closely. If left unchecked, this deal spells disaster for EA's workers and players alike, but there's still time to do something about it! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ma...

Please read our statement regarding the proposed Electronic Arts buyout. We refuse to let corporate greed decide the future of our industry. cwa-union.org/news/release...

The shorter games with worse graphics made by less people discourse is starting again and the nuance lost in this conversation is: we absolutely CAN make big, hyper-realistic games, sustainably. The problem -- and the money drain -- is executive pay, leadership overreach, mismanagement, and whims.

Please read our statement regarding the proposed Electronic Arts buyout. We refuse to let corporate greed decide the future of our industry. cwa-union.org/news/release...

EA employees and UVW-CWA slam Saudi-led EA buyout, call for regulatory scrutiny

I think it should remain possible to work professionally on video games without having to move

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Current or former Sucker Punch employees! I'm looking to talk to people about company culture, Ghost of Yotei harassment, and the events that took place last month. I can protect your identity. It would be immensely helpful for a story I'm working on. My information is signal below.

We stand in solidarity with employees and ex-employees at Build a Rocket Boy as they file legal claims through our union and publish an open letter, condemning the way in which they’ve been mistreated and discarded by the studio’s millionaire executives. www.gameworkers.co.uk/barb-open-le...

Since we last shared an update on bargaining, we’ve received additional information about management salaries at Rewire. The TLDR: The pay discrepancy between management and union members is deeply unsettling.

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The workers at ZA/UM Studio have unionized. First recognised games union in the UK, too. May many others follow. www.gameworkers.co.uk/workers-at-z...

🙌The first recognised union for game devs in the UK! 🙌 Workers at ZAUM now have a say on their pay and conditions at work with the support of the @iwgbunion.bsky.social Work in games in the UK? Join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

Come see the talk that the big mainstream games convention literally does not want you to see!

Game studios with mandatory RTO:

UVW-CWA will be at the Queerness and Games Conference this weekend! ✊🌈 This Saturday, our worker-organizers will be running the workshop "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers." We hope to see you there! #QGCon

Find our members both Saturday and Sunday in arcade section as well, where you'll be able to chat with us and grab our very cool zines & pins 😎

QGCon is coming in just over a week! Come to our talk GAY PEOPLE UNIONIZE - WHY NOW, WHY YOU on Saturday 26th at 2pm in the auditorium to learn about why you (gay) should unionize, now! bsky.app/profile/qgco...

Former ProbablyMonsters workers raise alarm about mismanagement at studio