As access to gambling expands, concerns about addiction among young people have increased.
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Months After Merging With Activision, Microsoft Lays Off Gaming Employees
The Communications Workers of America supported the merger after securing union neutrality commitments. So far, it has led only to a smaller workforce.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
What Good Were the Video Game Console Wars?
Our writing fellow pines for times when the video game industry wasn’t so consolidated and littered with junk fees galore.
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A Gaming Company’s Workers Unionized. But the Union Busting Didn’t End There.
TCGplayer, a subsidiary of eBay, has stalled negotiations on a first contract, despite the union winning an election in March.
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Nefarious Corporate Overlord Accidentally Kick-Starts Media Company
Gamurs Group fired the editor in chief of The Escapist. Most of the publication joined him to start something new, a worker cooperative called Second Wind.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
A Moral Video Game Industry Requires Regulation
Epic Games allegedly exposed children to predators and ripped off its customers.
Posted inWorking in America
Activision Workers Fight to Unionize
The popular gaming company, in the midst of a $70 billion merger with Microsoft, is resisting a unionization effort in its Raven Software division.