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Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. For decades, the North American ...

Jack Peachey is a features writer at Dualshockers. An animation nerd, his favourite games don't have a genre in common as much as they all have pretty pictures. When not talking your ear off about a ...

At ZeniMax, a Microsoft-owned gaming studio, 300 quality assurance (QA) testers have voted to unionize. This marks Microsoft’s first official union in the U.S., as well as the biggest gaming union in ...

Mere weeks ago, quality assurance testers at Microsoft-owned ZeniMax Media were celebrating. ZeniMax Workers United-CWA was first formed back in 2023, and after almost two years and nearly going on ...

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in quality assurance (QA) has led to a huge shift in the industry. It’s common for people to think about AI as a force that does the work of people, only in a ...

Quality assurance testers at Microsoft-owned ZeniMax Studios just voted in favor of forming a union in a supermajority win. A PlayStation controller. The votes are in: a Maryland game workers movement ...

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) have today filed charges against publisher Activision—a company with a long track record of alleged union-busting—claiming the publisher violated several ...

A group of about 300 quality assurance (QA) testers at video game company ZeniMax Media are seeking to form the first ever union at Microsoft, the parent company to their studio. ZeniMax includes ...

Nintendo of America is facing yet another round of severe allegations that unfavorably alter its family-friendly image. Earlier this year, the company received alabor complaint with former contractors ...