Media Bits and Bytes – January 21, 2025
Portside
Media in galloping retreat
Media in galloping retreat
Media in galloping retreat
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The Video Game Industry Is Unionizing
Jacobin
This summer, World of Warcraft and Bethesda Game Studios workers joined the growing number of video game developers organizing with Communications Workers of America. We spoke with some of the workers and organizers who have been unionizing
Media Bits and Bytes – August 6, 2024
Portside
Wrong on so many levels
Friday Nite Videos | July 26, 2024
Portside
Trump Still Appears Headed for September Sentencing. Fox's Kamala Problem. Private Equity Is Coming for Gaming. Project 2025: The Radical Conservative Plan to Reshape America Under Trump | WSJ. RNC & ”Migrant Crime” | John Oliver.
Private Equity Is Coming for Gaming
Investors flocked to buy up video game studios during the pandemic. We get glitchier games and fewer workers are forced to put in inhumane hours.
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The Game Studios Changing the Industry by Unionizing
Polygon
Union interest is growing in the gaming industry
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Hundreds of Video Game Workers at Microsoft-Owned Studios Are Trying To Unionize
Jacobin
This month, around 300 workers at four Microsoft-owned video game studios across the US are voting on whether to unionize. Jacobin spoke to workers involved in the effort about their organizing and why they want a union.
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Going Against Big Tech’s Anti-Union Grain, Microsoft Is Making Good on Its Promise of “Neutrality”
QUARTZ
If the unionization vote passes, it’ll be a landmark win for more than one reason: It would create the largest video game industry union in the United States, and the first official U.S. union under Microsoft.
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