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Someone once told me I was weird for consuming as much milk as I do, but it's just that I like things that go with milk: cereal, coffee, protein powder. It's not like I sit down at my desk to play XDefiant with a big frothy glass of the white stuff.
Videogame actors are on strike: The approximately 160,000-member SAG-AFTRA union says that major game makers have refused to include sufficient protections against generative AI in their contracts. The game makers disagree, and for now, the parties are at an impasse.
It's happening again: Videogame voice and motion capture actors in the SAG-AFTRA union are going on strike. Over 160,000 performers will refuse to work on games in production at a number of major developers, including Activision, Disney, and EA, until the companies agree to a contract with «critical AI protections» for union members. The strike officially begins on July 26.
You can see it coming a million light years away: A game developer announces something that its players are obviously going to be infuriated by, and then a week or two later posts a black jpg with white text that says, one way or another, 'Oops! Our bad.'
Humble Games, an indie-focused publisher with dozens of games in its catalog, is «restructuring,» according to a statement published on X—but that new structure doesn't seem to involve any of its current employees.
Skull and Bones! Ubisoft's pirate sim wasn't great when I tried it: A hodge-podge of not particularly thrilling systems that were anyway obscured by all sorts of live-service stuff. Our Shaun Prescott scored it 68% in his Skull and Bones review, while Tyler Wilde found that it just made him really want to see what was going on in Sea of Thieves. Not glowing recommendations, in general.
Each year's slate of new pro sports games comes with a goofy set of new proper nouns to describe their cutting-edge animation and physics systems: Madden introduced «FieldSENSE» a few years ago, for instance, and now Madden NFL 25 promises «FieldSENSE powered by BOOM Tech.» You can't make this stuff up, unless you're EA of course, in which case you literally have.
Developers at Bethesda Game Studios have elected to unionize with the Communications Workers of America, a national labor organization that has also worked with Activision Blizzard employees on collective bargaining efforts.