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 ...

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 ...

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Video game testers at Middleton-based Raven Software have ratified their first union contract, more than three years after making local and national headlines by launching the first union at a major U ...

A group of roughly 600 software testers at Activision Blizzard on Friday formed the U.S. video game industry's largest union so far. The union is the first to organize under a new labor neutrality ...

Around 300 QA workers at Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Studios have officially formed Microsoft's first union - and the biggest video game studio union in the United States. The union, ZeniMax ...

Video game quality assurance testers at Keywords Studios report they have been pressured to work on-site as upper management works from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an investigative ...

A group of video game testers at Microsoft have formed the tech giant's first union, and Microsoft has signed off on it, according to Communications Workers of America, which represents the employees.

It's an obvious truth that the vast majority of video games no longer cater to one specific country or language. They are universally beloved experiences with global launches. Therefore it's crucial ...

Nearly 1,100 of Activision Blizzard's U.S.-based temporary and contingent quality assurance (QA) workers who test the company's video games will be given full-time status starting July 1. The move ...

Bioware's quality assurance testers working on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf have voted to form the first unionized workplace for the video game industry in Canada. The United Food and Commercial Workers ...

Five skills you need when applying and interviewing for a video game tester job Your email has been sent While the role of game tester may seem like an easy way to start a career in video game ...