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Bethesda Game Studios opened in 2001 as the development unit of Bethesda Softworks, separating from publishing operations. Todd Howard serves as the studio's executive producer, leading it with managing director Ashley Cheng and studio director Angela Browder. As of November 2023, Bethesda Game Studios had 450 employees. [1]
241 US employees at Bethesda Game Studios unionized as "OneBGS" on July 20, 2024. Its three studios are located in Austin / Dallas, Texas and Rockville, Maryland . [ 21 ] The bargaining unit includes artists, developers, and engineers; unlike its parent company ZeniMax , which exclusively represented QA testers at the time.
The Campaign to Organize Digital Employees or CODE-CWA is a project launched by the Communications Workers of America to unionize tech and video game workers in January 2020. [1] It sprung out of conversations with Game Workers Unite (GWU) and employed at least two full time staff, including GWU co-founder Emma Kinema and veteran SEIU organizer ...
Some employees of closed studios will be shifted to other remaining game studios at Microsoft. Microsoft acquired Bethesda owner ZeniMax Media in 2021. The company is a division of Microsoft ...
ZeniMax Media Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Rockville, Maryland.The company was founded in 1999 by Christopher Weaver and Robert A. Altman as the parent company for Weaver's video game publisher Bethesda Softworks.
Workers on the development team for hit video game 'World of Warcraft' have voted to unionize, marking the latest entrant in a wave of unionizing efforts in the video game industry.
Microsoft Gaming is an American multinational video game and digital entertainment division of Microsoft based in Redmond, Washington established in 2022. Its five development and publishing labels consist of: Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks (publisher of ZeniMax Media), Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, and King (the latter three are publishers of Activision Blizzard). [2]
Bethesda later found widespread success as a game developer with its Elder Scrolls series of games. In 1999, Weaver cofounded ZeniMax Media with Robert A. Altman, as a new parent company for Bethesda. Weaver contributed his stake in Bethesda to ZeniMax, [3] and served as CTO until 2002, then was pushed out. He filed a lawsuit against ZeniMax ...