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On July 26, 2024, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) initiated a labor strike involving the union’s voice actors and motion capture artists against American video game companies signed to the union’s Interactive Media Agreements over failed renegotiation terms of the contract that had expired in November 2022.
The strike marks the first time that actors have initiated a labor dispute since the 1980 actors strike. On September 1, the SAG-AFTRA National Board voted to send the video game strike authorization vote to its members, [23] [24] and on September 25, the results showed the authorization passed with 98.32% voting in favor. [25]
2016–2017 video game voice actor strike; 2024 SAG-AFTRA video game strike; C. California Department of Fair Employment and Housing v. Activision Blizzard;
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Some media outlets compared the 2023-2024 layoffs to the video game crash of 1983, when the US video game market collapsed due to an oversaturation of poorly made, low-quality games, causing the video game industry to enter a recession for two years. This has sparked discussions about a potential "second video game crash."