Today's News:
* The Communication Workers of America (CWA) recently filed charges against Activision Blizzard over claims that the company violated labor laws in regards to their recent firing of two Q&A employees. According to Kotaku, these firings revolved around AB's recent mandate for the partial return to in-office work for their entire workforce which led to two employees having a heated exchange with management that then led to a disciplinary meeting resulting in their firings. The CWA is also claiming that AB fired the two people for engaging in union protected activity and also denied requests for a third worker to be present at the disciplinary meeting. As a result of the CWA's charges, the National Labor Relations Board is currently expected to investigate AB over these issues, according to GamesIndustry.boz.
Link:
https://kotaku.com/activision-accuse...r-r-1850171073 ,
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/cwa-pr...-two-employees
* Telltale Games announced that they have recently delayed their upcoming The Wolf Among Us 2 game to a new date of TBA 2024. The official reason given was due to them changing the game's engine from Unreal 4 to Unreal 5 and wanting to avoid crunch time had they pushed forward with a release in this year.
Link:
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-wol...o-avoid-crunch
* EA reportedly recently fired around 200 Q&A testers from their Apex Legends game, according to Kotaku. It was reported that these firings targeted all of EA's Baton Rouge-based testing team and was done without prior warning in a Zoom call meeting held yesterday. One tester who was fired stated that they were told by EA that the reason for their firings was due to "QA doesn't currently reflect their demographics, which is a completely insane thing to tell staff from a majority-black city that likely has more black workers than anywhere else in the entire corporation?"
Link:
https://kotaku.com/ea-apex-legends-b...oom-1850168472 ,
https://www.destructoid.com/apex-leg...ronic-arts-ea/ ,
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