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nimax media s qa team microsoft which had previously acquired zenimax and announced plans to acquire blizzard via the acquisition of activision blizzard stated it supported these unionization efforts 62 after this acquisition the employees of bethesda game studios part of zenimax under microsoft unionized under the communications workers of america cwa in july 2024 63 over 500 employees within blizzard entertainment s world of warcraft division also unionized with cwa that same month 64 similarly blizzard s overwatch team unionized in may 2025 65 raven software blizzard s story and franchise development team and blizzard s diablo team separately voted for unionization in august 2025 66 67 68 and the hearthstone and warcraft rumble teams followed with their vote in october 2025 by this point over 2000 blizzard employees had become unionzized 69 the union contract for blizzard employees was formally put in place by september 2026 70 sweden presents a unique case where nearly all parts of its labor force including white collar jobs such as video game development may engage with labor unions under the employment protection act often through collective bargaining agreements developer dice had reached its union agreements in 2004 71 paradox interactive became one of the first major publishers to support unionization efforts in june 2020 with its own agreements to cover its swedish employees within two labor unions unionen and saco 72 in australia video game developers could join other unions but the first video game specific union game workers unite australia was formed in december 2021 under professionals australia to become active in 2022 73 in canada in a historic move video game workers in edmonton unanimously voted to unionize for the first time in june 2022 74 in january 2023 after not being credited in the last of us hbo adaptation bruce straley called for unionization of the video game industry 75 he told the los angeles times someone who was part of the co creation of that world and those characters isn t getting a credit or a nickel for the work they put into it maybe we need unions in the video game industry to be able to protect creators 76 an industry wide union the united video game workers cwa uva cwa for north american workers was announced in march 2025 with support from the communication workers of america 77 za um the developers of disco elysium became the first video game studio in the united kingdom to unionize under the independent workers union of great britain in october 2025 78 in france le syndicat des travailleureuses du jeu vidéo stjv was established in 2017 and represents works from studios including ubisoft quantic dream don t nod and spiders 79 80 video game scholars have argued that systematic issues in the industry such as improper creditation exploitaiton and crunch can directly impact games produced the best known example of this is warren robinett s easter egg in adventure 1979 at the time atari did not credit developers for their games reducing their bargaining and star power 81 robinett created a hidden room in which the words created by warren robinett appeared on an infinite loop which became known as one of the earliest video game easter eggs 82 according to spowage the last of us reflects problems faced by developers in its semiotic landscapes workplace signs in game register problems that faced developers working on the game including low pay and lack of unionisation 83 because of these kinds of examples dyer witherford and de peuter argue that developers have a disruptive potential with regards to the products of development games even where denied control over the process of development 84 see also list of video game developers list of independent game developers video game industry practices references bethke erik k 2003 game development and production texas wordware 2 inc p 4 isbn 1 55622 951 8 mcguire morgan jenkins odest chadwicke 2009 creating games in maps for happy wills 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