I know what you’re thinking. We’re already surviving a global pandemic, so why would anyone consider playing a game with that name literally in the title? Because, my friends, the co-op board game version of fighting this big thing is all about coming together for the sake of the greater good. I mean, who doesn’t love a superhero tale, right? …
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The Big Picture Netflix teases Season 2 of Squid Game with mysterious symbols on a billboard, hinting at news to come. Season 1 of Squid Game was a major success, winning multiple Emmy Awards and breaking viewing records. Fans can hope for an official release date and possibly a trailer for Squid Game Season 2 to drop soon. One of …
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Striking SAG-AFTRA video game actors has set their first picket line for Thursday, Aug. 1 outside of WB Games, the guild announced Tuesday. From 9:00 to noon, guild members will assemble outisde of Gate 5 on Warner Bros. lot at the corner of Warner Blvd. and South Avon Street in Burbank (91522), with parking nearby on Riverside Drive. Sarah Elmaleh, …
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Video game actors are currently on strike, in hopes that withholding their work from video game companies will push those companies to agree to better actor protections around the use of AI. However, at least one video game CEO — Andrew Wilson of Electronic Arts — doesn’t think the strike is going to impact his company, at least in the …
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Photo: Microsoft / Kotaku / Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) Last week, a good chunk of the digital world shut down and stopped working due to an update that caused Microsoft’s Windows operating system to crash and display a blue screen on millions of devices. This affected places like hospitals, schools, and airports. But one airline, unlike the others, was spared …
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San Diego Comic-Con 2024 was (mostly) a return to normal. With a few baffling caveats. Studios brought big presentations to Hall H, the local night life was booming, and fans packed the halls and rooms of the convention center day after day. At the same time, what was supposed to be a post-strike SDCC serendipitously wasn’t, as SAG-AFTRA went on …
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In a press conference held Friday during San Diego Comic-Con, a panel of voice actors and SAG-AFTRA representatives provided more detail about why talks with major video game companies broke down, and the guild declared a strike. After 18 months, negotiations ended when the guild and a consortium of developers covered under the interactive media agreement — which covers both …
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Picture Credit score: Getty Photos SAG-AFTRA is putting towards online game publishers to guard actors from being exploited with the assistance of synthetic intelligence. After a yr and a half of negotiations a deal has not been reached. The union needs to make sure that synthetic intelligence is just not used as a tactic to make the most of actors …
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Video game voice actors represented by SAG-AFTRA – one of America’s biggest actors’ unions – are going on strike. After over a year of negotiations with some of the biggest western publishers including Activision Blizzard, EA, and Take Two, negotiations have reached a standstill over one of the more controversial points of debate: AI. AI has proven to be an …
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Video game actors are going on strike for the first time since 2017 after months of negotiations with Activision, Epic Games, and other big publishers and studios over higher pay, better safety measures, and protections from new generative AI technologies. They’ll be hitting the picket line a year after Hollywood actors and writers wrapped up their own historic strikes in …
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