{"id":21211,"date":"2025-12-15T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/our-industry-has-been-strip-mined-video-game-workers-protest-at-the-game-awards\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:37:17","slug":"our-industry-has-been-strip-mined-video-game-workers-protest-at-the-game-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/our-industry-has-been-strip-mined-video-game-workers-protest-at-the-game-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our industry has been strip-mined\u2019: video game workers protest at The Game Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outside the lavish event, workers called out the \u2018greed\u2019 in the industry that has left games \u2018being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the night of the 2025 Game Awards<\/a>, a major industry event where the best games of the year are crowned and major publishers reveal forthcoming projects. In the shadow of the Peacock theater in Los Angeles and next to a giant, demonic statue promoting new game Divinity, which would be announced on stage later that evening, stands a collection of people in bright red shirts. Many are holding signs: a tombstone honouring the \u201cdeath\u201d of The Game Awards\u2019 Future Class talent development programme<\/a>; a bold, black-and-red graphic that reads \u201cWe\u2019re Done Playing\u201d; and \u201cwanted\u201d posters for Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick and Microsoft CEO Phil Spencer. This is a protest.<\/p>\n

The protesters, who were almost denied entry to the public space outside the Peacock theater (\u201cthey knew we were coming,\u201d one jokes), are from United Videogame Workers (UVW), an industry-wide, direct-join union for North America that is part of the Communications Workers of America. \u201cWe are out here today to raise awareness of the plight of the game worker,\u201d says Anna C Webster, chair of the freelancing committee, in the hot Los Angeles sun. \u201cOur industry has been strip-mined for resources by these corporate overlords, and we figured the best place to raise awareness of what\u2019s happening in the games industry is at the culmination, the final boss, as it were: The Game Awards.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nOutside the lavish event, workers called out the \u2018greed\u2019 in the industry that has left games \u2018being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money\u2019
\nIt\u2019s the night of the 2025 Game Awards, a major industry event where the best games of the year are crowned and major publishers reveal forthcoming projects. In the shadow of the Peacock theater in Los Angeles and next to a giant, demonic statue promoting new game Divinity, which would be announced on stage later that evening, stands a collection of people in bright red shirts. Many are holding signs: a tombstone honouring the \u201cdeath\u201d of The Game Awards\u2019 Future Class talent development programme; a bold, black-and-red graphic that reads \u201cWe\u2019re Done Playing\u201d; and \u201cwanted\u201d posters for Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick and Microsoft CEO Phil Spencer. This is a protest.
\nThe protesters, who were almost denied entry to the public space outside the Peacock theater (\u201cthey knew we were coming,\u201d one jokes), are from United Videogame Workers (UVW), an industry-wide, direct-join union for North America that is part of the Communications Workers of America. \u201cWe are out here today to raise awareness of the plight of the game worker,\u201d says Anna C Webster, chair of the freelancing committee, in the hot Los Angeles sun. \u201cOur industry has been strip-mined for resources by these corporate overlords, and we figured the best place to raise awareness of what\u2019s happening in the games industry is at the culmination, the final boss, as it were: The Game Awards.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outside the lavish event, workers called out the \u2018greed\u2019 in the industry that has left games \u2018being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money\u2019 It\u2019s the night of the 2025 Game Awards, a major industry event where the best games of the year are crowned and major publishers reveal forthcoming …<\/p>\n

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