Although strike authorization was granted with a 98 p.c approval vote, solely 27 p.c of eligible members voted. Strike authorization approval doesn’t imply that online game voice actors and movement seize performers are actually on strike. Nevertheless, ought to contract negotiations attain an deadlock, members coated underneath the interactive media settlement now have permission to strike. 

Among the greatest online game publishers within the business are in negotiations with SAG-AFTRA, together with Activision Blizzard, Digital Arts, Insomniac Video games, Take-Two Interactive, Epic Video games, and Warner Bros. Video games. As with the writers and actors strike, members are preventing for elevated wages and protections for his or her voice and likeness from AI. 

“It’s time for the online game corporations to cease taking part in video games and get critical about reaching an settlement on this contract,” stated SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher.

Contract negotiations are set to proceed the remainder of this week. Ought to SAG-AFTRA name for a strike, video games revealed by these studios — notable amongst them the forthcoming Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 — would turn into struck work.