From GI.biz: "Blizzard Albany's QA team has voted in favor of unionizing.
The QA team's votes were tallied today, with 14 developers voting in favor of unionization and none against.
There were four more votes cast, one of which was disqualified, with the other three challenged by Activision Blizzard.
A representative for the QA workers said the ballots were challenged because they came in late due to mail delays, and that Activision Blizzard management refused to drop their challenge despite those ballots not determining the outcome of the vote."
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
Is it common that basically a specific "department" of a company/location can unionize and not just the whole company/location?
That's great, and it's good to see that Activision Blizzard's appeal to try nullify these votes was denied.
I'm always amazed that a decent amount of people really do get tricked into hating unions and rally against their own self-interests. It's always sad to see. There's a reason non-union members have significantly lower median wages - unions work. That's why people like Bezos try so hard to clamp down on them and effectively ban them, and why Activision tried to pull a stunt here.
Ultimately, every single person who reads this comment would be immensely worse off without the existence of unions.
Unions are the reason that child labour was banned, why people have guaranteed unpaid leave to tend to sick family members, why the average person isn't forced to work a minimum of 61 hours a week, why employers in America provide health coverage, etc. They gave the average person dignity and a decent life.
Obviously companies competing with each other for talent helps wages (it helped me) but it isn't the reason that we have most of the perks in our jobs and have time to see our families.