SAG-AFTRA Confirms Over 120 Games From 49 Companies Have Signed Agreements
SAG-AFTRA said it created the new tiered-budget agreement to make it possible for indie developers to hire professional talents.
SAG-AFTRA said it created the new tiered-budget agreement to make it possible for indie developers to hire professional talents.
Video game actors are worried—even disgusted—that explicit scenes in video games are often not disclosed.
SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said the union will no longer accept a contract that enables the abuse of AI.
According to reports, WAME had created an AI chatbot that uses an interpretation of the GTA 5 character’s voice in a voice chat.
Nobody wants to hear about a price hike—except they are on the gaining end. However, in a comment last week Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto said the prices of video games are too low.
If eventually SAG-AFTRA calls a strike on video games, actors under the union will be barred from partaking in video game productions till further notice.
The next round of negotiation is scheduled to resume on 26 September 2023. Should negotiations fall through and the strike approved, SAG-AFTRA members will likely be banned from participating in video game productions or promotions
Some game developers and fans of video games became anxious to know if the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strike would affect video games in production or the release date of some of the already announced titles.