SAG-AFTRA has reach an agreement to end its strike against game companies.
SAG-AFTRA has reach an agreement to end its strike against game companies.
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SAG-AFTRA actors union reaches agreement with game companies to stop strike

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The game companies and the SAG-AFTRA actors’ union have reached an agreement that is expected to end a long strike.

Once the terms of a strike suspension agreement are finalized with employers, the strike will be over. The strike was mainly about the rights of video game voice actors when it comes to the use of their voices or likenesses when it comes to the game companies’ use of AI to reproduce actors in their games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.