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The voice actor’s strike is underway in video game business

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Video game voice actors declared a strike today, as the midnight deadline for negotiations passed without an announcement of a resolution of the labor dispute.

The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) voted on Sunday to set October 21 at 12:01 am as the deadline for reaching an agreement, and it voted unanimously to go on strike after that date. And the guild just issued a statement saying the strike has begun.

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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.