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N.C. — A 24-year-old California man is in jail in Union County after law enforcement officers said he traveled across the country to meet a 15-year-old girl he met online

Hundreds of unionized video game workers amassed outside Xbox studios across the United States and Canada this week to protest the latest round of mass layoffs within Microsoft’s video game division.

Yesterday, Xbox CEO Asha Sharmapaid a visitto Bethesda’s office in Rockville, Maryland, to catch a glimpse ofThe Elder Scrolls VI.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath met last week with leaders of the Entertainment Union Coalition to discuss challenges facing the region’s film and television industry and strategies to keep production, jobs and investment local. She laterintroduced amotion at the Board of Supervisors meeting to support legal action against the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger.

In a statement released on social media, Dark Horse Workers United (DHWU), the union for the publisher’s employees, alleges that the company is targeting senior editors by giving them supervisory manager status.

Unionized Bethesda Montreal employees have slammed parent company Microsoft for allegedly offering laid off workers the “smallest severance legally possible without bargaining with the union.”

Xbox has been accused of “unlawfully” laying off staff without giving notice to, or discussing it with, recognized unions.

Sony is discontinuing physical media starting in 2028, sparking backlash across social media. The announcement comes at at time when it’s facing consumer lawsuits over how it handles the digital distribution of its games.