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Workers who make some of the world’s most popular video games, including and , won their first union contracts in early September, in an important step forward for organizing in the tech industry.

Blizzard workers rallied outside the company’s Irvine, California, headquarters in August as part of the push for a first contract. Photo: Orange County Labor Federation

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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.

Supermassive Games has announced a third round of layoffs in three years, potentially impacting up to 75 positions.

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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.”

For two and a half years, Andrew Willis has worked as producer for id Software — the Richardson-based developer that makes popular video games Doom and Quake