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The unprecedented, 340-day video game voice acting strike organised by the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has come to an end. A deal has been negotiated and approved, and actors sworn off some of the biggest companies in video games are free to resume working with them immediately."Our negotiating committee has reached an agreement to end the strike against 11 video game companies that has been ongoing since October 21, 2016," SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris announced. "Accordingly, you are free to resume working for the companies that were struck on all titles effective immediately."
The strike was in opposition to 11 major video game companies including Activision, Electronic Arts, insomniac Games, Take 2 and Warner Bros. Games, and contested four major issues: transparency for better negotiating contracts; prevention of vocal stress from long recording sessions; stunt coordinators to be on hand at performance capture sets; and secondary pay based on sales of a video game.
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