Of all the ways to let someone go, doing it via a Zoom call and after a night shift shouldn't be one of them.

On February 28, EA tried to quietly lay off over 200 quality assurance (QA) testers from their Baton Rouge office. These QA testers were primarily working on the Respawn Entertainment developed battle royale game Apex Legends. The initial reporting about these layoffs came to light via Kotaku, who says that the layoffs happened via a Zoom call.

The process of laying...

Another win for game industry unionization.

Earlier this morning, QA testers working on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf voted unanimously to form Canada's first video game labor union. The motion was first filed on April 20, 2022. The vote concluded today with a final vote of 16-0 in favor of unionizing.

These testers are not employed directly through Electronic Arts. They are employed as contractors through Keywords Studios, which has over 40 offices all around the world. These...

Most of the walkouts come from the QA department following layoffs at Raven Software.

Quality assurance developers alongside some developers from Raven Software are staging a walkout today in protest of the sudden and shocking layoffs that began last Friday. According to Kotaku, these layoffs happened after the staff were previously promised to be given raises by Activision. Raven Software is the studio mainly in charge of the very successful Call of Duty: Warzone battle royale game....

Apparently, the server update that was released today for Battlefield 4 completely and totally broke the game for many players. Go figure! Today's server...