SAG-AFTRA & Video Game Companies Set To Resume Contract Talks As Strike Nears Three-Month Mark

It’s been many months since SAG-AFTRA and the major video game companies sat down for in-person bargaining talks on a new contract. That’s about to change.

The actors union, which launched a strike in late July against several companies, said today that it will resume negotiation for its Interactive Media Agreement on Wednesday, October 23. It will mark the sides’ first formal negotiations since mid-November. Bargaining has continued off-and-on, but they have been operating without a contract since November 2022.

The contract covers voice and performance-capture talent on video games. 

The gamer companies being struck are Activision Productions, Blindlight, Disney Character Voices, Electronic Arts Productions, Formosa Interactive, Insomniac Games, Llama Productions, Take 2 Productions and WB Games.

When the strike was called, negotiations on the Interactive Media Agreement had been ongoing for more than 18 months, though these talks aren’t as consistent as those between Hollywood unions and the AMPTP, where the parties set aside several consecutive weeks to bargain.

Neither side had further comment on the resumption of talks.

SAG-AFRTA also said today that it has scheduled its next picket line for tomorrow, October 16, at WB Games offices in Burbank.