Maurizio Massari

United Videogame Workers-CWA Statement on Proposed Electronic Arts Buyout October 15, 2025 NATIONWIDE — The following statement is from United Videogame Workers-CWA Local 9433. The recently proposed acquisition of Electronic Arts (EA) by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and private equity firms, including Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners, will further concentrate power and wealth into the hands of a few gatekeepers while doing nothing to address the concerns of players and workers. EA is not a struggling company. With annual revenues reaching $7.5 billion and $1 billion in profit each year, EA is one of the largest video game developers and publishers in the world. EA’s success has been entirely driven by tens of thousands of EA workers whose creativity, skill, and innovation made EA worth buying in the first place. Yet we, the very people who will be jeopardized as a result of this deal, were not represented at all when this buyout was negotiated or discussed. We are particularly worried about the future of our studios that are arbitrarily deemed ‘less profitable’ but whose contributions to the video game industry define EA’s reputation. Since 2022, an estimated 40,000 video game workers have already lost their jobs due to mass layoffs at AAA and indie studios alike. As reported in Game Developer, this deal will result in EA having to finance nearly $20 billion in debt—who will be spared, which corners will executives cut, and what studios will be sacrificed in order for that to happen? If jobs are lost or studios are closed due to this deal, that would be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors’ pockets—not to strengthen the company. Every time private equity or billionaire investors take a studio private, workers lose visibility, transparency, and power. Decisions that shape our jobs, our art, and our futures are made behind closed doors by executives who have never written a line of code, built worlds, or supported live services. We are…

Please read our statement regarding the proposed Electronic Arts buyout. We refuse to let corporate greed decide the future of our industry.

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Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Plenty of training when I was doing LQA testing, but then I noticed it's barely mentioned in outsourced translation jobs.

The best I got was from a big LSP that regularly shared all the platform-specific glossaries with its pool of freelancers, but there is often a clear lack of guidance.

This is what Palworld's Communications Director had to say on the matter. As of the time of posting, they have yet to follow-up on those questions. (Source: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...)

Shame on @theguardian.com for publishing science fiction as if it was actual news. You're supposed to be an informative newspaper, not a "dear diary" outlet for sci-fi enthusiasts.

Wheel World by @messhof.bsky.social / @annapurna.com, localized in 11 languages, does NOT feature any #TranslatorsInTheCredits. Only the localization agency, EDS Wordland Ltd., is credited.

Hopefully the fact that you're not a two-faced ghoul will be in your favour!

Keywords: communiqué from ACTA-Tramiti | AVTE The video game localisation industry is becoming unsustainable for freelancers: multinational giant Keywords ignores requests for collective bargaining

As the multinational giant @keywordsstudios.bsky.social loves to say, «There is a bit of Keywords in pretty much every video game that you know.» Yet, when the video game translators ask for fairer compensation, the giant seems as deaf as if it were someone else’s business.
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A screenshot taken from Atomfall's credits. Below the title "Game localisation", only Lionbridge Games is listed.

For our first official post on Bluesky, we would like to talk about the recent release of Atomfall by @rebellion.com.

Despite being available in 11 languages, the game doesn't feature any #TranslatorsInTheCredits and only includes Lionbridge Games.

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I really feel represented, thanks @potipoti.studio ❤️

This game looks and feels amazing, in spite of the geographical distance it really reminds me of my childhood in Naples ⚽ I'd love to see such a beautiful love letter to football translated into Italian, the act of kicking a ball it's basically sacred for many of us!

Yeah, I very much see it now

Sold at "A ROGUELIKE AUTOBONKER" <3

what is this and why am I not playing it, it feels wrong

Preach, why can't we just focus on that thing with words that we're good at!!!

I'd love to!

It's the thing I miss most from working in-house (well, maybe after having no financial worries...), it's the best way to grow professionally, even feedback you disagree with it's food for thought. I push to get some feedback loop established ASAP on any new project I get involved in!

Translation is all about conveying meaning from one language to another. But what do we do when we’re struggling with how to render that meaning in our target language?

Let’s talk about deverbalization, functionalism, and examples from SUBREDDITNAME and the Beings from Strange Planet!

Huge moment in the history of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

If you subscribe to Microsoft 365 Personal, the 40% price increase is a con to upsell you AI. Your old plan and price is still there called "Classic" - but only if you try to cancel.

Microsoft should be ashamed if not prosecuted.

We had a great English source text to work with! I'm happy that the story and world of this game are getting the attention they deserve.

To all of you who has supported @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social's Dreams of a Pillow already: thank you so so so much for being a part of this ever-improbable dream of a Palestinian developer making a Palestinian game about Palestinian stories.

Read up, signal boost, support at launchgood.com/1948

This game is pure gold. Can't wait to properly SHACK those buildings