labor
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Konami Employee Arrested For Allegedly Attempting To Murder His Former Boss
A former Konami employee was arrested this week for allegedly attempting to murder his boss by hitting him in the head with a fire extinguisher in the office, Livedoor reported.
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eBay’s Online Card Marketplace TCGPlayer Forms Its Own Union
TCGPlayer, the popular marketplace responsible for handling shipments for card games, comics, and collectible trading cards, has unionized. This past Friday before the weekend started, a majority of its workers voted in favour of becoming the TCGUnion. Notably, this makes it the first group of employees to successfully unionize at its parent company eBay.
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Activision Blizzard Is Forcing Workers Back To The Office
While the worst of the pandemic is clearly over, a few years of getting people to work from home has shown that a lot of folks are happier, and even work better, if they get to do it where they live. So decisions to force employees back into the office are understandably going to be…
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Federal Labor To Revive The Australian Interactive Games Fund, A Decade Later
The Albanese Government has announced its new National Cultural Policy, and the restoration of the Australian Interactive Games Fund almost a decade after being cut by the Abbott Government. It becomes the first major federal funding for the Australian games industry since the Gillard era. The new cultural policy, titled Revive, provides support to numerous…