Adam Emslie
@big-dog.gay
Audio programmer working in the games industry
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Quality assurance testers at Blizzard Albany and Austin offices have reached a groundbreaking contract at Microsoft, marking the third union contract across the company's gaming studios.
Solidarity!
Solidarity!
Blizzard Quality Assurance Workers Ratify Video Game Union Contract With Microsoft
A strong majority of quality assurance workers at Blizzard’s Albany and Austin locations overwhelmingly voted to ratify a union contract at Microsoft, ensuring lasting protections in the workplace.
cwa-union.org
February 2, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Quality assurance testers at Blizzard Albany and Austin offices have reached a groundbreaking contract at Microsoft, marking the third union contract across the company's gaming studios.
Solidarity!
Solidarity!
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Why are we teaching our children to make use of systems that make them less creative, educated and discerning?!
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Why are we teaching our children to make use of systems that make them less creative, educated and discerning?!
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Hey all, I'm open to work for roles in the Games Industry, would appreciate any shares!
🖥️ Experienced with several programming languages, tools and game engines - primary experience with C#
⭐ Experience with small and big teams alike, including AAA experience @ Rockstar Games on GTA VI
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🖥️ Experienced with several programming languages, tools and game engines - primary experience with C#
⭐ Experience with small and big teams alike, including AAA experience @ Rockstar Games on GTA VI
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January 19, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Hey all, I'm open to work for roles in the Games Industry, would appreciate any shares!
🖥️ Experienced with several programming languages, tools and game engines - primary experience with C#
⭐ Experience with small and big teams alike, including AAA experience @ Rockstar Games on GTA VI
1/2...
🖥️ Experienced with several programming languages, tools and game engines - primary experience with C#
⭐ Experience with small and big teams alike, including AAA experience @ Rockstar Games on GTA VI
1/2...
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NEW: Following an employment tribunal that saw a group of fired Rockstar union workers denied interim relief, I asked a UK employment solicitor to explain how the mechanism works and why the threshold for success is so high.
Why would a UK judge deny fired Rockstar workers interim relief?
Kuits specialist employment solicitor, Jake McManus, breaks down the legal mechanism after a group of ousted Rockstar devs were denied interim pay.
www.gamedeveloper.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:12 PM
NEW: Following an employment tribunal that saw a group of fired Rockstar union workers denied interim relief, I asked a UK employment solicitor to explain how the mechanism works and why the threshold for success is so high.
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Great coverage of this. The "top secret" information was...that they wanted to get 32 testers to test *something*. RS's barrister wouldn't even discuss these messages out loud in court, but it seems RS forgot or didn't care to apply to restrict reporters from accessing this evidence.
We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Great coverage of this. The "top secret" information was...that they wanted to get 32 testers to test *something*. RS's barrister wouldn't even discuss these messages out loud in court, but it seems RS forgot or didn't care to apply to restrict reporters from accessing this evidence.
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People Make Games has yet again done an incredible job covering Rockstar firing 34 union workers and has gone in depth with the evidence presented by Rockstar.
One employee had a single message that was evidence for why they should be fired.
One employee had a single message that was evidence for why they should be fired.
We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
People Make Games has yet again done an incredible job covering Rockstar firing 34 union workers and has gone in depth with the evidence presented by Rockstar.
One employee had a single message that was evidence for why they should be fired.
One employee had a single message that was evidence for why they should be fired.
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BREAKING: A UK judge has *denied* interim pay to the 31 employees fired by Rockstar Games last year, saying she "was unable to conclude that it appears likely that the tribunal will find that the principal reason for the claimants’ dismissal" was union organizing www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Fired Rockstar Employees Denied Pay by UK Judge
The 31 staffers argued they were dismissed for unionizing. Rockstar said they were fired for leaking information in an online chat group.
www.bloomberg.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:49 PM
BREAKING: A UK judge has *denied* interim pay to the 31 employees fired by Rockstar Games last year, saying she "was unable to conclude that it appears likely that the tribunal will find that the principal reason for the claimants’ dismissal" was union organizing www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Our statement concerning the decision to not grant interim pay relief to the member's fired by Rockstar. We remain confident in the strength of our case against Rockstar Games and we reiterate our firm belief that Rockstar broke the law when it summarily dismissed 31 union members.
January 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Our statement concerning the decision to not grant interim pay relief to the member's fired by Rockstar. We remain confident in the strength of our case against Rockstar Games and we reiterate our firm belief that Rockstar broke the law when it summarily dismissed 31 union members.
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This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
Larian CEO says Divinity could have gen AI assets in it but only if the tools are trained on the studio's own data.
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
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This is perhaps a good time to mention that I attended this preliminary hearing at the start of the week, met some of the fired union members in its aftermath and have been able to review Rockstar's evidence in-person for myself.
We'll have more to share once the result has been announced.
We'll have more to share once the result has been announced.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 PM
This is perhaps a good time to mention that I attended this preliminary hearing at the start of the week, met some of the fired union members in its aftermath and have been able to review Rockstar's evidence in-person for myself.
We'll have more to share once the result has been announced.
We'll have more to share once the result has been announced.
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hell yeah the XIVLauncher fellas are running a fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders during patch downtime tilt.fyi/ChBWKu9opP
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tilt.fyi
December 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
hell yeah the XIVLauncher fellas are running a fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders during patch downtime tilt.fyi/ChBWKu9opP
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The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has responded to Rockstar's justification for dismissing over 30 employees in October
www.gamesindustry.biz/union-claims...
www.gamesindustry.biz/union-claims...
Union claims Rockstar's justification of dismissals is "littered with falsehoods and disinformation"
Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain alleges developer is "attempting to reverse engineer a rationale" for the mass firing
www.gamesindustry.biz
December 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has responded to Rockstar's justification for dismissing over 30 employees in October
www.gamesindustry.biz/union-claims...
www.gamesindustry.biz/union-claims...
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Our statement on the recent layoffs affecting workers at Coatsink, Splash Damage, Glowmade & Square Enix, putting over 300 workers at risk of redundancy in the run up to Christmas.
If you work in the UK games industry, join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...
If you work in the UK games industry, join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...
December 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Our statement on the recent layoffs affecting workers at Coatsink, Splash Damage, Glowmade & Square Enix, putting over 300 workers at risk of redundancy in the run up to Christmas.
If you work in the UK games industry, join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...
If you work in the UK games industry, join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...
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I added this popup extension to my browser so it's even easier to see when opening a steam page: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...
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Download AI warning for Steam for Firefox. Show the AI Generated Content Disclosure on Steam store pages as a modal popup.
addons.mozilla.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I added this popup extension to my browser so it's even easier to see when opening a steam page: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...
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my partner and i can no longer buy a home together because they were fired by Rockstar, without warning,
*checks notes*
for talking about working conditions with their colleagues in a private union discord server.
🙂
*checks notes*
for talking about working conditions with their colleagues in a private union discord server.
🙂
EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
my partner and i can no longer buy a home together because they were fired by Rockstar, without warning,
*checks notes*
for talking about working conditions with their colleagues in a private union discord server.
🙂
*checks notes*
for talking about working conditions with their colleagues in a private union discord server.
🙂
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EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
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I spoke on the Notes From Below podcast this week about unions and the choices @gameworkers.co.uk made to be an organizing union instead of a service based one.
I also spoke about the Rockstar situation and the games industry at large! Have a listen if you fancy.
pocketcasts.com/podcast/work...
I also spoke about the Rockstar situation and the games industry at large! Have a listen if you fancy.
pocketcasts.com/podcast/work...
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I spoke on the Notes From Below podcast this week about unions and the choices @gameworkers.co.uk made to be an organizing union instead of a service based one.
I also spoke about the Rockstar situation and the games industry at large! Have a listen if you fancy.
pocketcasts.com/podcast/work...
I also spoke about the Rockstar situation and the games industry at large! Have a listen if you fancy.
pocketcasts.com/podcast/work...
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The IWGB has just announced that 220 letters, signed by Rockstar staff, have now been delivered to leadership at the company, demanding the immediate reinstatement of their fired colleagues.
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The IWGB has just announced that 220 letters, signed by Rockstar staff, have now been delivered to leadership at the company, demanding the immediate reinstatement of their fired colleagues.
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The IWGB has issued legal claims against Rockstar for firing 30+ workers.
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iwgb.org.uk/en/post/iwgb...
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iwgb.org.uk/en/post/iwgb...
IWGB Issues Legal Claims Against Rockstar Over Unfair Dismissal of Staff
* The IWGB has issued claims against Rockstar Games for unfairly dismissing
staff [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nOwjeznjI&t=3s] for union activity
and blacklisting its members.
* This lega...
iwgb.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The IWGB has issued legal claims against Rockstar for firing 30+ workers.
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iwgb.org.uk/en/post/iwgb...
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iwgb.org.uk/en/post/iwgb...
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We won't let Rockstar break our union and we won't be intimidated - support our campaign here:
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We won't let Rockstar break our union and we won't be intimidated - support our campaign here:
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
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“Say sorry, be nice is a Rockstar slogan, it has been for many, many years. At least in this instance, it doesn’t seem like the company is interested in living by it.”
Watch the video of our demonstration & interviews with dismissed workers at Rockstar North here!
Watch the video of our demonstration & interviews with dismissed workers at Rockstar North here!
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Say sorry, be nice is a Rockstar slogan, it has been for many, many years. At least in this instance, it doesn’t seem like the company is interested in living by it.”
Watch the video of our demonstration & interviews with dismissed workers at Rockstar North here!
Watch the video of our demonstration & interviews with dismissed workers at Rockstar North here!
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The Devil (and the bosses) work fast, but sometimes @chrisbratt.bsky.social works faster.
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The Devil (and the bosses) work fast, but sometimes @chrisbratt.bsky.social works faster.
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Support the video game workers who were unfairly fired by Rockstar for unionizing: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Support Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals!
Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...
actionnetwork.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Support the video game workers who were unfairly fired by Rockstar for unionizing: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
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🪈 Alicia from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Flute cover ft. Grace Fiacco.
I had to make a Flute cover of this song, as it just perfectly fits the instrument! 😍
#Expedition33
I had to make a Flute cover of this song, as it just perfectly fits the instrument! 😍
#Expedition33
May 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🪈 Alicia from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Flute cover ft. Grace Fiacco.
I had to make a Flute cover of this song, as it just perfectly fits the instrument! 😍
#Expedition33
I had to make a Flute cover of this song, as it just perfectly fits the instrument! 😍
#Expedition33