Performers and video game companies reach deal that ends nearly year-long strike

TOPSHOT – Protesters hold signs and picket as the SAG-AFTRA video game strike continues outside Disney Character Voices, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, in Burbank, California, August 15, 2024. Artificial intelligence was key to 2023’s Hollywood strikes, and it has now sparked a second walkout by those actors who work in a far larger industry, video games. The union on July 26, 2024, began its second strike in nine months, this time against gaming giants that dominate an industry which grosses well over $100 billion each year. (Photo by Valerie MACON / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)