Nicole Carpenter is a senior reporter specializing in investigative features about labor issues in the game industry, as well as the business and culture of games. In the 21-page lawsuit ...

A recent controversy involving Darth Vader in Fortnite exposes a crucial issue on the topic of actors' likeness and AI.

A video game developer needs to hope that the Force is with it as it squares off with a union over the use of artificial intelligence in ...

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood's actors' union filed an unfair labor practice charge against Llama Productions on Monday, alleging ...

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney — the guy behind Fortnite — has been fighting Apple and Tim Cook over its App Store rules for five ...

SAG-AFTRA, the massive actors and media union with over 160,000 members, has filed an unfair labor practice charge with the ...

SAG-AFTRA has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Epic Games, alleging that use of AI to voice Darth Vader infringes on the union’s rights. SAG-AFTRA has released a statement about ...

Epic Games has faced a lot of controversy with the usage of AI Darth Vader in Fortnite, and is growing more as SAG-AFTRA gets ...

SAG-AFTRA is objecting to the use of AI to recreate the late James Earl Jones’ bass intonations of Darth Vader in Epic Games’ “Fortnite ... SAG-AFTRA filed an unfair labor practice ...

Tim Sweeney: This is really one of the issues at the ... the fruits of our labor, and that all developers can. So much of our business is not just Epic profiting from our games.

The union claims that Llama Productions failed to notify the labor group and ... for the massively popular games platform. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Epic Games, which publishes ...