Will Activision Blizzard workers unionize? Microsoft's deal complicates things

Raven Software helps develop the popular Call of Duty franchise for Activision Blizzard. Recently, workers there staged a weeks-long walkout to protest layoffs. Raven Software helps develop the popular Call of Duty franchise for Activision Blizzard. Recently, workers there staged a weeks-long walkout to protest layoffs. Go back to LiveJournal (LiveJournal!), and read one of the earliest and most infamous accounts of working conditions at a large video game company -- a 2004 post written by the spouse of an Electronic Arts (EA) employee -- and you'll find in the comments a healthy debate about whether or not a union would work at a video game company.