Following up on yesterdays rather droopy entry, today's two entries from Variety magazine's The Cut Scene gaming blog, seem to project a hopeful, and recession-unaffected, future for the gaming industry. Or not.
Basically, there is first the news logged on the site last week announcing that visual marketing monolith 20th Century Fox (who are well-versed in marketing their own TV and film properties through video game licensing) is dipping its feet into the gaming pool by launching a full-scale gaming division. Appointed vice president of the new sector is former head of Vivendi Games Andre Emerson and it appears the studio will not continue to in-house their own licensed titles but also sire original titles. The move is basically in an effort to outrun the necessity to buy independent video game studios and thereby squeeze past that there is much less cash to throw around for such a venture. So, I guess as it goes, even in a recession, the rich just get richer. What will the decision of studios like Fox do to the little guys? That remains to be seen. Check out the full article here: Fox Gets Serious About Video Games
The second article coming off Cut Scene, is one where SAG and AFTRA actors, those affiliated with gaming production, and especially ones who spend extensive hours straining their vocal chords for gaming action sequences and even overdubbing for multiple character, will get a 2.5 percent pay scale bump as well a couple of other benefits including:
A 0.5 percent increase in the pension and health contribution rate for Screen Actors Guild member effective upon ratification, and another 0.2 percent on January 1, 2010, for both unions (bringing the total rate to 15 percent).
The second article coming off Cut Scene, is one where SAG and AFTRA actors, those affiliated with gaming production, and especially ones who spend extensive hours straining their vocal chords for gaming action sequences and even overdubbing for multiple character, will get a 2.5 percent pay scale bump as well a couple of other benefits including:
* A 0.5 percent increase in the pension and health contribution rate for Screen Actors Guild member effective upon ratification, and another 0.2 percent on January 1, 2010, for both unions (bringing the total rate to 15 percent).
* The establishment of a $100 liquidated damage for failure to give notice of vocally stressful work.
* An agreement to develop during the term of the contract a set of guidelines for conducting vocally stressful work.
No word on the bottom of who's wallet the additional dollars and cents were scrubbed from, but, you can check out the full article here: AFTRA, SAG Strike New Deal With Game Makers
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