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Double Fine, the first-party\u00a0Xbox game developer behind Psychonauts, is forming a union. As Aftermath<\/em> reports, the studio has filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on May 7 to form a union with the\u00a0Communications Workers of America (CWA) involving all 42\u00a0regular part-time and full-time employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n CWA told the publication that the studio made the decision to organize to “preserve and extend [its] commitments to creative excellence, diversity and inclusion, and worker quality of life.” Workers are asking Microsoft for voluntary recognition, in addition to filing an election petition with the NLRB to secure union representation. “We appreciate that Microsoft has taken a neutral approach and agreed not to interfere in any way with worker’s rights to organize unions,” the labor union said.\u00a0<\/p>\n The workers of Double Fine are following in the footsteps of other Microsoft-owned developer groups that have unionized in the past.\u00a0More than 500 World of Warcraft<\/em> workers\u00a0within Blizzard formed a union with the CWA in 2024, while the\u00a0Overwatch<\/em> team\u00a0formed a wall-to-wall union with nearly 200 developers almost a year later. The quality assurance employees of\u00a0ZeniMax Studios, perhaps best known for its work on The Elder Scrolls Online,<\/em> ratified their union agreement with Microsoft last year. And in August 2025, more than\u00a0450 Diablo<\/em> developers at Blizzard have voted to unionize with the CWA, as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n Double Fine became part of Microsoft in 2019, almost two decades are it released\u00a0Psychonauts<\/em>, a game about a young boy with psychic abilities. Under Xbox Game Studios, it released\u00a0Psychonauts 2<\/em>, Keeper<\/em>, an adventure game featuring a sentient lighthouse, and multiplayer pottery game Kiln<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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