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150-Game Discount Bundle Raises $57,000 for Videogame Workers 'Hardship Fund'
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The bundle is a direct response to an industry labor crisis that the organizers say has affected a third of the workforce in the last two years, partly due to AI-driven restructuring. It provides a concrete, union-managed financial lifeline for displaced developers facing basic needs like food and rent.
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Necrosoft Games and the United Videogame Workers-CWA union organized the bundle, which runs through August 13 with a $10 minimum.
The average contribution is $14.52 across 3,984 contributors, with proceeds going to a hardship fund for basic necessities.
The fund is limited to under-employed or out-of-work game industry workers in the US and Canada who apply through the union.
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