On Friday, Fran Drescher, the President of the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), made an announcement. She revealed that the union plans to hold a vote to decide whether to go on strike against the video game industry. This vote will take place from September 5 to September 25. The current agreement, known as the "Interactive Media Agreement," between SAG-AFTRA and major video game companies like Activision Productions, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Take 2 Productions, and WB (Warner Bros) Games, expired last year.

It's important to note that if the members vote in favor of a strike, the National Board of SAG-AFTRA is not required to call for a strike. The last time SAG-AFTRA members went on strike against the video game industry was in 2016-2017. This strike, which lasted 183 days and was not supported by the union, ended with a disappointing result for voice and performance artists. They ended up with a "residual" system that doesn't depend on game sales but on how many recording sessions an actor works on for a game, with the maximum payout being just over $2,000.

While approximately 11,000 writers from the Writers Guild of America (WGA) have been on strike since May 2, only about one-third of SAG-AFTRA members joined the writers in their strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) on July 14.