Actors, Game Companies Reach Agreement

No doubt that Variety readers caught this piece of important news last week: Hollywood Unions Reach Deal with Video Game Makers.

The threat of a possible strike had been the talk of the game world for the last month, although, it had many speculating that the quality of games wouldn't suffer if actors suddenly withheld their services.

I'm not sure if that is true (that quality wouldn't suffer), but I suspect that game companies would have survived quite nicely. I think the actors believed that as well, because they settled for higher initial pay, as opposed to backend royalties.