The late actor's estate gave Epic permission to use his voice, and the studio trained the character on archived clips using ElevenLabs, a text-to-speech AI voice provider, and Google's Gemini 2.0 ...

The complaint, which can be viewed here, alleges that over the last six months, Llama Productions (owned by Epic Games) has failed to bargain in good faith with SAG-AFTRA's video game actors and ...

Players can now interact with an A.I. character that uses the voice of the late James Earl Jones. But SAG-AFTRA isn't happy ...

Actors’ union SAG-AFTRA has formally accused Llama Productions, a subsidiary of Epic Games, of violating labor rights by deploying AI to replicate James Earl Jones’ iconic portrayal of Darth ...

Fortnite's AI Darth Vader Voice Draws Union Complaint The actors guild filed an unfair-labor-practice complaint against Epic Games for Fortnite's use of Darth Vader's AI voice.

Epic Games is facing union action from SAG-AFTRA due to Fortnite's recent introduction of an AI-powered Darth Vader, which delivers voice lines based on archived recordings of James Earl Jones.

Per a joint statement issued by the actors union and the video game companies party to the agreement Wednesday, SAG-AFTRA members approved the 2025 SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement by a vote ...

A union member vote is taking place on a tentative contract between video game performers and their employers, which if ratified, would formally end a nearly three-year effort from Screen Actors ...

The video game actors' strike was suspended Wednesday after a tentative deal with game publishers was announced, bringing an end to the union’s nearly yearlong walkout. The previous Interactive ...

Per a joint statement issued by the actors union and the video game companies party to the agreement Wednesday, SAG-AFTRA members approved the 2025 SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement by a vote ...

The actors union previously went on strike against the video game makers in October 2016, as the union fought for a residual compensation structure. The strike ended nearly a year later, in ...