IGN Unionizes: What does it mean? DICE 2024 - Ep. 353

What's Good Games: A Video Game Podcast

What's Good Games

Games, Leisure, Video Games, News, Entertainment News

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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*WE HAD AUDIO TECHNICAL ISSUES FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE EPISODE.* Sorry friends, the tech gods were not on my side. This week Andrea and Riana are on location in Las Vegas for D.I.C.E. Summit 2024. They chat about the DICE Award nominees and some quick headlines before jumping into an interview with IGN's Senior Reporter Rebekah Valentine. She discusses the newly formed IGN Creators Guild and the importance of founding a union in the video games media space. Find Rebekah's work on IGN: https://www.ign.com/person/duckvalentine Support the IGNCG by signing their petition: http://bit.ly/IGNCG-Petition Thank you to this month's Patreon Producers: Bored Ape Gamers Club Faris Attieh Joshua Franklin Justin Foshee Punkdefied Listen to WGG Ad-Free on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/whatsgoodgames Time stamps: 00:02:56 - Xbox First Party Games Rumblings 00:05:00 - Disney and Epic Form Partnership in $1.5B Deal 00:06:08 - Disney's Role in the Metaverse 00:09:03 - What are the D.I.C.E. Awards? 00:12:01 - Best Games of 2023 Honored 00:15:00 - Special Interview with Rebekah Valentine 00:15:13 - The Creation of the IGN Creators Guild 00:18:04 - Unionizing and the Positive Response 00:23:44 - Starting a Union: Where to Begin? 00:26:12 - Collective Bargaining and Job Security 00:28:43 - Working at IGN and covering events 00:31:25 - IGN Live and future events Merch: https://www.whatsgoodgames.com/store Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/whatsgood_games Follow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/whatsgoodgames Follow on Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/whatsgoodgames Join our Discord community: http://discord.gg/whatsgoodgames Follow on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/whatsgoodgamesofficial Our website: http://www.whatsgoodgames.com Follow the crew: Andrea: http://www.twitter.com/andrearene http://www.instagram.com/andrearene_ http://www.tiktok.com/@andrearene Britt: http://www.twitter.com/blondenerd http://www.instagram.com/blondenerd Riana: http://www.twitter.com/rianatweetsnow http://www.instagram.com/rianagramsnow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	good, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the What's Good Games podcast,
0:36.0	your source for video-game news commentary analysis and funny stuff every Friday.
0:40.0	I am Angel Women on location in Las Vegas Vegas with Brianna, Manuel Pena.
0:45.0	Yes, we are here at the Dice Summit 2024.
0:49.0	I've been in person getting to actually speak to people
0:52.0	not over a video camera which is so refreshing
0:54.8	IRL and enjoying the one of the first big events of the year.
0:58.8	Yes the Dice Summit is always such an exciting event because I love getting to reconnect the people
1:05.4	after like the long holiday break and kind of figuring out what people are up to and
1:09.6	it's a much different show than a lot of the other shows that you guys have seen as cover on this
1:14.2	podcast from PACs to 3 Comic Con that kind of stuff.
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