Striking Video-Game Actors Picket at Warner Bros. Studios

US actress Frances Fisher (C) strikes with SAG-AFTRA union video game performers outside Warner Bros. Games, part of the Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of Warner Bros. Discovery, in Burbank, California, on August 1, 2024. Artificial intelligence was key to 2023's Hollywood strikes, and it has now sparked a second walkout by those actors who work in a far larger industry, video games. The union on July 26, 2024, began its second strike in nine months, this time against gaming giants that dominate an industry which grosses well over $100 billion each year. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images

BURBANK, Calif.—Striking video game performers staged their first picketing action on Aug.1, marching outside Warner Bros. Studios to highlight a dispute they say focuses on an unwillingness from top gaming companies to protect voice actors during the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI).

The picket marked the first time striking members of the union demonstrated publicly since game voice actors and performance workers voted to strike last month.