Psychonauts and Kiln Developer Double Fine Files Petition to Become the Latest Microsoft Studio to Unionize

Psychonauts and Kiln Developer Double Fine Files Petition to Become the Latest Microsoft Studio to Unionize

Psychonauts and Kiln developer Double Fine Productions has laid the groundwork to become the latest Microsoft studio to form a union.As first reported by Aftermath, the San Francisco-based game studio filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board May 7, 2026. The organization effort with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) follows the 450 Blizzard Entertainment staff who voted to unionize in August 2025, and the union formed b…

Workers for Xbox studio Double Fine are forming a union

The studio behind Psychonauts is organizing with the Communications Workers of America.

Psychonauts, Kiln studio Double Fine votes to unionise

Psychonauts studio, Double Fine, is set to unionise with the Communications Workers of America (CWA).

Double Fine is the latest team at Microsoft to unionize

The studio behind Psychonauts and Keeper has filed a petition to the National Labor Relations Board.

“We want a real voice”: Why developers at Double Fine are launching a union effort and what it signals for the wider Xbox ecosystem

Double Fine employees are officially moving to unionize with support from the CWA, with Microsoft reportedly remaining neutral throughout the process.

First-party Xbox studio Double Fine is unionizing

Double Fine has filed a petition to unionize in order "to preserve and extend the studio's commitments to creative excellence, diversity and inclusion, and worker quality of life"