The developers of Magic: The Gathering Arena are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). In a public announcement today, a group of Wizards of the Coast (WOTC) employees announced they had a supermajority of individuals committed to a union, and invited WOTC and parent company Hasbro to voluntarily recognize the union and to remain neutral during ongoing unionization efforts. Speaking to Kotaku , senior software engineers Valentine Powell and Neil White shared that the group began unionizing a few years ago, with efforts initially sparked by two back-to-back rounds of mass layoffs that impacted around 2,000 individuals across all of Hasbro—just under one-third of the entire company—including many at Wizards of the Coast (an additional 3 percent of the company was laid off in 2025 ). It was after that first round of layoffs that talks began, but White tells me that internal pushes for return to office were what really accelerated the effort.…