“Star Wars is About Loss”: Star Wars: Zero Company Studio Reveals How Zero Company is More Than Just ‘Star Wars XCOM’
Back in February 2024, EA had a mass layoff that saw 5% of the company cut and the cancellation of an FPS Star Wars game that was in development at Respawn. That meant the only Star Wars games (that we knew of) in development under EA and Respawn were the third Star Wars Jedi game, and a tactics-focused, XCOM-like game from BitReactor, which we eventually learned was called Star Wars: Zero Company. At first glance, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Zero Company is just 'XCOM but make it Star Wars,' especially because BitReactor was founded by a bunch of [...]
