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Report: Star Wars Zero Company developer Bit Reactor lays off an unspecified number of staff

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Report: Star Wars Zero Company developer Bit Reactor lays off an unspecified number of staff

A few months after the game's release, it looked like maybe Bit Reactor was putting itself back together, but a new report indicates that the Star Wars tactical title's developer is suffering layoffs.

Just a few months after Star Wars Zero Company developer Bit Reactor let the majority of staff go ahead of the game's launch and a few weeks after it rehired some of the furloughed workers, it seems that Bit Reactor has moved toward laying off an unspecified number of people from the company.

Citing LinkedIn posts from developers who posted their personal news on the job-searching social media platform, Star Wars news site Bespin Bulletin, which spotted these initial posts, points out that these layoffs seem to be the end result of the August furlough and were potentially some of the employees at the end of the three-month furlough process being let go. There is no evidence at present that anyone brought back from the furlough in October were let go, as Bespin Bulletin clarifies.

Bit Reactor was founded in 2022 by former Fireraxis art director Greg Foertsch and leveraged talent from Firaxis' own XCOM series for the development of Zero Company. While public sales data for the game has not been released, and may not be given that publisher Electronic Arts has been taken private, analysis firm Alinea Analytics estimates the game to have sold around one million copies by late September.

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