{"id":88681,"date":"2026-09-01T19:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88681"},"modified":"2026-09-01T23:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:38:05","slug":"star-wars-zero-company-was-originally-pitched-as-a-titanfall-universe-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88681","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Zero Company Was Originally Pitched as a Titanfall Universe Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/star-wars-zero-company\">Star Wars Zero Company<\/a> was originally pitched as a game in the Titanfall universe.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a larger report on Star Wars Zero Company, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/stephentotilo\/p\/star-wars-zero-company-bit-reactor-furloughs-lawsuit?r=1mkafp&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email\">Game File&#8217;s Stephen Totilo<\/a> uncovered a lot of interesting details about the game&#8217;s development. The big headline was that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-studio-behind-hit-new-star-wars-game-zero-company-quietly-furloughed-most-staff-just-before-launch\">the bulk of the studio was furloughed just weeks before launch<\/a> as Bit Reactor ran out of money, but there&#8217;s hope that those employees will be brought back following the game&#8217;s success. However, there is one other bit that caught some eyes: Zero Company wasn&#8217;t initially imagined as a Star Wars game.<\/p>\n<p>Game File dug up legal documents pertaining to a lawsuit between Bit Reactor leadership which paints a picture of Zero Company&#8217;s development. Director Greg Foertsch worked with studio co-founder Alison Kelly to develop pitches for a tactics game, which eventually landed a meeting with Respawn Entertainment co-founder Vince Zampella. The late gaming executive asked Foertsch to make a pitch based on Respawn&#8217;s own IP, which would&#8217;ve meant the game would be connected to the Titanfall universe.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"star-wars-zero-company-official-final-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>Game File notes the pitch was directly linked to Apex Legends, which is set in the Titanfall universe, but it&#8217;s unclear if the signature mechs would&#8217;ve returned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Wars Zero Company was originally pitched as a game in the Titanfall universe. As part of a larger report on Star Wars Zero Company, Game File&#8217;s Stephen Totilo uncovered a lot of interesting details about the game&#8217;s development. The big headline was that the bulk of the studio was furloughed just weeks before launch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":88683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88685,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88681\/revisions\/88685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}