{"id":90782,"date":"2026-10-07T13:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90782"},"modified":"2026-10-07T14:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:43:19","slug":"star-wars-zero-company-developer-sees-portion-of-furloughed-workers-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90782","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Zero Company Developer Sees Portion Of Furloughed Workers Return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Star Wars Zero Company released in late August to great reviews, but its launch was bittersweet, as a large chunk of developer Bit Reactor&#8217;s staff was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/star-wars-zero-company-developers-were-furloughed-before-the-game-even-released\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/star-wars-zero-company-developers-were-furloughed-before-the-game-even-released\/\">furloughed<\/a>, unsure if they would be returning to work. For at least a portion of them, however, that uncertainty is over, as they&#8217;re back at the studio. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefile.news\/p\/star-wars-zero-company-furloughs-update\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamefile.news\/p\/star-wars-zero-company-furloughs-update\">Game File<\/a>, Bit Reactor CEO Greg Foertsch said the studio had &#8220;started the process of returning more of our team back to work&#8221; but stopped short of giving specific percentages or figures. Game File&#8217;s sources said the headcount following this return is more than half of what is was pre-furlough, but it&#8217;s unclear when or if more staff will return in the future. A lawsuit involving Foertsch and co-founder Alison Kelly is currently ongoing, as well. <\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QmrvlMbozAs  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Games in genres as niche as turn-based tactics can sometimes struggle to make a major impact, but Star Wars Zero Company is about as good as these games get. Alongside a surprisingly approachable prequel-era story, the game mixes classic XCOM-style combat with some unique Star Wars twists, like force-pulling enemies out of cover so they can be obliterated by your blasters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Wars Zero Company released in late August to great reviews, but its launch was bittersweet, as a large chunk of developer Bit Reactor&#8217;s staff was furloughed, unsure if they would be returning to work. For at least a portion of them, however, that uncertainty is over, as they&#8217;re back at the studio. Speaking to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":90784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90782","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\/90782"}],"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\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90785,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90782\/revisions\/90785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}