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Star Wars Zero Company Is Selling — So Why Is Most of Bit Reactor Still Furloughed?

Bit Reactor furloughed much of the Star Wars Zero Company team before launch. Strong Steam sales now raise questions about what happens next.

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Star Wars Zero Company studio furloughed staff right before the strategy game launched due to reportedly running low on money

This is amid an ongoing lawsuit between Bit Reactor's co-founders

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The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff

Uncertainty around the TTRPG's performance is to blame.

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Saber CEO hides jab at Randy Pitchford in game trailer as payback for Pitchford dumping on Embracer: 'Without Embracer, Randy is performing magic tricks at birthday parties for a living'

I love low-stakes drama.

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The future of the Elder Scrolls Online looks rocky after culling of leadership team

ZeniMax Online Studios lead Jo Burba is among 200 cut from the studio.

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"Mojang ... will now report directly to me": Xbox CEO takes direct control of Minecraft to better compete with Roblox as Microsoft's huge gaming cuts hit

As Microsoft's mass Xbox layoffs come down, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma assumes direct oversight over Minecraft, Candy Crush, and its development teams.

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State of Decay 3 reportedly isn’t obligated to launch on Xbox Game Pass under new ownership

State of Decay 3 could have a very different future following Xbox's reported sale of Undead Labs. According to Game File, the game will not be contractually required to launch on Xbox Game Pass, raising questions about its eventual release strategy.

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Sony Backpedals on Killing Physical Games: PlayStation Continues to Make Discs, But With a Catch

Sony has backpedaled on its decision to kill physical games entirely as it will still continue to make discs. However, there is a catch

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"Microsoft had already planned to sunset": Xbox showed Senua at Xbox Games Showcase to "help draw investor interest" to Ninja Theory before studio closure

Microsoft and Xbox showed Ninja Theory's new Hellblade game Senua at Xbox Games Showcase to "help draw investor interest" ahead of plans to close it.

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Microsoft was reportedly already planning Ninja Theory split when it announced Senua at the Xbox Games Showcase, with the reveal intended to draw in investors

Senua was revealed less than two weeks ago

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Civilization 7 is profitable, says Take-Two CEO, even if they 'got it wrong' with the Ages system

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said that Civ 7 has been "a profitable enterprise" while acknowledging that they got aspects "wrong."

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Highguard was reportedly secretly funded by Tencent, and if that kind of backer can't offer more than two weeks of life I don't know what hope a multiplayer FPS has in 2026

The runway keeps getting shorter

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'They have effectively ghosted us:' publisher of delisted art game Horses lambasts Epic Games Store after executive claims 'we love that studio'

Quit horsing around.

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CoD sales fell 60% — and Kotick says the collapse proves the Microsoft buyout was the right move. Does it?

Bobby Kotick claims Call of Duty sales are down more than 60% as he defends Activision’s $69B sale to Microsoft amid a lawsuit from Swedish pension fund AP7.

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'Don’t toil away on the things that don’t really matter': Peak creator says its rapid development cycle has 'proved that there are definitely different, but maybe better ways to make games'

Peak started as a game jam, but became a smash hit.

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Valve sends annual chocolates to Steam devs who earn roughly $800,000, and before Peak the folks at Aggro Crab got pretty sick of looking across the hall to see the Slay the Spire team open Gaben candy every year

"Every year they got f***ing chocolates that we didn't"

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3 years after a $26,000 labor settlement with a Nintendo contracting firm, NOA is again accused of infringing unionization rights alongside another firm in new complaint

Nintendo of America and Teksystems are accused of violating two parts of the National Labor Relations Act

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Netflix sells the studio behind Cozy Grove back to its original owners, freeing the studio to bring its mobile life sim to other platforms

Spry Fox is an indie once again.

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Fallout co-creator and RPG mastermind Leonard Boyarsky could smack his former self "upside the head" for past comments on AI – and no, Obsidian isn't "using it at all"

Oh, how times have changed

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Assassin's Creed Shadows devs only found the confidence to rally against its "loudest haters" when Ubisoft realized "We had to stop focusing on those who hated us"

"Our goal is really to be able to ensure that our fans discover and defend what they expect from our games"

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'Assassin's Creed' Rumor Claims New Game Set in America Was Canceled Due to Politics

An Assassin's Creed game would have been set in America and fight against the KKK, but it ultimately got canceled.

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Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set around the American Civil War because of Yasuke backlash and political turmoil in the US

The game was meant to take primarily during the Reconstruction era, and would have featured a Black assassin confronting the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan.

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"It's going to get worse before it gets better": $55 billion buyout has EA employees worried, and "nothing feels great" as "layoffs usually follow those type of acquisitions"

"If better is even possible"

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Ubisoft says it has creative control over the Assassin's Creed Mirage DLC, which is set in Saudi Arabia, was announced in Saudi Arabia, and which even employees fear might be funded by Saudi Arabia

"This title update to Assassin’s Creed Mirage was made possible thanks to the support of local and international organizations"

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A Roblox farming game made by a teenager 'in like three days' had 8.9 million players online at the same time—Steam peaked at 11.5 million across all games on the same day

Grow a Garden's popularity on TikTok and YouTube suggests it's not bots.

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