REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Electronic Arts said on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, that Star Wars Zero Company is now available on PC via the EA app, Steam, and the Epic Games Store, and on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles, even as reporting says Bit Reactor furloughed most of the developers who built it before launch.

EA's newsroom post, dated Sept. 1, presents the release as available today. The company, Bit Reactor, and Lucasfilm Games had previously set a street date of Aug. 27, 2026, in a June 5 Business Wire release. Tuesday's post lists the Digital Deluxe Edition at $59.99 on PC and $69.99 on consoles, and a Collector's Edition at $299.99. A Gordy Haab soundtrack is out via Walt Disney Records.

"After all these years of hard work from our amazing team, Star Wars Zero Company is a go for launch," Greg Foertsch, Bit Reactor's game director and CEO, said in the EA post. Douglas Reilly, vice president and general manager of Lucasfilm Games, said the studio's genre veterans brought "a fresh perspective to this debut title."

The single-player turn-based tactics game is set in the twilight of the Clone Wars. Players lead Hawks and Zero Company against the Infinite Coil, a Separatist-aligned cult headed by Kundri Fathom, before a "Shadow Plague" can consume the galaxy, EA said.

Kotaku, citing a Game File report, said as many as 80 percent of Bit Reactor's staff were furloughed without pay in the weeks before the Aug. 27 launch, leaving a skeleton crew for post-release bugs. A studio representative confirmed the furloughs to Game File but did not confirm the headcount. Former Bit Reactor developer Zachariah Scott wrote on LinkedIn that it was "sick and weird" for EA, Disney, and Bit Reactor senior staff to celebrate reviews while, he said, concealing that the team had been furloughed. Kotaku said the game posted the highest Metacritic score of any Star Wars title at launch since Knights of the Old Republic II in 2004.

The same report noted a lawsuit by former Bit Reactor COO Alison Kelly against Foertsch over ownership and termination. Foertsch's lawyers have rejected those claims. The dispute is not set for trial until 2027.

A publisher can put "now available" on the newsroom the same week a studio parks most of its payroll. Reviews do not cover rent. Furlough is a management choice, not a law. Players get a tactics game. The people who made it get an unpaid waiting room.

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