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Zero Company Left If You Furlough Everyone (with Stephen Totilo)

Sep 4, 2026 · 1h 32m

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On this week’s episode, Chris and Luke are joined by Stephen Totilo, formerly everybody’s boss at Kotaku and currently breaking stories at GameFile. The latest scoop is about Bit Reactor, developers of the latest inheritor of the “XCOM-like” crown, Star Wars Zero Company – and how most of the people who worked on it have been left in employment limbo, despite releasing the game to stellar reviews. But covering all of that left Stephen with little time to review the actual game, so it’s up to noted tactics-heads Chris & Luke to tell us how the game actually stacks up. And then while Stephen hops off to put his kids to bed, Chris and Luke will stick around for some Mailbag questions about…