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Respawn Entertainment & Bit Reactor to Showcase "Star Wars Turn-based Tactics Game" on April 19

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Back in January 2022, Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm Games announced a new "Star Wars strategy game." Press material revealed a production collaboration between Respawn Entertainment and Bit Reactor. The latter party was described as a: "newly formed studio, helmed by games industry veteran Greg Foerstch (ex-Firaxis Games). Respawn will produce the new Star Wars strategy game while Bit Reactor leads on the development of the title." EA's PR piece did not go into major detail, given the very early nature of the generically monikered strategy project. In the interim, Bit Reactor has spent just over three years of production time on their mystery title. Last Friday, the official Star Wars website published a schedule for next month's Celebration LIVE! Japan event.

Eagle-eyed journos and fans soon noticed an intriguing entry, titled: "Bit Reactor Developer Panel featuring Respawn Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games." The April 19 early Saturday evening slot—4:30PM to 5:30PM, Live on the Galaxy Stage—will be dedicated to a "first look at a new Star Wars turn-based tactics game." According to reports from last summer, Greg Foerstch and fourteen other former Firaxis team members are involved in the making of the EA/Lucasfilm's unnamed Star Wars turn-based IP. Interestingly, a Bit Reactor 2024 blog post goes to great lengths in explaining that there is more to their internal makeup than being mere "XCOM" veterans. The scope of Respawn Entertainment's involvement is not clear, but Vince Zampella's studio is primarily working on an untitled Star Wars Jedi: Survivor sequel. Earlier on in March, an ex-employee leak indicated the unfortunate cancelation of an unannounced first-person shooter game. Industry watchdogs believe that the now dissolved Respawn "new game incubation team" was tasked with the creation of a Titanfall multiplayer prototype.



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Really hope it's good, at first I expected a RTS game but a turn-based à la Xcom can really be neat
 
Well, given that Bit Reactor has not made a game before, and given EA's history, I'm not going to hold my breath.
 
Well, given that Bit Reactor has not made a game before, and given EA's history, I'm not going to hold my breath.


The CEO of Bit Reactor is actually a gamer so I wouldnt rule him out yet.

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He's more creative and gamer bro than Andrew Wilson. Although thats not exactly a difficult bar to beat.
 
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ooooeerrr exciting
 
Fingers crossed.
 
Well, given that Bit Reactor has not made a game before, and given EA's history, I'm not going to hold my breath.

Apparently they're made up of XCOM and Firafix people.
 
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