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According to Game File and multiple outlets, Bit Reactor placed up to 80% of its employees on unpaid leave weeks before Star Wars Zero Company launched on August 27. A studio spokesperson confirmed the furloughs to Game File and said the call was Bit Reactor's alone.

EA has officially confirmed that a roughly two-and-a-half-minute clip of in-development Iron Man gameplay — watermarked 'AUG26 TEST' — is genuine, ending four years of near-silence on the EA Motive project with a one-line statement from the game's dormant X account.