XCOM-Like Star Wars Zero Company Release Date Leaks — and It's Coming Sooner Than You Might Think

Turn-based strategy rubric Star Wars Zero Company volition motorboat successful conscionable a mates of months, a caller leak has revealed.

The ever-reliable billbil-kun astatine Dealabs has reported that the crippled volition get for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S connected August 27, conscionable a fewer days earlier an increasingly-busy September afloat of games seeking to get retired the mode of GTA 6.

More details connected Star Wars Zero Company are owed to beryllium revealed time during the Summer Game Fest showcase, though we present cognize the crippled volition get with a $49.99 Standard Edition (available carnal and digital) and a $59.99 Deluxe Edition (digital only). Contents of the Deluxe Edition are unconfirmed, though reportedly won't connection aboriginal access.

Star Wars Zero Company is being developed by XCOM veterans astatine Bit Reactor, assisted by Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order unit astatine Respawn Entertainment, and published by EA. An existing trailer reveals the crippled is acceptable during the Star Wars saga's Clone Wars, and showcase the exploits of an elite radical of mercenaries, with astatine slightest 1 lightsaber-wielding idiosyncratic arsenic good arsenic a Mandalorian.

"Command an elite squad done a gritty and authentic communicative successful Star Wars Zero Company, a single-player turn-based tactics crippled developed by Bit Reactor successful collaboration with Respawn Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games," reads a blurb for the game. "Set successful the twilight of the Clone Wars, you volition measurement into the shoes of Hawks, a erstwhile Republic serviceman who leads Zero Company — an unconventional outfit of professionals for prosecute hailing from crossed the galaxy.

"Hawks and Zero Company are recruited for an cognition that pits them against an emerging menace that volition devour the postulation if near unchecked. To succeed, Hawks volition pb a squad of uneasy allies who indispensable acceptable speech their differences to flooded astir intolerable odds."

Zero Company's precocious August merchandise feels similar a astute move, coming conscionable days up of a packed September that present includes The Blood of the Dawnwalker, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4, Marvel's Wolverine, Dune: Awakening, Control Resonant, Silent Hill: Townfall, Onimusha: Way of the Sword and the Switch 2 larboard of LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. Rayman Legends past arrives connected October 1.

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