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Galactic Racer is out: over 11,000 on Steam, what players say, and what's broken
Star Wars: Galactic Racer had 11,257 people playing on Steam at 11am Central on launch day, with Steam reviews at 77% positive. The big complaint is that PC players cannot rebind keys. Here are the numbers, the known issues and who should wait.
Galactic Racer unlocks at 4am Central Tuesday: preload, Steam Deck, PC specs and what to know tonight
Star Wars: Galactic Racer unlocks everywhere at 09:00 UTC on Tuesday, October 6, with no early access. Reviews are in at 87 on OpenCritic. A PS5 preload is reported but not on the store page, Steam and Xbox show none, and Steam Deck is still unrated.
Galactic Racer reviews are in: critics love the racing and the roguelike campaign
The embargo lifted Friday morning, four days before launch, and the scores sit in the high 80s. Critics praise the handling, the sense of speed and the run-based campaign; the complaints are repeating planets, hard-to-read tracks and a thin story payoff. What it means for your preorder.
The best Star Wars deals in the Steam Autumn Sale 2026
Jedi: Survivor is $10.49 and Squadrons, KOTOR and KOTOR II are $3.99 each in the Steam Autumn Sale, through October 8. Every Star Wars game on Steam checked, what is not discounted, and where GOG is still cheaper.
SWTOR producer letter: the DX12 interface is done, and 8.0 still has no date
Broadsword's Q3 letter says SWTOR's interface now runs on DirectX 12 and a player technical test is coming. Expansion 8.0 still has no release date.
Zero Company got a PC-only crash hotfix on September 28, with one line of notes
EA pushed a Zero Company hotfix to PC on Monday, September 28, the first update since patch 1.1 on September 9. The whole note is one sentence about a crash on unspecified hardware, the download is about 6GB, there is no version number and no console build, and the Intel 13th and 14th gen thread is unchanged.
Galactic Racer review copies are out, eight days from launch, with no embargo date yet
Reviewers and creators have the full game as of the weekend, and nobody has named an embargo date. No preload, no Steam Deck rating and no recommended spec either. Kris Laudrum voices Kestar Bool. Nothing here changes the preorder advice.
Zero Company, one month on: Sunday peaks down 90 percent, one patch, a million sold
Five Sundays after launch, Zero Company peaked at 7,524 players on Steam, a tenth of launch weekend. The rest of Star Wars now outdraws it two to one, there has been no patch since September 9, and it is still a commercial hit. Whether to buy now, and whether to wait for the Autumn Sale.
Galactic Racer names its voice cast, and Gordy Haab is on the score
Lucy Montgomery voices Hibi, Andrew James Spooner voices League founder Darius Pax, and the Battlefront II and Squadrons composer wrote a 21-track soundtrack out October 6. Kestar Bool's actor is next.
SWTOR 7.9.1c brings the Hidden Chain invasions back, but only until 8.0
Yesterday's small SWTOR patch switched the Hidden Chain invasions back on for Tatooine, Hoth, Rishi and Ilum. They switch off for good when 8.0 launches, so farm the armor now.
Zero Company has passed a million copies, an analyst estimates, and 70 percent of them are on Steam
Alinea Analytics estimates Star Wars Zero Company has sold more than a million copies for about $50 million since August 27, with 69.9 percent on Steam. EA has not released a sales figure. Here is how the estimate lines up with the Steam player counts we track.
Zero Company's fourth week: 11,538 on Steam, and the rest of Star Wars has passed it
The rest of Star Wars on Steam overtook Zero Company at 6:50am Central on Tuesday and has led at every reading since Thursday. Saturday topped out at 11,538, down 40 percent on a week earlier, and our forecast was too high for the third week running.
Zero Company's Steam lead over the rest of Star Wars came within 58 players of gone
Monday afternoon our tracker read 8,141 players in Zero Company and 8,083 across every other Star Wars game on Steam combined. Three weeks after launch the gap is 58 players, and in 141 readings it has never actually closed.
The KOTOR remake and Eclipse made Lucasfilm's 2026 reel, on 2021 footage
Lucasfilm Games put the KOTOR remake and Star Wars Eclipse in its 2026 sizzle reel on Saturday. Both are still officially in the lineup, and neither showed a frame of anything new.
Zero Company's third Sunday: 20,115 on Steam, a patch that brought nobody back, and the rest of Star Wars is catching up
The third Sunday peaked at 20,115 concurrent players, down from 35,430 a week earlier, and patch 1.1 produced no spike at all. Our week-two forecast missed on both ends, the daily floor has dropped under 8,000, and the game's lead over every other Star Wars title combined has shrunk from 2.2 to one to 1.2 to one.
Zero Company squads, round two: Senate Guards, Delta Squad and a clone fan in a surplus helmet, and this time the mods are doing the work
Seven more of the most upvoted squads on r/ZeroCompany, embedded from the people who made them. The difference from round one: half of them use armour the game does not ship with, and the subreddit's loudest complaint is now about everyone who is not a clone.
Zero Company patch 1.1 fixes the saves, the crashes and the 100 percent miss, and leaves the balance alone
Patch 1.1 reached every platform on September 9 with 62 changes: save corruption, the Beskar Mode crash, missing preorder items and the 100 percent shot that could miss. Cly, the Coil and the economy are untouched, and a few damage-bug fixes quietly close popular exploits.
Last call: Zero Company's $300 Collector's Edition closes Sunday night, and the case for it got weaker
Preorders for the $299.99 Limited Run set end Sunday, September 13 at 11:59pm ET, with no restock. Two weeks of reviews and player numbers later, the game is a 9 and the box still ships in spring 2027. Who should still buy it, and why the furlough story changes the math for everyone else.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is four weeks out. Here is everything confirmed, and what still is not
Gone gold on August 20, $59.99 on October 6, four vehicle classes, a roguelike campaign, 12-player Tour mode with crossplay, and Sebulba. Also what Fuse Games has not said: track count, roster, review embargo, Steam Deck. The pre-launch file, updated as it changes.
Zero Company's second Sunday: 35,430 on Steam, and our forecast was wrong
We said Sunday would land between 38,000 and 42,000. It landed at 35,430, the weekend lift was 5 percent instead of 20, and Labor Day did nothing. Twelve days of readings, what the game has settled into, and why it dropped from first to eighth on Steam's sellers chart.
The squads Zero Company players are building: Power Rangers, the Beatles, and a Mandalorian who sells burgers
Seven of the most upvoted squads from r/ZeroCompany's first nine days, embedded from their creators, with why each one is worth the click and what they say about the customization system Bit Reactor built.
What Zero Company players are complaining about after week one, and what the first patch is supposed to fix
Nine days of the subreddit, sorted by upvotes: a Mandalorian who breaks Expert, a main enemy that soaks whole turns, not enough missions for the roster, no post-game, a tight economy, timers on everything, and a bug list EA has pinned. Plus the patch Bit Reactor promised for next week.
Zero Company's slide is levelling off: Friday was the first up-day since launch weekend
Nine days of readings. Friday afternoon's 33,630 beat Thursday's high for the first day-over-day gain since the Sunday peak, and the overnight floor fell under 4% for the second day running. The weekday drop that halved the game in a week has slowed to a crawl.
Most of Bit Reactor was furloughed before Zero Company launched. Here is what is known, and what it means if you are buying
Game File reported on Monday that the studio behind the best-reviewed Star Wars game in 22 years furloughed most of its staff, without pay, weeks before launch. Bit Reactor confirmed it. We lay out what is on the record, what is not, and why leaving a negative review is the wrong way to help.
Star Wars Battlefront II player count in 2026: is it still active?
Yes, and by more than you would expect for a nine-year-old shooter EA stopped updating in 2020. We counted Battlefront II every two hours for nine days. Here is the real population, and the platform trap that decides whether you get a match.
Zero Company's first week on Steam: down by half, still three times the rest of Star Wars
We counted Star Wars: Zero Company every couple of hours from launch day to day seven. The peak has halved since Sunday. It is still outdrawing every other Star Wars game on Steam combined, by more than three to one.
Star Wars Squadrons player count: is it dead in 2026?
We have counted Squadrons on Steam since August. Even at $3.99 for its sixth birthday it peaks around 100 players at once and drops into the twenties overnight. Here is what that means if you want to buy it and fly.
SWTOR player count: how many people still play in 2026?
We counted Star Wars: The Old Republic every two hours for nine days. Between 2,200 and 6,400 people on Steam at any time, and Steam is only part of the story.
Star Wars Jedi 3 release date: everything we know
No date, no title, no trailer. What Respawn has actually confirmed about the third Cal Kestis game, every rumor labeled, and why December 2026 is not it.
Star Wars Eclipse release date: everything we know
No release date, no window, and a studio in trouble. Every confirmed fact about Quantic Dream's Star Wars Eclipse, and every rumor labeled as one.
Zero Company's biggest day was Sunday, not launch day
Our tracker caught 75,825 players on Sunday evening, higher than Saturday and higher than launch night. Four days in, the peak is still climbing.
Zero Company has more Steam players than the rest of Star Wars combined
We counted Saturday: 40,546 in Zero Company at breakfast, 74,282 by mid afternoon, past launch night. Twelve other Star Wars games never hit 16,000 combined.
Zero Company beat Jedi: Survivor on Steam. LEGO still beats them both.
Zero Company peaked at 69,046 concurrent Steam players, passing Jedi: Survivor's 67,583. Biggest launch for a non-LEGO Star Wars game, not the biggest ever.
Galactic Racer's multiplayer videos are everywhere, and Tour mode is why
An overview trailer, hands-on captures, and a Gamescom booth put Galactic Racer's online half front and center: 12 racers, six races, and side bets.
Our first hour with Zero Company: two crashes, zero regrets
We streamed our first 50 minutes of Star Wars Zero Company on launch day. It crashed twice, and we still didn't want to stop playing. Early session notes.
Zero Company hit 53,000 Steam players in its first hour
Zero Company passed 53,000 concurrent Steam players within an hour of unlocking, plus 48,000 watching on Twitch. Five times every other Star Wars game combined.
Zero Company streams are live a day early, and chat is naming the operators
Creators with early access are streaming Star Wars Zero Company on Twitch and YouTube a day before launch, and some are letting chat name their squad.
Streams of early Zero Company copies are getting wiped, hours before it stops mattering
Early-copy owners keep streaming Zero Company on Twitch, and their channels keep hitting the copyright-removal screen. Launch is tomorrow at 3pm UTC.
The most popular Star Wars game in the world is not a Star Wars game
We chased the player numbers across PC, mobile, and Fortnite. Which Star Wars game is biggest depends on how you count, and one answer is uncomfortable.
Two hours of Zero Company gameplay leaked, and vanished within the hour
An early-copy owner posted nearly two hours of campaign footage to Reddit and a copyright claim killed it fast. What viewers saw, 48 hours before launch.
Zero Company's $300 Collector's Edition just got three more weeks
Limited Run quietly moved the preorder deadline from August 23 to September 13, past launch day. No reason given, but we have a guess. Your wallet wins.
Zero Company discs are already in the wild, and they boot
A PS5 owner got a retail copy from Amazon Canada three days early, posted video of it running, and is a few missions in. Time to go into spoiler lockdown.
The Star Wars games people are actually playing right now
We pulled live Steam and Twitch numbers for 21 Star Wars games three days before Zero Company launches. SWTOR is surging, and a 2006 RTS beats Jedi: Survivor.
Zero Company: everything to know before Thursday
Star Wars: Zero Company launches Thursday, August 27 at 3pm UTC with no early access. Prices, editions, preload, PC specs, and what preordering gets you.
Galactic Racer has gone gold
Fuse Games' podracer is finished and locked for October 6, a debut title from the ex-Criterion studio, with edition details now confirmed.
Fortnite's Smuggler's Gambit links to the actual Millennium Falcon ride
The new co-op Star Wars island stars Hondo Ohnaka, and riding Smugglers Run at a Disney park with linked accounts turns your score into in-game credits.
Star Wars Eclipse just resurfaced at D23. Sort of
Quantic Dream's game showed a trailer at the Lucasfilm Pavilion, its first public appearance in years. Fans say it looks like a longer cut of the 2021 reveal.
Zero Company previews are in: 15 hours played, and the word is 'polished'
The hands-on embargo lifted: outlets report a 30 to 40 hour campaign, permadeath, and a base-building layer called the Den. Sixteen days out, signs are good.
Jedi 3 rumor: a time jump, and a much older Cal Kestis
An Insider Gaming report says Jedi 3 opens years after Survivor, maybe a bigger gap than the five years between the first two games. Unconfirmed by Respawn.
Galactic Racer shows 15 minutes of gameplay, and a roguelite twist
A new showcase reveals how Star Wars: Galactic Racer's campaign actually works: League Entry Tokens, a roguelite structure, and a new arena called Derven Acos.
SWTOR's next expansion is 'Masters of the Force,' and the test server is live
The livestream detailed expansion 8.0: toggleable overworld difficulty, new Ventures, holiday 2026, and a PTS build the same day. Update 7.9.1 lands August 4.
Zero Company's $299.99 Collector's Edition comes with a thermal detonator
The SDCC panel delivered: a Black Series thermal detonator replica headlines the Collector's Edition, preorders run to August 23, and the first single is out.
Zero Company's voice cast: the clones sound right
Dee Bradley Baker, the voice of every clone trooper since 2008, leads Star Wars: Zero Company's cast, revealed ahead of the game's San Diego Comic-Con panel.
KOTOR Remake week: a Saber exec says 2028, insiders say re-reveal soon
Saber's business chief floated the KOTOR Remake in a busy 2028 lineup, and a separate report claims a re-reveal before the end of 2026. Both carry asterisks.
You can now powerwash the Millennium Falcon
PowerWash Simulator 2's Star Wars Pack is out: $9.99 for six original-trilogy jobs, from Lars' Homestead to the bridge of the Executor. Sand included.
A job listing just told us more about Jedi 3 than EA has all year
Respawn is hiring a Narrative Designer for the Star Wars Jedi team: real confirmation work continues, and a strong hint the game is further out than fans hoped.
Quantic Dream says Eclipse is fine. The strike says otherwise
After June's walkout, Quantic Dream says Star Wars Eclipse is going according to plan, and confirmed it is also building a competitive multiplayer game.
The Steam Summer Sale's best Star Wars deals, sorted
Jedi: Survivor at $13.99 headlines the 2026 Steam Summer Sale. What's actually worth buying before July 9, and what to skip.
Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes vs. Villains is out today
Ubisoft's team-based Star Wars Monopoly launches on PC, PS5, Xbox, Switch, and Switch 2, with a 28-character roster of board-bending abilities.
Star Wars Eclipse devs are striking, and they say the game's in trouble
Quantic Dream workers walked out over 115 planned layoffs, warning Eclipse can't be finished without them. The studio insists development is on track.
Galactic Racer hands-on previews: podracing meets Burnout
Previews are in and the verdict on Star Wars: Galactic Racer is strong: four modes, four vehicle classes, and handling that channels Fuse's Burnout roots.
Report: the Outlaws sequel and remaining DLC are dead
An insider claims Ubisoft scrapped Star Wars Outlaws' sequel and cut the DLC roadmap from six packs to the two that shipped. What that means if you own it.
Every Upcoming Star Wars Game: 2026 and Beyond
One Star Wars game still has a 2026 date: Galactic Racer, on October 6. Then Jedi 3, Fate of the Old Republic, Eclipse, the KOTOR remake and two quieter projects, and how seriously to take each.
Star Wars: Zero Company Is the Clone Wars XCOM We Always Wanted
A single-player turn-based tactics game from ex-Firaxis devs, set in the Clone Wars and out August 27. Why it is the most interesting Star Wars game of 2026.
Podracing Is Back: Everything We Know About Star Wars: Galactic Racer
The first major podracing game in over two decades arrives October 6: New Republic-era underground circuits, syndicate rivalries, and yes, Sebulba is back.
Jedi 3 skipped every June showcase. Here's what we actually know
No reveal at Summer Game Fest, State of Play, or the Xbox Games Showcase. Separating the confirmed facts about Respawn's next Jedi game from the rumor pile.
Star Wars at Summer Game Fest: the two-minute recap
Zero Company got a gameplay reveal and an August 27 date, Galactic Racer a story trailer, Jedi 3 a no-show. Every Star Wars beat from the June showcases.
Zero Company's release date just leaked: August 27
Reliable leaker billbil-kun says Star Wars: Zero Company lands August 27 on PC, PS5, and Xbox, days before the official reveal expected at Summer Game Fest.
SWTOR's Legacy of the Sith finale is live: Update 7.9 'Legacy Reborn'
Update 7.9 closes the arc SWTOR started in 2022: Darth Jadus, Darth Nul's holocron, and a finale on a revived Legends moon. Free with a sub, no gear gate.