Update: XCOM 2 has been nominated for IGN's 2016 Game of the Year. There’s an air of white-knuckle desperation about XCOM 2’s post-apocalyptic setting, and it only enhances the tension. Taking place ...

The latest game to announce that it's being delisted from Steam is Transformers: Battlegrounds, which is the victim of a ...

“When thinking about what XCOM is, loss sort of underpins a lot of it,” said XCOM 2 Creative Director Jake Solomon, when asked why he and his team chose the unusual route of assuming we all failed the ...

XCOM is one of gaming’s greatest tactical franchises, known for stirring a sense of doubt in gamers even when they allegedly have a 99% chance of successfully landing a shot. Well, there’s no reason ...

Matt Karoglou is a freelance writer and musician who has been playing video games for 36 years and writing about them for almost as long. When he's not editorializing about the intricacies and ...

Charles Burgar is an expert on all things tech and gaming. After graduating from Pikes Peak Community College in 2018 with an Associate of Science, Charles spends most of his free time dissecting ...

When it comes to games like XCOM, only the most strategic of turn-based tactical experiences will do. Both XCOM and XCOM 2 champion large-scale strategy above all else, and similar games can pose all ...

XCOM is one of the more unique games out there, taking the top-down CRPG perspective and focusing on tense encounters over ...

Consdering we know that Firaxis is currently working on a turn-based tactics game called Marvel: Midnight Suns, it's the perfect time to talk about XCOM 3. Back in 1994, game designer Julian Gollop ...

Firaxis is a big supporter of XCOM 2 mods, and while the studio has now left the community to their own devices, it has also made it so easy for modders to change the whole game. Showing its ...

Where previous sequels to XCOM games have failed, XCOM 2 — the sequel to 2012's reboot, XCOM: Enemy Unknown — succeeds. Stand down, Terror from the Deep. Sleep ...