Steam News · Sep 30, 2020
The studio behind the excellent XCOM: Long War mods have launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to help finish their own game about alien invasion. Terra Invicta is not XCOM by a new name, mind. It’s a grand strategy game which starts with mysterious first encounters, leads to geopolitical manoeuvring as factions jostle for position and contend with alien influence, can develop into ...
Steam News · Dec 13, 2019
One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be taken off. Mech love, not war. That is the lesson we must learn from the futuristic prophecies of the MechWarrior games. Yes, it is very noble to slam your big steel shoes upon a separatist s bedroom, and to laser him in the head. ...
Steam News · Feb 7, 2019
"I forget everything between footsteps. "'Anna!' I finish shouting, snapping my mouth shut in surprise. "My mind has gone blank. I don't know who Anna is or why I'm calling her name. I don't even know how I got here. I'm standing in a forest, shielding my eyes from the spitting rain. My heart's thumping, I reek of sweat and my legs are shaking. I must have been running but I can't remember why. Re...
Steam News · Oct 2, 2018
Firaxis has announced that it's celebrating XCOM's sixth birthday on October 9th with the release of the Tactical Legacy Pack - a brand-new (and temporarily free) DLC update for XCOM 2's War of the Chosen expansion on PC. The Tactical Legacy Pack is designed to bridge the timeline gap between the first Firaxis XCOM game, Enemy Unknown, and its 2016 sequel. It includes new modes, maps, weapons, and...
Steam News · Oct 2, 2018
Six years ago, Firaxis pulled off the impossible with XCOM, re-envisioning a DOS classic next week, they re celebrating this feat with the Tactical Legacy pack for XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen. It s pure fan-service of the less-sexy kind (unless Carapace armour turns you on, in which case fly your freak flag high), featuring old favourite equipment and environments used in a new s...
Steam News · Jun 14, 2018
Is six years within fashionably late territory? Better late than never, at least. Today, Firaxis s alien-bothering turn-based squad tactics revival, XCom: Enemy Unknown has launched on GOG after over half a decade of the PC version being Steam-exclusive. Rather than divide it up, GOG are only selling the Complete edition of the game, including two minor bits of DLC and the rath...
Steam News · Feb 11, 2016
Firaxis have unveiled an XCOM 2 stat-tracking page that shows how many soldiers have died, how many aliens have been killed and other such details. Four and a half million XCOM soldiers dead in less than a week since launch. Good work, Commanders. Five percent of those soldiers met their end at the hands and teeth of a zombie. Really great work, Commanders, seriously. You are nailing it. The stats...
Steam News · Feb 4, 2016
I visited Firaxis in 2014 to see Civilization: Beyond Earth and it was impossible not to wonder which closed doors were hiding the XCOM 2 team. The game hadn t been announced but surely somebody was working on a sequel. Would it follow the path of the original games and take to the Lovecraftian depths? Would it reach toward the stars and a battle on various alien homeworlds? Would it take ri...
Steam News · Feb 1, 2016
In 2012, Firaxis took on the seemingly impossible task of reviving one of the most beloved PC games ever made. The original X-COM is widely considered to be one of the masterpieces of the nineties golden age, and since its release there have been sequels, spin-offs and unofficial revivals, but Firaxis XCOM was a complete, licensed reinterpretation. It was also rather good. Now, with XCOM 2 ...
Steam News · Jan 7, 2016
Nobody gets left behind. That was my XCOM: Enemy Unknown rule and it was a rule that I adhered to in almost every one of the hundreds of missions I oversaw. If a squad fell in combat, they fell side by side. XCOM 2 has made me break my one rule. Repeatedly. Deviously. Tragically. It s hard as nails, and superbly distorts the tactics and strategies that were successful in its predecessor. I&#...
