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XCOM: Chimera Squad review - brilliant strategy gets a budget price point and waves goodbye to permadeath

One of the best things about XCOM is how it makes you feel a kinship with your soldiers. Randomly-generated grunts join your squad, you rename them, you tint their armour, and you send them out on the ...
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A new XCOM game called Chimera Squad releases in ten days

Well, here's a surprise. Here we all are, waiting for XCOM 3 and assuming it'd get a full marketing cycle, and Firaxis comes along announcing that XCOM: Chimera Squad will be available on Steam next ...
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What is Warhounds, The Upcoming Tactics Game and XCOM Spiritual Successor?

Tactical RPG fans have a new XCOM and Jagged Alliance spiritual successor to look forward to when Warhounds releases on Steam ...
IGN

XCOM Director Says the Series Will Return

XCOM director Jake Solomon has confirmed the turn-based tactical series will definitely make a return. Speaking to VGC, Solomon said that XCOM will continue as long as he and the studio are around to ...

XCOM spiritual successor Warhounds dumps its gen-AI portraits, and I'm breathing a sigh of relief

Inspired by XCOM and Jagged Alliance, turn-based tactics game Warhounds no longer uses generative AI assets, and it's a ...
GameSpot

XCOM Creator Is Ready To Return To The Franchise, If Firaxis Ever Decides To Call Him

The future of XCOM remains unknown, but if the franchise does make a return, a veteran of the series would like to take a stab at it again. In a new interview, X-COM creator Julian Gollop revealed how ...
GameSpot

XCOM 2 Will Add Looting, Stealth, And Better Mod Support

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, your soldiers needed to recover alien technology to advance their own scientific knowledge and construct better equipment.
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This week's XCOM 2 DLC adds a whole new unit class - and it's robots

XCOM 2 has a new DLC pack called Shen's last Gift. As the name suggests, it's all about Chief Engineer Shen - and her father. You and the brilliant tinkerer must infiltrate an abandoned ADVENT ...
Digital Trends

XCOM: The Enemy Unknown producer talks about honoring the past without getting trapped

It was a simpler time in gaming. Sprites ran free, MIDI soundtracks dominated ear holes, and the real-time strategy genre was a thriving and powerful industry unto itself. Those days are long gone ...
Polygon

Changing XCOM for Chimera Squad was hard, even the legendary Sid Meier had a go

XCOM: Chimera Squad changes a lot about classic XCOM, but the biggest departure is in the turn order itself. The decision to mix things up was controversial, and early on many members of the ...
Digital Trends

2K reveals ‘XCOM: Enemy Within,’ the replacement for ‘Enemy Unknown’

Firaxis and 2K Games have announced that XCOM: Enemy Unknown will live on thanks to a new expansion pack known as XCOM: Enemy Within. We spoke with lead designer Ananda Gupta, who told us that this ...