GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Lead designer Mark Nauta talks about why Firaxis made some dramatic ...

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 ...

X-Com: UFO Defense, a strategy game from the early ’90s, is a sort of enigma. Although the original is revered as a masterstroke in design, every stab at a sequel or spiritual successor has fallen ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Enemy Unknown revived the long-lost strategy series, bringing it back even stronger than it was before. If you haven't played it yet, it's still worth ...

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 ...

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 ...

UFO: Enemy Unknown was finished in a rush in Mythos’s first major publisher-backed release. Julian Gollop, the game’s creator, discussed the stresses of partnering with Sid Meier’s company. “We went ...

Expansion adds new enemies, playable allies, missions, and gameplay features NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--2K and Firaxis Games announced today that XCOM® 2: War of the Chosen, the expansion to the 2016 ...

If you're still kind of bummed that Firaxis' new strategy game, Marvel's Midnight Suns, is not XCOM 3, then don't worry - the studio hasn't forgotten about the science fiction series. But its new ...