Inside the many promising, abortive concepts the BioShock developer came up with. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a ...

Once more unto the breaching turn, before they close up the wall with their chryssalid dead.

XCOM is one of the more unique games out there, taking the top-down CRPG perspective and focusing on tense encounters over complex world building and mechanics. The result is a game series that has an ...

Following a surprise announcement that XCOM: Chimera Squad, a standalone spinoff that takes place after the events of XCOM 2, would release next week, developer Firaxis revealed additional details ...

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 ...

I’ve been curious where the XCOM franchise will go. While critically acclaimed, the recent storyline is somewhat of a mess. To recap, XCOM: Enemy Unknown was a reboot serving as a new square one for ...

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 ...

Playing Day of the Shell, I'm struck with a desire to see more games like it. The new roguelike from indie developer Duper Games has all the grid-based, turn-based tactics of XCOM, but trades out the ...