I’m not very good at stealth games. I like the idea of trying to sneak around undetected, but as soon as I get…
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More than two years since its release, XCOM 2 is still a behemoth of a strategy game, but things have been quiet out…
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I’m Not A Monster looks like a cool blend of XCOM and deceit-based party games like Werewolf and Mafia. It’s a multiplayer turn-based game where everybody’s ostensibly part of a crew trying to save civilians from pulpy space monsters. Two players, however, are monsters in disguise. It’ll be out later this year.
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This weekend, the New York Times reported on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which apparently…
I bought XCOM: Enemy Unknown five years ago and still haven’t touched it.
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is a turn-based Shakespearean tragedy generator, and also there are aliens. Steam users…
There’s a mod for XCOM 2 called [WotC] Overwatch Mercy Squadmate. It does exactly what the name and picture here…
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is now available on PS4 and Xbox One. We’ve been enjoying it on PC.
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XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is a very good arts and crafts game that also includes the occasional tactical battle…
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If you’ve never played XCOM 2, here’s my advice: Skip the vanilla version and start by playing the new expansion, War…
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Back when Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor first came out in 2014, people pretty much immediately started asking,…
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Phoenix Point is a new strategy game from Julian Gollop, creator of the original X-Com. Unlike his last game, Chaos Reborn, this one’s a spiritual successor to X-Com, on which the modern XCOM series is based. It’s still very much in development and is seeking funding on Fig.
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All Walls Must Fall is a tactics game that owes as much to Rez as it does to XCOM. It takes place in a future Berlin where the Cold War never ended. Time-traveling agents loop the same night over and over via tactical battles that occur to the beat of music. Looks wild! It’s on Steam Greenlight and Kickstarter.
Long War was one of the first XCOM reboot’s most popular and beloved mods, so much so that XCOM 2 ended up liberally…
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Angela “Overkill” Hill is the strawweight champion of the world’s most prominent women’s MMA organization, Invicta.…
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XCOM 2 is a phenomenal strategy game. The DLC Firaxis has released in its wake, on the other hand, has mostly been…
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XCOM 2 just got its biggest DLC expansion yet, Alien Hunters. It adds three new “ruler” aliens, which function as…