Rumors about a first-person shooter based in the acclaimed "XCOM" universe have been circulating around the Internet since at least 2006 when the video game publisher 2K Games first hinted that it was ...

Just when I felt I’d gotten a handle on using the complex rules of XCOM 2’s combat to my advantage, XCOM 2: Alien Hunters has gone and turned them against me. This DLC pack brings in three new major ...

While investigating Gray Phoenix faction, before you can take them down you will have to recover some abducted aliens. Here we have the complete XCOM Chimera Squad Recover Abducted Aliens Walkthrough ...

The original X-COM: UFO Defense, which came out in 1994, has a pretty straightforward narrative: Aliens drop in from orbit and begin terrorizing the planet. It’s up to you and your little team of ...

Here’s what my XCOM 2 experience was like: I spent half an hour in the character customization screen creating my best faux-Snake/Big Boss. I couldn’t find a Kurt Russell mullet but I got the eye ...

The chance to play as the aliens in XCOM is one of the most frequent community requests, but creative director Jake Solomon is sceptical that it could be made to work. Should you pick it up? Jeremy ...

The fundamentals remain - two actions per turn, full and half cover, destructible environments, etc - and it all works as well as we know it does. But as you will have guessed from its sudden ...

The excellent strategy game, XCOM: Enemy Within, is out now for mobile devices as an entirely new standalone game for $12.99. If you haven’t played an XCOM game yet, this is a fantastic place to jump ...

Remember that barren period at the start of the PS4's lifecycle? You know it. It's where the great indie whinge began, and folk started asking the eternal question of when Knack was going to be on ...

For some reason, despite the fact that I rather like the Alien film franchise and absolutely bloody love the squad-based tactics best exemplified by XCOM, Aliens: Dark Descent wasn’t really on my ...

In brief: Few turn-based tactical strategy franchises have been around as long as the XCOM series. The alien-slaying games have only gotten better over time, both in terms of graphics and gameplay, ...

Michael has been writing about entertainment since 2016, but he's been a gamer since playing Pac-Man in the arcade, Kings Quest 3 on the PC, and the Sega Master System he got from his late father. In ...