The year is 2035, and XCOM now operates as a resistance movement against the alien occupation. That represents a huge shift in context for both the strategic and tactical battles we’ll fight in ...

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 ...

Alien Hunters’ battles are by far the toughest, trickiest fights in Firaxis’ XCOM games to date, and the new weapons and abilities we get expand our tactical options in interesting ways.

If an alien craft can be downed by a Xcom fighter armed with cannon, then the aliens should also be vulnerable surface-to-air missiles such as the Patriot or S-300.

XCOM 2's core game takes place on small maps split into grid spaces. As commander, you take small squads of soldiers — first four, then five, then six — into these areas to do turn-based ...

Aliens: Dark Descent is more than an XCOM clone - and feels surprisingly true to the movies. After a 30-minute demo, this is now on my most wanted list.

No one was quite sure what we’d get when 2K Games rebooted the beloved XCOM series, largely dormant for over a decade, with 2012’s XCOM: Enemy Unknown. It’s been 20 years since the events of ...

XCOM: The Board Game works as a boardgame for two reasons. The first, obviously, is it's connection to a beloved strategy videogaming franchise. The second is it's integration of a digital component.

XCOM: Enemy Within is more than an expansion for XCOM: Enemy Unknown.It’s an entirely new level of alien infestation.

Viper in XCOM 2. Vipers are like Jafar from that terrifying scene in Aladdin in alien form and they’re here to make your squad’s life hell. They don’t take many shots, but they do have some ...

XCOM has plumbed the depths of a human story, but switching perspectives to the aliens would require more than just replacing human units with alien ones, according to Firaxis' Anada Gupta.

You’ve turned back the alien invasion and rescued humanity. Too bad that was only the beginning. “XCOM: Enemy Unknown” was among our runners-up for 2012’s Game of the Year. Now, veterans ...