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Having recovered from their Dishonored love-in early this morning, critics are currently heaping praise on another of today’s releases – 2K Games’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Firaxis have proved, along with the similarly excellent Civlization Revolution, that games like this can work on consoles as well as PC,” CVG said in …
Read More »Watch the video: XCOM developer turns games retailer
Developers and retailers haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, but when they do it can lead to some hilarious results. Take for instance Jake Solomon. The lead designer on the upcoming turn-based strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown. He wants people to buy his new game. So he attended Power Gamer in Maryland, …
Read More »XCOM: Enemy Unknown gets October release
2K Games has at last confirmed a 2012 release date for IP revamp XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The Firaxis title for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC game will be released in the UK on October 12th. It will arrive in North America a few days earlier on October 9th. Those who …
Read More »XCOM shooter ‘delayed till 2013’
Recently announced strategy title Enemy Unknown to release first
Read More »XCOM shooter pushed back to 2013
2K’s sci-fi shooter XCOM will not arrive until next year, meaning it will now hit shelves after strategy reboot XCOM Enemy Unknown. The publisher had already delayed the shooter from March 2012 to between April 1st 2012 and March 2013, but now it looks as if the title won’t arrive …
Read More »XCOM returns to strategy roots
2K Games has announced it will publish a new XCOM strategy title by the end of the year, entitled XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The publisher is already working on an action shooter reboot for the classic strategy series, XCOM, which is due for release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC some …
Read More »Xcom reboot delayed following 2K Marin layoffs
As parent company Take-Two announces worsened financial losses
Read More »XCOM reboot delayed
Take-Two has confirmed its sci-fi shooter XCOM will not be released in March 2012. Instead, the reboot of the classic 2K series will land during the publisher’s next financial year: between April 1st 2012 and March 2013. The delays was announced during Take-Two’s quarterly financial report, according to Eurogamer. The …
Read More »XCOM gets 2012 release
2K Games has announced that first person shooter XCOM will released on March 9th 2012 in Europe and March 6th in the US. And it has also revealed that the game is no longer an Xbox 360 exclusive and will also be hitting PS3. Though the XCOM series has its …
Read More »XCOM returns on Xbox 360
2K Games is to breath new life into the classic XCOM series by releasing a brand new first person shooter title based on the franchise. This new game is being developed by BioShock 2 studio 2K Marin and will be released for Xbox 360 and PC. It’s not the first …
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