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 ...

We show off the Bolt Caster, Hunter's Axe and more from the XCOM 2: Alien Hunters DLC. XCOM 2 transports players 20 years into the future, where humanity lost the war against the alien threat that has ...

We all know XCOM is the gold standard for modern turn-based strategy games. The nail-biting thrill of hoping your alien oppressors miss that next shot; the long-term planning, recruitment, and base ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from XCOM 2: Alien Hunters Transform XCOM soldiers into an elite alien hunting squad and face off against new alien Rulers. Now Available. All the big Star Wars ...

UFO: Alien Invasion is a game in which the player controls human special forces (PHALANX) in the fight against alien invaders. It is an opensource game based on and heavily influenced by the X-COM ...

Nobody rushed to disagree with Julian Gollop when, in 2017, he declared that XCOM had become its own genre. By that time, after all, Ubisoft and Nintendo had backed the XCOM blueprint, while Gollop ...

We play as the Reapers and Skirmishers in the Lost and Abandoned mission from XCOM 2: War of the Chosen DLC. XCOM 2 transports players 20 years into the future, where humanity lost the war against the ...

There's XCOM, and then there's X-COM. The former refers to the modern strategy games from Civilization developer Firaxis, which are easily some of the best in the genre you can play today. The latter, ...

Firaxis’ XCOM: Enemy Unknown is notable for many reasons, including the realistic diversity of your squad members. Your squaddies can be from any country, have any background and, most importantly, ...