I knew it had to be more than just a smattering of trivia, however. PC Gamer's readers are some of the most diehard XCOM fans ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. You're hunkered down behind a beaten-up truck, bleeding from a chest wound. You can hear the labored breathing of one of your squadmates over the ...

It’s strange to think that Firaxis Games’ XCOM 2 was released just four years ago. In the time since, the tactical strategy game has received such acclaim and a dedicated following that it feels like ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Enemy Unknown revived the long-lost strategy series, bringing it back even stronger than it was before. If you haven't played it yet, it's still worth ...

XCOM 2 really has it all when it comes to strategy RPG games, doesn't it? There's a wide variety of missions, a tense apocalyptic story about fighting back against the invasion, boatloads of ...

In 2016’s XCOM 2, players saved the world from armies of alien colonizers who used humans as psionic meat puppets. When the leaders of the invasion fled, they abandoned hordes of their own soldiers on ...

In 2017 we described the Long War 2 as "a must-play reinvention of XCOM 2" that changes up the brilliant turn-based strategy game in ways that both slow and deepen the campaign against the alien ...

It’s been a little over two weeks since Phoenix Point’s release, leaving plenty of time to see how the game ticks. With all of that time under players’ belts, the only reasonable next question is how ...

XCOM is one of gaming’s greatest tactical franchises, known for stirring a sense of doubt in gamers even when they allegedly have a 99% chance of successfully landing a shot. Well, there’s no reason ...

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Few tactical shooters stack up to XCOM. The venerable sci-fi series is considered best-in-class for the genre, thanks to a formula calcified in the widely praised XCOM: Enemy Unknown and its equally ...