“When thinking about what XCOM is, loss sort of underpins a lot of it,” said XCOM 2 Creative Director Jake Solomon, when asked why he and his team chose the unusual route of assuming we all failed the ...

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 ...

The original XCOM, 2012's Enemy Unknown, and XCOM 2 represent some of the most brilliantly designed games in history. Everything you do, every choice, has meaning and consequence - every decision on ...

I played through The Bureau: XCOM Declassified's entire floundering tactical shooter campaign wondering how it planned to pull off a plausible prequel backstory to the freshly rebooted XCOM universe.

We've covered the best XCOM 2 mods, but what about Firaxis' first fantastic foray into our favourite universe? Well, despite being a seminal entry in the history of turn-based strategy games, it turns ...