A group of Firaxis Games veterans has announced a brand new Maryland-based studio called Bit Reactor which will be focused on turn-based strategy games. Bit Reactor will be headed up by former Firaxis ...

Inspired by XCOM and Jagged Alliance, the turn-based tactics of Warhounds calculates every bullet separately to ensure "no ...

Once more unto the breaching turn, before they close up the wall with their chryssalid dead.

One of the best things about XCOM is how it makes you feel a kinship with your soldiers. Randomly-generated grunts join your squad, you rename them, you tint their armour, and you send them out on the ...

There have been plenty of ups and downs, but there's no doubting that Firaxis did a bang-up job with its modern reimagining of iconic turn-based strategy legend X-COM. 2012's XCOM: Enemy Unknown set a ...

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 ...

The announcement of XCOM 2 this week as a PC exclusive surprised people, but the PC focus is allowing developer Firaxis Games to optimize the game for computers, the studio said in an interview with ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Almost every video game is a dare, a challenge thrown down by the creators that you cannot beat their game. The beauty of the modern XCOM series is ...