April 16, 2015 Location: Sapporo, Japan Operation: Terrorism Response Action Codename: Lost Spark Mission Parameters: Failure will result in the immediate loss of resources and support from Japan. This would deal a devastating ...
Last year was likely the weirdest year I’ve had, gaming wise. Sure, I played my share of big-budget titles, and some of these were surprisingly good. But I also started playing most of my games on PC—and because of ...
Everyone thinks that Metallica fell from grace, sold out, became corporate shills. But what if they’d gone out a different way? What if they suited up for battle, XCOM style, and went down in a blaze of glory while fighti...
You know by now that XCOM: Enemy Unknown isn’t really about hunting down and blowing away aliens. It’s a game about survival. Everything you do, from building your base to researching new weaponry, is done with the ...
No one was sure that XCOM: Enemy Unknown would please fans of the original X-Com. The remake’s lead designer Jake Solomon counts himself amongst the devotees of Microprose’s sci-fi strategy game and even he wasnR...
Even though the game is nice enough to tell you the odds every time you squeeze the trigger in XCOM, there’s still an underlying feeling of “how the hell does this work”, or sometimes “WHY THE HELL DID T...
While a few pieces were shown here and there in the lead-up to the game’s release, what you’re about to see is a collection of mostly never-before-seen concept art from the production of one of the year’s surp...
Every time a classic PC game is moved over to consoles, we tend to hear the same worries: It’s been dumbed down; it’s oversimplifed, rendered toothless and worthless. When XCOM: Enemy Unknown was released on both PC...
Welcome back to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of Metacritic and elsewhere. The Metacritic 90. Rare upland territory. Dishonored hit it (on PC) and XCOM...