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XCOM: Enemy Unknown artwork

GDC 2013: Julian Gollop's Postmortem on UFO: Enemy Unknown/XCOM: UFO Defense

March 28th, 2013

• Julian Gollop gave a talk at Games Developers Conference 2013 on the development of the original UFO: Enemy Unknown/XCOM: UFO Defense. An interesting look into the philosophies and source material that went into the making of the game, and also how it nearly failed.

See the video at: http://www.gamespot.com/events/gdc-2013/video.html?sid=6406150

XCOM: Enemy Unknown by Firaxis Games released!

March 1st, 2013

• Elite Edition for the Mac announced. Firaxis have announced that Feral Games are porting XCOM: Enemy Unknown to the OS X and will be released in an Elite Edition. This edition will include the Elite Soldier Pack, Slingshot and Second Wave DLCs and should be released this spring.

January 8th, 2013

• Second Wave options now available on XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The latest patch released today by Firaxis now activates the Second Wave options and makes it available for the game. Despite it being already included but inactive (and playable through mods) the developers had stated that they didn't had time to complete Second Wave before XCOM: Enemy Unknown but it was on their intentions to finish it. It now includes the following options as part of Advanced Gameplay: Damage Roulette, New Economy, Not Created Equally, Hidden Potential, Red Fog, Absolutely Critical, The Greater Good, Marathon, Results Driven, High Stakes, Diminishing Returns, More Than Human, Total Loss, War Wariness, E-115 and Alternate Sources. The patch also introduces fixes to the teleport bug and adds a new XCOM Hero.

December 4, 2012

• 2K Games has released the first of two DLC packs for all platforms, named Slingshot. The pack features several additional new helmets, 1 new armor decoration and 3 linked Council missions and a special playable soldier named Zhang.

October 23, 2012

• 2K Games has announced the first of two DLC packs for all platforms. The first, named Slingshot, will feature 3 new linked Council missions that will focus on a playable character named Zhang.

October 9, 2012

• Eighteen years after the original release of UFO: Enemy Unknown (or XCOM: UFO Defense), 2K Games has released today in North America XCOM: Enemy Unknown, its remake of the original game, which will be followed by the international release next Friday. XCOM is back!

September 24, 2012

• Demo is released on Steam. It features a tutorial mission, a standard mission and a limited interaction with the Base and Geoscape layer.

August 10, 2012

• Multiplayer deathmatch revealed for XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012), mix your own squad of soldiers & aliens and battle online vs other players.

January 5, 2012

• Publisher 2K Games announces that Firaxis (makers of Civilization) is developing a re-imagining of the original XCOM: Enemy Unknown for release this fall (2012).

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New XCOM FPS Game by 2k Marin

• XCOM FPS has been delayed multiple times, release is late 2013 or 2014 at the earliest.
• The game will focus on elite U.S. government operatives attempting to prevent a nightmarish invasion of the United States (while dropping the dash in X-COM). See:
• The official XCOM site (only a couple of trailers here)
• Some criticism of its change in focus (1, 2), although 2k Marin may be rethinking this
• 2k's XCOM forum, including passionate posts by X-Commies
• Once slated for March 2012 release, it has now slipped to a later date (1, 2).

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X-COM Packages

Now available for less than $15

• At GamersGate, Steam and Direct2Drive. (Includes UFO, TFTD, Apoc, Int, and Enf).

For "reviews", see this.

Archived News

OFFICIAL - NEW X-COM GAME FROM THE DEVELOPERS OF BIOSHOCK 2
Yes, this will come as a shock to all, but 2K Australia and 2K Marin is busily working on a first-person shooter based on the X-COM franchise. More info will presumably become available on the 2010 E3.

For more information/rumors check 2K's X-COM forum.