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Review: Wot I Think - XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Singleplayer)
Alien resurrection
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Review: Wot I Think: XCOM 2
Resistance is futile
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Review: Wot I Think - XCOM: Enemy Within
And without, and everywhere
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Review: Cardboard Children: XCOM: The Board Game - Part 1
Earth Defense Rab
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XCOM 2 Tips: How To Survive And Thrive
Tips for surviving the Advent meatgrinder
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XCOM 2 Performance Fix: Partial Solutions And More Tips
Eight tweaks which make a huge difference
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Supporters only: Jake Solomon uncut: here's our post-Firaxis GDC interview in full
The full Q&A transcript of our hour-long chat
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XCOM's Jake Solomon is swapping turn-based tactics for life sims, and he's not coming back
As the XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director leaves Firaxis, he chats to us about what's next, and how life sims have been creeping into his work ever since the birth of Minecraft
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RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2012
We list our favourite games from 2012, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else
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These are your 50 favourite strategy games of all time
As voted for by the RPS readership
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Firaxis' Jake Solomon says even he gets frustrated when he misses a shot in XCOM
Returning to XCOM, the Marvel's Midnight Suns director says he "felt the ghosts of everybody everywhere looking over my shoulder"
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Ex-XCOM developers open new studio dedicated to turn-based tactics games
Bit Reactor are led by XCOM's art director
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Gears Tactics will appeal to XCOM fans and classic Gears Of War fans alike
Who let the locust out?
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The greatest PC games of the 2010s
The definitive and objective list
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Have you played... XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen?
Avengers vs Aliens
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XCOM 2 is free this weekend (and DLC discounts a-go-go too)
Welcome back, commander cheapskate
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Celebrate six years of warfare with XCOM 2's Tactical Legacy Pack, free at launch
Commander? Bah, Bradford's all we need
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UFO sans DRM - XCom Complete Edition lands on GOG
Welcome back, Commander
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X-Com spiritual successor Phoenix Point is doing $100k per month in pre-orders
I'm so afraid of this spider-queen.
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Phoenix Point is so much like XCOM it scares me
Along came a spider
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XCOM 2: War of the Chosen's alien champions, lost cities and soldier bonds explained
Choose life, choose a fucking big mag cannon
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XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen coming August 29th
XCOM: Nemesis Known
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Phoenix Point is now crowdfunding: we spoke to Julian Gollop about standing out in a post-XCOM world
The Council of Funding Nations convenes
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Get your ass to Mars - the original X-COM is free
Only until tomorrow night
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It'll be over by Christmas
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Long War Studios Release New XCOM 2 Mods
Lasers and perks. Laserperks
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Review: Five Months Later, How Has XCOM 2 Changed?
Also: the DLC, reviewed
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Phoenix Point: Every Detail Of The X-COM Creator's Return To The Genre
X-COM Meets The Mist
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First XCOM 2 DLC Inbound, But No Perfomance Fix Yet
DIY Suicide Squad
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Interview: Firaxis' Jake Solomon On What Went Right And Wrong With XCOM 2
Tactics, Turn Timers, Difficulty, Boardgames, Bugs & Beards
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Firaxis' Jake Solomon says even he gets frustrated when he misses a shot in XCOM
Returning to XCOM, the Marvel's Midnight Suns director says he "felt the ghosts of everybody everywhere looking over my shoulder"
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Ex-XCOM developers open new studio dedicated to turn-based tactics games
Bit Reactor are led by XCOM's art director
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XCOM 2 is free this weekend (and DLC discounts a-go-go too)
Welcome back, commander cheapskate
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Celebrate six years of warfare with XCOM 2's Tactical Legacy Pack, free at launch
Commander? Bah, Bradford's all we need
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UFO sans DRM - XCom Complete Edition lands on GOG
Welcome back, Commander
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X-Com spiritual successor Phoenix Point is doing $100k per month in pre-orders
I'm so afraid of this spider-queen.
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XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen coming August 29th
XCOM: Nemesis Known
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Get your ass to Mars - the original X-COM is free
Only until tomorrow night
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It'll be over by Christmas
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Long War Studios Release New XCOM 2 Mods
Lasers and perks. Laserperks
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First XCOM 2 DLC Inbound, But No Perfomance Fix Yet
DIY Suicide Squad
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Four And A Half Million Dead: XCOM 2 Stats
How many have you killed?
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XCOM: Long War Team Making XCOM 2 Mods
Available at launch
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XCOM Long War Modders Working On Standalone Strategy Game
Watch the skies
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Making The Misfits: XCOM 2's Character Customisation
We made a hockey-masked, blood-spattered operative
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Someone Has Recreated A Playable XCOM In Excel
Cell-shaded
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Julian "Mr X-COM" Gollop's Chaos Reborn Is Out Now
I don't disbelieve it
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X-COM Creator's Chaos Reborn Is Born This Month
Post-release support promised
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Xenonauts 2 Is "More Likely Than Not"
I want to continue to believe
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So, Uh, Who Wants An XCOM 2 Prequel Novel?
Out in November
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XCOM's Free This Weekend, Or £3/$7 To Own Forever
Also some silly-lookin' XCOM 2 preorder DLC
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XCOM 2 Announcement Trailer: Alien Vs. Swordman
Oops! Missed this!
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New World Disorder: XCOM 2 Announced
XCOM XCOM XCOM XCOM XCOM
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Staff Changes: Gollop's Chaos Reborn Gets A Metagame
In-game shop, levelling up and stuff
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XCOM With Steamy Robots: Warmachine Tactics Demo
It has green bottoms in it too
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Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Seeing Starships Footage Now
"Marauders are not friendly people"
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Gollop: Own X-COM "Hopeless Cause" After Firaxis Game
Almost made new Laser Squad instead of Chaos Reborn
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Julian Gollop On Kickstarting Chaos: "It Was A Bit Scary"
X-COM creator returns
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XCOSMOS: Mecha-Scientists At War in Super Sagan RPG
Schrodinger's turn-based strategy game
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X-Comparisons Inevitable: Falling Skies
That familiar feeling
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XCOM: The Board Game Is The Board Game Of XCOM
Operation Hot Cardboard
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Penny For Your BioShocks: The Humble 2K Bundle Is A Steal
That's a lot of games
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Research Completed: OpenXcom Hits V1.0
Looking at Terror from the Deep next
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XCOM Who? - Xenonauts Officially Complete
UFO, you know?
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Be Like Levine: Chaos Reborn Prototype Released
A dollop of Gollop
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Magic Gathers To A Close: Chaos Reborn's Nearly There
Golloping to the finish line
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XCOM Expansion Grudgingly Acknowledges Save Scummers
Cheaters prosper
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Review: Five Months Later, How Has XCOM 2 Changed?
Also: the DLC, reviewed
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Review: Wot I Think: XCOM 2
Resistance is futile
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Review: Cardboard Children: XCOM: The Board Game - Part 1
Earth Defense Rab
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Review: Wot I Think - XCOM: Enemy Within
And without, and everywhere
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Review: Wot I Think - XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Singleplayer)
Alien resurrection
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XCOM 2 Tips: How To Survive And Thrive
Tips for surviving the Advent meatgrinder
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XCOM 2 Performance Fix: Partial Solutions And More Tips
Eight tweaks which make a huge difference
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Supporters only: Jake Solomon uncut: here's our post-Firaxis GDC interview in full
The full Q&A transcript of our hour-long chat
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XCOM's Jake Solomon is swapping turn-based tactics for life sims, and he's not coming back
As the XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director leaves Firaxis, he chats to us about what's next, and how life sims have been creeping into his work ever since the birth of Minecraft
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RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2012
We list our favourite games from 2012, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else
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These are your 50 favourite strategy games of all time
As voted for by the RPS readership
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The greatest PC games of the 2010s
The definitive and objective list
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Have you played... XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen?
Avengers vs Aliens
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Phoenix Point is so much like XCOM it scares me
Along came a spider
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XCOM 2: War of the Chosen's alien champions, lost cities and soldier bonds explained
Choose life, choose a fucking big mag cannon
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Phoenix Point is now crowdfunding: we spoke to Julian Gollop about standing out in a post-XCOM world
The Council of Funding Nations convenes
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Phoenix Point: Every Detail Of The X-COM Creator's Return To The Genre
X-COM Meets The Mist
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Interview: Firaxis' Jake Solomon On What Went Right And Wrong With XCOM 2
Tactics, Turn Timers, Difficulty, Boardgames, Bugs & Beards
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Solomon: "I should probably have put in a fake difficulty below the lowest difficulty"
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Learning To Love Failure In XCOM 2 & Darkest Dungeon
Death is not the end
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The Wizened + The Doomed: An XCOM 2 Diary, Day 3
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Dogs, Timesavers And Katanas: The Best XCOM 2 Mods
Time-saving and dog-wielding
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Supporters only: I Have Played A Frightening Amount Of XCOM
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An XCOM 2 Diary: The Wizened + The Doomed, Day 1
A perma-Death Diary - plus download the RPS staff for your game
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XCOM 2's Day One Mods Reviewed
To mod or not to mod?
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XCOM 2 Is Ridiculously Exciting
Independence Day+
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Supporters only: In Defence Of Random Number Generation
The Drama Of The Dice
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Hands On: XCOM 2's Brutal Difficulty And Superb Tactical Overhaul
Harder, better, stronger
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XCOM 2's Concealment Mechanic Changes Everything
Hidden and dangerous
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Hands On: XCOM 2's Strategy And Tactics Dissected
It's everything we hoped for.
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Best Steam Summer Sale Deals: Day 1
It Begins
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Fear Of The Unknown: What We Want From XCOM 2
A game to be feared
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19 Observations About The XCOM 2 Trailer
Snakewomen and Johnny 5
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Wot I want to play again
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What Can Games Learn From Action In Comics?
Action Games
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Elegant chaos
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Wot Games Did RPS Play Over Its Holidays?
Between The Game Of Life
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What I Play When I'm Not Well
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Whatever Happened To X-COM's Julian Gollop?
"Turn-based strategy games can actually be successful and popular"
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Impressions: The Triumphs And Struggles Of Xenonauts
The alternative aliens
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Terror From The Details: XCOM's Amazing Long War Mod
ReGollopification
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Gollop Returns: X-COM Creator's Chaos Reborn, Played
After the Apocalypse
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The Right To Upgrade Arms - XCOM Enemy Within Thoughts
I'm X-communicating
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Human Unkind
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The Mod Squad: XCOM - Enemy Within Interview
Knowing Me, Knowing UFO
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Don't Starve Dev On Its 'Espionage XCOM' Incognita
Knowing Is Half The Battle
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Firaxis’ Jake Solomon Post-Mortems XCOM: Part Two
Bugged about bugs
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Firaxis' Jake Solomon Post-Mortems XCOM: Part One
On accents, bases, guns and surprises
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Solomon Vows: Firaxis on XCOM's Second Wave Add-On
The Infinite Interview Continues
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Wot I Read - X-COM UFO Defense, A Novel
50 Shades of Greys
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XCOM: Diary Of A Wimpy Squad, Finale - 28Ish Days Later
The last of us
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XCOM: Diary Of A Wimpy Squad #6 - Deacon Gray
Major Laser
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Games Are Best When Things Go Wrong
On fire, in a ditch
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XCOM: Diary Of Wimpy Squad #5 - Bucket List
Alexander the not-so-great
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XCOM: Diary Of A Wimpy Squad #4: The Grilling
Stone Cold Dead
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XCOM: Diary of a Wimpy Squad #3 - Coinky-Dink
Enter Smithman
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XCOM: Diary Of A Wimpy Squad #2 - First Blood
And Second Blood too :(
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XCOM: Diary Of A Wimpy Squad #1 - Meet The Team
A Prologue: Quiet Before The Storm
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Some Things You Should Know About The XCOM Demo
11 Truths & Untruths
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5 Things Which Make Me Happy In XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Strapline with 'unknown'-related gag #4562
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XCOM XChat: Jim And Adam In Turn-Based Conversation
Extra Terrestrials With A Side Of Chips
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Hands-On: Forty Hours With XCOM
Death And The Alien
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XCOM Enemy Unknown: The Final Chatdown
Knowing Me, Knowing You
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Interview: Firaxis On XCOM's Secret Origins
Known Unknowns
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Xcommunication: XCOM - Enemy Unknown Interview
Getting to know you
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Hands On: XCOM - Enemy Unknown Part 2
Baseless assumptions
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Hands On (Safety Off): XCOM - Enemy Unknown
And the Earth died screaming
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It Started With A Kick: A Xenonauts Preview
Golloping along
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Firaxis On XCOM vs Xenonauts & Optional Kill-Cam
Silence is golden
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Death & The Muton: Firaxis On XCOM Fatalities & Floaters
Part Five Of A Three-Part Interview
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Firaxis Talk XCOM, Redux: Bases, Ammo, Skills Explained
The never-ending interview
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XCOM Remake: 8 Things I Dig, 6 Things I Worry About
Cydonia or Sigh-donia?
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Chat: Xenonauts Dev On Firaxis And Outdoing X-COM
The enemy of my Enemy
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Time For A Change: Firaxis On XCOM, Part 3
Time units, modding, Iron Man Mode and failure
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Death & Chrysalids: Firaxis On XCOM, Part 2
Investigating the unknown
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Know Your Enemy: Firaxis On XCOM, Part 1
The origins of a reimagining
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The New XCOM: 24 Things We Want
Keeping my enemy close