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Platform Win, 360, PS3, Mac, iOS Publisher 2K Games Developer Firaxis Games Release Date 10/09/2012

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown review: blinded by science

By Russ Pitts on Oct 07, 2012 10.07.12

I'm 30 hours into the single-player campaign of XCOM: Enemy Unknown when it strikes me that I've been doing it all wrong from the start. That I decide to keep on going says something about the way I've chosen to play. I have disabled "Ironman Mode" - which would prevent me from saving the game at all - but I have accepted certain outcomes as inevitable. I have a few "chosen" characters I will not allow to die, but the rest ... well, saving Humanity from the alien scourge is a dirty business. The Earth appreciates their sacrifice. So this latest setback, the doing it all wrong, is, to me, simply part of the learning curve. After all, if you're playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown the way it was intended - the way the original demanded - you're going in blind, stumbling toward victory against a...

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown available on PSN for $39.99

By Jenna Pitcher on Apr 10, 2013 04.10.13

Firaxis Games' XCOM: Enemy Unknown is available now for PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation Network in North America for $39.99, the official PlayStation blog revealed. A Mac "Elite Edition" of the strategy game will see a release for Mac on April 25, as announced at the Firaxis Games' PAX East panel. Feral Interactive will handle the XCOM: Enemy Unknown Mac port. Last month, 2K Games announced that a full port of XCOM: Enemy Unknown will launch for iOS devices this Summer. In an interview with Polygon, lead developer Jake Solomon said that porting XCOM to iOS felt "natural," and that the "touch interface is sort of uniquely suited to strategy games, especially turn-based strategy games." XCOM: Enemy Unknown was first released on Oct. 9, 2012 for Windows PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360....

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Firaxis teases 'what may be coming next' for XCOM at PAX East panel

By Griffin McElroy on Mar 23, 2013 03.23.13

A brief glimpse of the future of XCOM was shown off during Firaxis' PAX East 2013 panel moments ago, hinting that a new alien threat may be aligning against planet Earth. The teaser, which featured a static-riddled message from the "councilman," delivered an ominous message to close out the panel. "This next one is big," Firaxis' Jake Solomon told the panel's attendees. "You're not going to see it anywhere else, we're not even going to talk about it for a while. This is for those of you who care enough to be super fans and came to this panel. We wanted to give you a sneak peek at what may be coming next, so, we have an incoming transmission from the councilman." The message, which was fairly difficult to translate, was not an optimistic one. "Hello Commander," the councilman said....

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown coming to Mac April 25

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Mar 23, 2013 03.23.13

XCOM: Enemy Unknown will be released for Mac on April 25, as revealed during the Firaxis panel at PAX East. The port was announced earlier this month. Feral Interactive, known for their Mac ports on titles such as Borderlands, BioShock and Deus Ex: Human Revolution, will publish the game. The Mac "Elite Edition" is expected to include all previously released content, such as the Slingshot pack, Elite Solider pack and Second Wave update. XCOM: Enemy Unknown is also expected to launch for iOS devices this summer. According to lead developer Jake Solomon, the game will be a complete port.

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown heading to Mac

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Mar 04, 2013 03.04.13

XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Firaxis' turn-based strategy role playing game, is heading to Mac OSX, Feral Interactive announced. The game will be available in an "elite edition" exclusive to Mac owners that will feature all previously released downloadable content, including the Slingshot pack, Elite Solider pack and Second Wave update. XCOM: Enemy Unknown was released for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC in October of 2012. A release date for the Mac version was not announced. Those interested in pre-ordering can sign up to be notified when it's available.

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Voting open online for the Game Developers Choice Award

By Dave Tach on Feb 19, 2013 02.19.13

The virtual ballet box is open for the Game Developers Choice Audience Award and accepting nominations today through 5 p.m. ET March 1, according to the official website. Voters need to select a game from a list provided and enter an email address, from which you'll be prompted to confirm your vote. The list of nominated games includes: Assassin's Creed 3 Borderlands 2 Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Dishonored Dust: An Elysian Tail Far Cry 3 Fez FTL: Faster Than Light Gravity Rush Halo 4 Hero Academy Hotline Miami Journey Kid Icarus: Uprising Mark of the Ninja Mass Effect 3 PlanetSide 2 The Room Sound Shapes Spelunky Spec Ops: The Line Trials Evolution The Unfinished Swan Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward The Walking Dead XCOM: Enemy Unknown ZombiU In late...

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Journey and The Walking Dead win big at the 16th annual DICE awards

By Jenna Pitcher on Feb 08, 2013 02.08.13

At tonight's 16th annual DICE Awards, PlayStation exclusive Journey won eight of its eleven category nominations, including Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction and Outstanding Innovation in Gaming. The Walking Dead won four of its eight nominations, including Adventure Game of the Year, Downloadable Game of the Year and Outstanding Character Performance of protagonist Lee Everett (voiced by Dave Fennoy). Halo 4 won two of six nominated categories, including Outstanding Achievement in Connectivity and Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering. The Academy's Peer Panels evaluated more than 100 games, a peer panel for each category, with 63 nominated for awards. Voting for the awards was online and anonymous. "For the past 16 years, the D.I.C.E. Awards have...

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Take-Two reports 76 percent jump in Q3 revenue led by NBA 2K13 sales

By Samit Sarkar on Feb 05, 2013 02.05.13

Take-Two announced strong results today for the third quarter of its 2013 fiscal year, reporting a 76 percent year-over-year increase in net revenue led primarily by 4.5 million units shipped of NBA 2K13. For the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2012, Take-Two tallied net revenue of $415.8 million, a 76 percent jump over the $236.3 million of revenue for the same period in 2011. Net income for the quarter increased by 399 percent to $70.9 million from $14.2 million. According to Take-Two, the three "strongest contributors" to revenue in the quarter were NBA 2K13, Borderlands 2 and catalog sales of games including Grand Theft Auto 4 and Red Dead Redemption. Borderlands 2 was released in September, at the tail end of Take-Two's previous fiscal quarter; Take-Two has now shipped nearly 6 million...

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Firaxis threw out first 'awful' XCOM prototype in 2003

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Jan 28, 2013 01.28.13

Firaxis worked on an earlier XCOM remake than 2012's XCOM: Enemy Unknown, but the prototype was thrown out for being downright "awful," according to lead designer Jake Solomon. Speaking with Edge, Solomon explained that the studio first attempted a reboot in 2003, but never succeeded. "It's a good thing it never went ahead, because I was way too young, I had very little experience, and I just wasn't in the right place to make that game," Solomon said. "It really took a long time until it made sense for the team and for the company." Plans for XCOM picked up again in 2008, when the team sought to create an upgrade of the original game. The project eventually evolved into 2012's reboot, XCOM: Enemy Unknown. XCOM: Enemy Unknown was released on Oct. 9, 2012, for Windows, Xbox 360 and...

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2013 Game Developers Choice Award nominees led by Journey

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 24, 2013 01.24.13

Journey, thatgamecompany's emotional desert adventure, leads the field of nominees for the 2013 Game Developers Choice Awards, show organizer UBM Tech Game Network announced today. Journey received nods in six categories, including Best Audio, Best Visual Arts and Game of the Year. Also nominated for Game of the Year were Arkane Studios' choose-your-own-revenge-adventure, Dishonored; Telltale Games' zombie apocalypse tale of woe, The Walking Dead; Mass Effect 3, the conclusion to BioWare's space opera; and Firaxis Games' modern strategy revival, XCOM: Enemy Unknown. All five games were nominated in multiple categories. The list of recognized games is a varied group — titles from major publishers and indie studios, as well as consoles and downloadable platforms, are spread across the...

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown developers working on 'really awesome' DLC

By Samit Sarkar on Jan 09, 2013 01.09.13

XCOM: Enemy Unknown publisher 2K Games originally announced two pieces of downloadable content for the strategy game, both of which have now been released, but developer Firaxis Games told Polygon last week that the studio isn't done making XCOM content. The first piece of DLC, the $6.99 Slingshot Content Pack, brought a brief storyline with three new maps into Enemy Unknown's campaign when it launched in early December. Firaxis released the game's Second Wave DLC, which added 16 gameplay tweaks to let players customize their experience, for free yesterday as part of a title update. According to lead designer Jake Solomon, Slingshot and Second Wave aren't the only add-ons Firaxis has planned for XCOM. "We do have more content coming in 2013," he said. "We're working on something...

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Releases
North America
  • Windows
    • Released 10/09/2012
    • Publisher 2K Games
    • Developer Firaxis Games
    • Score 8.5
  • Xbox 360
    • Released 10/09/2012
    • Publisher 2K Games
    • Developer Firaxis Games
    • Score 8.5
  • PlayStation 3
    • Released 10/09/2012
    • Publisher 2K Games
    • Developer Firaxis Games
  • Mac
    • Released 04/25/2013
    • Publisher Feral Interactive
    • Developer Firaxis Games
  • iOS
    • Publisher 2K Games
    • Developer Firaxis Games
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