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The Spike Videogame Awards highlighted Telltale Studios' episodic adventure game The Walking Dead: The Game, giving it the Game of the Year Award, as well as best Downloadable Game, Best Adaptation, Best Voice Actress (Melissa Hutchinson's role as Clementine), and Studio of the Year for Telltale itself.

I'd say something witty here, but there's still some chocolate left to eat...

Firaxis has announced that the third downloadable content pack for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, called Second Wave Content, will be released today for free on Steam, Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network. The Second Wave Content DLC allows fans to replay the campaign after finishing it with new modifiers.

Jake Solomon of Firaxis has revealed that they plan on being less 'content-heavy' and a little more 'system-heavy' with XCOM: Enemy Unknown's next dose of DLC; fans 'want more elements'. Slingshot was the first premium DLC for XCOM, but it wasn't received very well because of its linear nature. The game is a "great platform for more things" in the future, like aliens, items and maps.

Strategy Informer's Game of the Year, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace as a Game on Demand. The game is priced at a full $59.99, and can either be downloaded from the Xbox 360 or from Xbox.com here.

Firaxis lead designer Jake Solomon has described a prototype XCOM remake that was in the works a decade ago. It appears the studio made a brilliant decision to not go ahead with the design.

Take 2 has announced that Borderlands 2 shipped more than 6 million units in 2012 across 3 platforms, which sounds better than the 4M sales it actually sold that year. The sequel has yet to reach the sales of the original game, which moved roughly 5.5M units in its lifetime.

Publisher 2K Games has confirmed that the planned XCOM shooter from 2K Marin is still in the works, with it due in their next fiscal period which runs April 1st, 2013 to March 31st, 2014. The tactical squad-based affair is in development for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U and PC. It originally debuted in April 2010 as a class-based FPS, and before Firaxis revealed XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

During the PAX East 2013 panel hosted by Firaxis, after the developer showed off the iOS version of XCOM: Enemy Unknown (which Firaxis claims will be 100% faithful to the PC version), a short audio clip followed "Hello, Commander", and began to warn of a new threat before getting cut off by static.

Since the outstanding success of Firaxis' reboot XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the XCOM shooter that was announced a few years ago may be getting rebranded.

It's a conspiracy! 2K Games has apparently pulled the website for their announced XCOM shooter, which has already been plunged into uncertainty more times than a probe into someone's [REDACTED]. The official site now returns a 404 error, and the marketing trailers via 2K's YouTube channel have been reclassified as 'private' so they can't be viewed. A G-Man cover-up!

All this new-fangled hardware for the next generation consoles wouldn't typically be something a PC centric developer like Firaxis would care much for, but producer Dennis Shirk says they're paying attention. It's what Microsoft and Sony are coming up with that goes into the machines, like Kinect and PS4's new controllers with 'Move built in'. They're becoming "much more attractive" to PC studios.

The apparent rebranding of XCOM is in full force. After the official site had been closed and new website registrations appeared, a new viral video has popped up claiming that the Russian meteor explosion that occurred this past February was a hoax.

2K Marin has been busy 'evolving' the planned XCOM experience announced way back in 2010. Thanks to Firaxis' XCOM: Enemy Unknown, "the time is right" is explore a new experience in the series. It seems the XCOM shooter has become a "high-stakes narrative" that's imbued with "core XCOM concepts." It's all rather fuzzy as to what that means, but we can expect to hear more soon.

2K Marin's original XCOM shooter has officially been rebranded to The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, which has been hinted at for the past few months with domain name registrations and a teaser video a few days ago.

We are finally getting to know more about what shape the XCOM shooter is taking, and now, thanks to our interview with 2K Games' Nico Bihary, we're learning about some classified material. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, as it is now called, is a third-person shooter affair. We asked how long is the experience? It's a "13-16 hour narrative", but game length depends on the player.

2K Games has released a new trailer for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, and the video is [REDACTED], showing off some of the alien [REDACTED] as Special Agent [REDACTED] is highlighted for the first time, with some brief gameplay teased.

Take 2 has announced that the publisher earned $1.222B for the fiscal year 2013 ending on the 31st March, crediting such titles as BioShock Infinite, MLB 2K13, and Borderlands 2 downloadable content as the chief source, while older titles also drove sales.

2K Games has released a new developer diary for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified featuring the VP of Product Development at 2K Marin, Alyssa Finlay, as she talks about the setting, design and creation of the games universe.

Sony has announced that next week’s PlayStation Store update will feature Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and LittleBigPlanet: Karting free for PlayStation Plus subscribers.