Project lead Brad Muir and designer John Swisshelm from Double Fine have released an hour long Skype call they had with XCOM: Enemy Unknown's Jake Soloman, discussing the return of turn-based strategy. It's a pre-production exchange of platitudes, ideas and cussing. With turn-based tactical strategy getting popular again, will the future be plagued by 'turn-based bros'? If so, blame/thank Soloman.
Third-person tactical squad shooter The Bureau: XCOM Declassified will be receiving exclusive DLC for Xbox 360, announces 2K Games. The new content is described as 'narrative-driven'. The first piece of DLC is going only to Xbox 360, but other releases will also reach PS3 and PC. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is out mid-August, with pre-order side-missions.
2K Games has announced that the first DLC pack coming to The Bureau: XCOM Declassified will be an Xbox 360 exclusive. The company also announced free content for preorders.
2K Marin's creative director Jordan Thomas is leaving the world of AAA publisher titles to start a 2 man indie studio. Thomas had worked on BioShock 2 and the upcoming The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
2K has released a new trailer for third-person tactical shooter The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, which spotlights the agents that will be our 'Last Defence' against the alien menace threatening Earth. It's the job of Special Agent William Carter and his team to keep the extra-terrestrial ruckus under wraps, while simultaneously thwarting an invasion. It's got some teasing gameplay shots.
One of the more depressing trailers released this year, 2K Games has released "The Choice" for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, where Agent Ennis Cole isn't dealing with the death of his wife and young son in a raid on a small town by aliens.
Earlier today, Agent Ennis Cole was choosing between a gun and a bottle over the death of his wife and son at the hands of an alien invasion in a The Bureau: XCOM Declassified trailer.
Well, the votes are in for the The Bureau: XCOM Declassified poll, and according to 2K Games, the Twitter vote for whether Agent Ennis Cole should take the bottle or the gun was an extremely narrow one, with the winner nabbing 51% of the vote.
Our suicidal Agent Ennis Cole, after having to deal with his wife and son get blasted by an alien invasion, decides to go after the extra-terrestrials himself. Of course, as the The Bureau: XCOM Declassified press release states, "is he the predator or the prey?"
XCOM just wouldn't be XCOM without permadeath, and that means rubbish leaders start piling up the body bags. 2K Games has released a new trailer highlighting the perils of Federal agents fighting aliens.
The mantra of 'You Only Live Once' is explored in this probe tongue in cheek teaser for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, which is a third-person tactical squad shooter out late August.
Looks like there's a followup to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, as the title "XCOM: Enemy Within" has appeared both on the Steam database and the South Korean classification board. The latter lists PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions.
Keen eyes have uncovered the conspiracy of something called 'XCOM: Enemy Within' that was hidden within the Steam database, and even listed via the South Korean ratings board. Naturally everyone is puzzled as to what it could be. Is it DLC? An expansion? A sequel? A spin-off? Well whatever it is, 2K has said they're "looking forward" to August 21st.
Web news! Take-Two are petitioning the World Intellectual Property Organisation to try and wrestle control of the GTAV.com domain, which is currently owned by a Spanish resident and is up for sale. Presently the address redirects to Rockstar Games' GTA V feed, but was originally a fansite. Also the recently registered HungoverX by Take-Two isn't GTA related, but XCOM.
Gamescom is looking mighty fine right now for a major reveal of something XCOM related as the Steam database has just added thirty new achievement entries to XCOM: Enemy Unknown. All are without title or description. Unless your able to decipher the meaning behind 'Achievement_74' and so on, it seems we'll have to bide our time skulking in our undisclosed XCOM base locations beneath the surface.
The final live-action episode for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified concludes the fate of the town of ambushed Agent Cole, as well as the fate of the Bozo-like clown.
Creative Director Morgan Gray of 2K Marin's The Bureau: XCOM Declassified details the "6 Ts of XCOM" that they pursued to keep the third-person squad-based tactical shooter faithful to the XCOM universe. The 6 Ts refer to Team, Tactics, Technology, Tools, Terror, and Tension. Gray attributes The Bureau acting out in real-time for ratcheting up the T for Tension. It releases next week on PC and console.
During a Reddit AMA with the developer 2K Marin about its upcoming first person shooter The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, the five members of the studio admitted that the game had been announced too early.
2K Games has released their launch trailer for the imminently due The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. In this 'Survive, Adapt, Win' trailer we get debriefed on humanities need to fight back. There are some teasing gameplay shots thrown in, as the newly formed XCOM adapts alien weaponry for their own use. The Bureau: XCOM Declassified releases tomorrow in North America.
2K Games and Firaxis have released an announcement trailer for XCOM: Enemy Within, which boasts whole new mechanics, enemies and challenges across an "additional 47 maps." Gene Mods can apply alien tech directly to our squads, or how about a Mechanized Exoskeletal Cybersuit (MEC) for dominating the field? Two new alien classes are introduced.