I had originally intended to start this review with an anecdote drawn from my experiences in Wasteland 3. My problem, then, is that any such story may just spoil one of the many fantastic vignettes or moments that can crop up in your playthrough. So let me instead begin with a rapid fire series of
XCOM
XCOM was one of the first PC games to hook me. I fell in love with its tense moments, challenging tactics, and base building. I felt horrible when my units died, and screamed with rage when they missed high accuracy attacks. In fact, XCOM was really my introduction into turn-based tactics, a genre that I
Desperados 3 is a stealth tactics game featuring a memorable cast of Wild West characters. It’s also an oddly titled prequel to a series that started in 2001. It’s also an example of how effective “less-is-more” storytelling can be, even in a genre that usually puts the narrative on the backburner. Most importantly, Desperados 3
The lineup of big releases for this spring has spread through a lot of different genres, from intense action games like Resident Evil 3 and Half-Life: Alyx, to platformers like Ori and the Will of the Wisps, to sprawling RPGs like Final Fantasy VII Remake and Persona 5 Royal. However, this week seems to be the time for strategy
XCOM: Chimera Squad is quite the pleasant surprise. It was announced without fanfare just a few days ago, slated to release less than a fortnight later. The dislikes on the reveal videos suggest that people were unhappy with it though, and I don’t exactly blame them. With the hints and setup for an XCOM 3?
Of all the curveballs being thrown around in news recently, this isn’t one that I or maybe anyone else expected. Firaxis just went ahead and put up a page on Steam for a new XCOM title, officially dubbed XCOM: Chimera Squad. Here’s the kicker – it’s coming out next week, April 24. The game is more
Usually, when a game launches into early access, I do my best to admire it from afar. It’s not that I have anything against playing games still in active development. It’s just that I worry if I dive into an early access game, I won’t want to play the final version. The sheer number of
Usually, when a game launches into early access, I do my best to admire it from afar. It’s not that I have anything against playing games still in active development. It’s just that I worry if I dive into an early access game, I won’t want to play the final version. The sheer number of
It looks like Catherine: Full Body and XCOM 2 are headed to the Switch. Both titles were rated for Nintendo’s platform by the Korean Game Rating and Administration Committee last month, and the listings were spotted by ResetEra member sinonobu Sunday morning. BioShock: The Collection, which was recently rated in Taiwan, also appeared in the
Take-Two Interactive owns notables developers and publishers like Rockstar Games, 2K and Private Division, and it has reported positive results for its performance in Q2 2019. While Take-Two’s financial results statement revealed things such as the release window for the Nintendo Switch port of The Outer Worlds, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick also teased what games
RuneHeads, the independent developer behind 2017’s Fall of Light, announced today that it will once again be partnering with publisher 1C Entertainment for it next game: Conglomerate 451. It’s an interesting mix of cyberpunk, first person dungeon crawling, and elements you’d expect to see in an XCOM game, so Conglomerate 451 has definitely made its