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  • Would You Play A Life Sim From The Designer Of XCOM?

    Would You Play A Life Sim From The Designer Of XCOM?

    David Smith

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    Jake Solomon is a big name in turn-based strategy. The lead designer on Firaxis’ XCOM series departed the company after shipping last year’s excellent and woefully underplayed Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Now, he says in an interview on the My Perfect Console podcast, that he’s interested in opening a new studio to work on games that spark…

  • Marvel’s Midnight Suns Has Been Rated In Australia

    Marvel’s Midnight Suns Has Been Rated In Australia

    David Smith

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    The Australian Classification Board has handed down its rating for Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Midnight Suns is an upcoming tactical RPG from XCOM and Civilization studio Firaxis Games. While little gameplay has seen the light of day so far, it appears to be a character-focused, squad-based tactics game similar to XCOM: Chimera Squad. Players create a squad of…

  • 6 Games To Check Out If You Like XCOM

    6 Games To Check Out If You Like XCOM

    Ari Notis

    Few tactical shooters stack up to XCOM. The venerable sci-fi series is considered best-in-class for the genre, thanks to a formula calcified in the widely praised XCOM: Enemy Unknown and its equally praised successor, XCOM 2. (The spinoff XCOM: Chimera Squad, released in 2020, is fine.)