XCOM: Enemy Unknown will place you in control of a secret paramilitary organization called XCOM. As the XCOM commander, you will defend against a terrifying global alien invasion by managing resources ...

A video game succeeds when the person playing becomes invested, and that success is something a surprising amount of games fall short of. “XCOM: Enemy Unknown,” on the other hand, exceeds that success ...

Video-game aliens have gotten bigger, uglier and meaner over the years. Think of the Covenant warriors in "Halo" or the Locust Horde in "Gears of War": huge, dumb, slobbering brutes who can soak up ...

I remember playing X-Com: UFO Defense many years ago and losing all the time. I’d get that screen with the three-armed mutant man, and the game would tell me that the alien invaders had enslaved all ...

When it comes to old-school video game publishers scrambling to adapt their wares to an increasingly mobile marketplace, 2K Games has taken an unconventional approach. While rivals like Activision and ...

The return of XCOM is something that, for many years, most ardent fans thought would have been impossible. But just like buses, news of two new games arrived almost at once. The first, simply titled ...

XCOM: Enemy Unknown has been announced by 2K Games. The re-imagining of 1994's UFO: Enemy Unknown will be developed by acclaimed studio Firaxis Games, developer of Civilization IV and Alpha Centauri, ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, victory is sweet--but it's so much sweeter when it arrives after a heart-wrenching standoff. With each turn, the newest entry ...

Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical All the Latest Game Footage and Images from XCOM: Enemy Unknown XCOM: Enemy Unknown should have been a disaster. It's a ...