The Wertzone

Electronic Arts and Respawn Entertainment have confirmed they are working on three brand-new Star Wars  video games. First up is Star Wars ...

Following  rumours from the start of the summer , Firaxis have confirmed they are making a Marvel tie-in game. Midnight Suns  melds the tur...

2040. Five years ago, the XCOM resistance movement successfully defeated the alien Ethereals and liberated Earth from their control. However...

2K Games have surprise-announced a brand new game in the XCOM franchise which will be released in just ten days. XCOM: Chimera Squad  is a ...

Phoenix Point , the new game from the original creator of X-COM , has a finalised release date and it's pleasingly soon: 3 September 201...

The alien occupation of Earth, aided by the ADVENT military force, continues unabated. XCOM, the organisation committed to defending Earth f...

Released back in 2016, XCOM 2  was a worthy, if flawed, sequel to the classic 2012 turn-based strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown (itself a r...

The annual paen to shiny graphics and explosions, E3, is underway in Los Angeles at the moment. It's the year's biggest video game e...

Julian Gollop, the creator of the original X-COM  series of games (and an unofficial advisor on the modern XCOM  reboots), is currently ...

Julian Gollop should need no introduction to hardened strategy game players. Back in the late 1980s he developed Laser Squad and Lords of C...

2035. Twenty years ago, aliens invaded Earth. An elite military organisation was formed to stop them: XCOM. It failed. Despite a heroic effo...

Earth is under alien attack and it is up to the multinational defence organisation XCOM to defeat the invaders. But the aliens are now emplo...

Firaxis and Take Two have announced that XCOM 2 , the sequel to 2012's XCOM: Enemy Unknown and its expansion, Enemy Within , will be r...

1962. The Cold War is at its height. In great secrecy, President John F. Kennedy has ordered the founding of the Bureau of Operations and Co...

Slingshot is a DLC  - or minor expansion - for last year's hugely successful turn-based strategy game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown . It shouldn...

Firaxis have confirmed they are working on a major expansion and overhaul to XCOM: Enemy Unknown . Entitled XCOM: Enemy Within , the game w...

Or, more accurately, the old XCOM first-person shooter has been rejigged as a third-person action game and will be out in August. Th...

Polygon.com have an excellent article here on the making of the recent strategy game (and my top game of 2012) XCOM . Lead designer Jake So...

Once more unto the breach! Best Novels 1. Existence by David Brin David Brin returns after a long absence with a sweeping, state...