I'll take virtually any excuse to dip back into XCOM 2 for another dozen or four hours. (Let's be honest: sometimes I don't need any excuse at all.) This week, Firaxis has provided me with a pretty ...

To say that the return of XCOM earlier this century was a mess is a bit of an understatement. In the end, we got the fantastic XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Before that, we had to endure 2K announcing a third ...

The Templars are the weirdest faction in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. Heavily reliant on psionic abilities, and armed with killer glowing psychic blades, they’re all about rushing directly into melee ...

It was around the 20-hour mark that I realized I had been playing XCOM 2: War of the Chosen completely wrong. You see, when you’re playing a game for review there’s an urge to see everything. Not in a ...

Update January 10, 2017: we've learned more about Long War 2 and how it will iterate on its predecessor. Last week we learned that The Long War, by far the most popular mod for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, is ...

A huge community modding project for turn-based strategy game XCOM 2 is almost complete. XCOM 2: The Long War of the Chosen is a complete overhaul of both the base XCOM 2 game and the popular Long War ...

There's this magical moment that all XCOM 2 players experience. A member of your elite squad of sci-fi planetary defenders holds their machine gun right up at the face of some alien foe, probably a ...

When it was released, XCOM 2 was a fantastic tactical combat game with an ambitious and occasionally frustrating strategic layer. The complex interactions of the various global systems in the game ...

For those looking for something that is more a quality of life mod, then try this numerical health by -bg-. This will let you always know how much health your allies and enemies will have without ...