Ex-XCOM Director To Make New Kind Of Life Sim

The not-quite-packed arena of life sims monopolized by EA (via The Sims) is going to get a bit crowded. Former XCOM franchise & Marvel's Midnight Suns creative director Jake Solomon (via Twitter) has formed a new game development studio called Midsummer Studios alongside veteran developers who worked on XCOM and Civilization. Their first maj...

Our Earth Now Has A Satellite Named XCOM

That's one way to shove in a gaming reference to help Earth out. The US Naval Research Laboratory has launched two new satellites into orbit around the Earth. One is called SPADE and the other... https://twitter.com/USNRL/status/1126080243746340865 ...is XCOM, which is the same name as the turn-based sci-fi strategy title where you defend the Ear...