Surprise: You didn’t beat the aliens – they steamrolled you. Enemy Unknown was a success that demanded a follow up, and it’s our great pleasure to announce that it’s getting one in XCOM 2 ...

XCOM 2: Alien Hunters has gone and turned them against me. This DLC pack brings in three new major enemies that don’t just soak up more damage, they tilt fundamental concepts of combat in their ...

although if the aliens can deactivate nukes, they should have no problems deactivating those Xcom commandos boarding their ship. Another might be fear that the aliens would retaliate with even ...

For some reason, despite the fact that I rather like the Alien film franchise and absolutely bloody love the squad-based tactics best exemplified by XCOM, Aliens: Dark Descent wasn’t really on ...

In XCOM 2, a sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, you are part of a special forces unit dubbed XCOM. The aliens have conquered Earth, and some humans working for the Advent Coalition are collaborating ...

The chance to play as the aliens in XCOM is one of the most frequent community requests, but creative director Jake Solomon is sceptical that it could be made to work. Should you pick it up?

2K and Firaxis Games have announced the second DLC pack for XCOM 2, called Alien Hunters, will be available on May 12. Alien Hunters features a narrative-driven mission, new weapons and armor, ...

This is harder than it sounds because XCOM 2 has more of everything - from horrible aliens all the way down to different flavors of ammo. And when you're finally in a position to put all this ...

Aliens have ruled the Earth for 15 years, you know? XCOM 2's core game takes place on small maps split into grid spaces. As commander, you take small squads of soldiers — first four, then five ...

Sectoids are fairly easy to kill off, but they’ll cause groans to emit from any XCOM 2 players because of their special abilities. They use an alien blaster seldomly and often just resort to ...

Find out more about how we evaluate games and hardware. Just when you think life in XCOM is hard enough, the aliens send super-powered specialists to steal your money, take your soldiers and taunt ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from XCOM 2: Alien Hunters Transform XCOM soldiers into an elite alien hunting squad and face off against new alien Rulers. Now Available. All the big Star ...