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I don't understand why this is a thing, but I'm an Australian and confusion is our natural mental state. XCOM 2 is different enough that even if you didn't like the first Firaxis entry it's worth ...

XCOM 2 puts the player in the role of a Commander in charge of a human army against an alien threat. Along the way, you’ll recruit and add onto your army people of many different nationalities. Each ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In XCOM 2, everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. But that's part of the fun. In Firaxis Games' turn-based strategy sequel, you're constantly ...

After what has felt like the longest week in gaming history since Dawn of War's launch window, XCOM 2 is finally releasing for me, you and the rest of the resistance tonight. In case you're wondering ...

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Update: XCOM 2 has been nominated for IGN's 2016 Game of the Year. There’s an air of white-knuckle desperation about XCOM 2’s post-apocalyptic setting, and it only enhances the tension. Taking place ...

An update has been issued for XCOM 2, fixing a number of bugs, performance issues, and game crashes. Announced in a post to the community section on Steam, this ...

12:03, Thu, Feb 18, 2016 Updated: 12:10, Thu, Feb 18, 2016 The patch automatically downloads via Steam and resolves issues which have been causing crashes and performance problems. In addition to this ...

I didn't expect XCOM 2 to demo particularly well. I fell in love with its predecessor because it gave me the time to grow fond of the soldiers I was commanding and I couldn't see that happening within ...

In my first write-up of XCOM 2 I noted that the game felt a bit chaotic at times. Simply going somewhere on the over-map to grab a supply drop can be interrupted any number of times by research ...