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XCOM 2 Coming To Consoles This September

XCOM 2 Coming To Consoles This September

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Firaxis, the development studio behind games such as Sid Meier’s Civilization, has revealed that XCOM 2 is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this September. A team called The Workshop, which has been built up by former members of the Cal of Duty studio Treyarch, will handle the port. Along with a trailer showing off the game running on a PlayStation 4, the developer also gave a specific release date of September 6th in North America and September 9th for the rest of the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RBUxwex3wc As previously reported by The Paranoid Gamer, Firaxis only intended to release the game on the PC despite the fact that its predecessor had been successful on home consoles. This was largely down to the fact that the development team were more comfortable developing a title for PC and because many of the features they wanted to include didn’t seem possible on either the Xbox or PlayStation consoles when they began working on XCOM 2. XCOM 2 originally launched in February 2016 and

2K Games Officially Announces XCOM 2

2K Games Officially Announces XCOM 2

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2K Games have been teasing an AAA title for several weeks now and they have finally revealed exactly what that game is with the announcement of XCOM 2.  The sequel to the 2012 turn-based strategy game is being developed by Firaxis Games, who are better known for the Civilization series but also worked on the last entry in the franchise. Last week the publisher launched a website for the Advent Administration that advertised new urban cities that offered gene therapies and DNA splicing for people looking to get rid of illnesses. The website portrayed these new cities as the future of humanity but warnings from apparent hackers littered the site, suggesting that the Advent cities might not have been the perfect places to live. While it was clear that the website was a marketing campaign for a new game, many believed that it may have been for a possible new BioShock game. Thanks to the information released by 2K Games though we now know that the Advent Administration is an

Sid Meier Reveals New Game Called Starships

Sid Meier Reveals New Game Called Starships

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Sid Meier’s development team Firaxis has announced that it is working on a brand new game known as Starships. The press release revealing the game describes it as an interstellar strategy game that will release on the PC, Mac and iPad in the coming months. It will tasks players with designing and building starships as they look to expand an empire and explore the galaxy. “When designing Starships, I was intrigued by the idea of exploring the next chapter in the story of Civilization: Beyond Earth. What happens after we colonize our new home and eventually build starships to take to the stars? What has become of our long-lost brothers and sisters from the planet Earth?” said Sid Meier. “My goal was to create an experience that focuses on starship design and combat within a universe filled with interstellar adventure, diplomacy, and exploration.” While separate from the Civilization franchise, the above quote from Meier and the description given in the press release reveal that it will share some common concepts

Sid Meier's Starships Zooming Out for 2015 Release

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2K Games and Firaxis Games have officially announced that the new turn-based strategy game from Sid Meier, Starships, is due out later this year for Windows PC, Mac and iOS. In addition, 2K Games released a new announcement trailer, featuring the game’s opening cinematic intro sequence, which is available below. The game is a companion piece to Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth and is set in the same universe. The game is set after the age of the Seeding. Starships will be a standalone experience that offers cross-connectivity with Beyond Earth. Players will be able to go to new worlds and participate in missions to save and protect planets and their inhabitants from Space Pirates, Marauders and various hostile factions. Players will be able to build a planetary federation in order to strengthen their fleet and secure their homeworld. The game will have multiple paths to victory. Players can conquer threats unite worlds in the name of peace. Starships will feature dynamically generated maps, victory conditions and enemies. Each mission

Civilization: Beyond Earth gameplay is a departure from the series

Civilization: Beyond Earth gameplay is a departure from the series

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Firaxis have released a brand new trailer for Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth that focuses on the gameplay changes they have made to the turn-based strategy game. While Beyond Earth is still part of the Civilization series, it is also a spiritual successor to an earlier Sid Meier game, Alpha Centauri, which originally launched in 1999. It’s not a surprise then that the latest entry does not have as much in common with its Civilization predecessors as players might have initially expected. Apart from the obvious change in that Beyond Earth takes place in a radically different environment compared to previous instalments, there are a number of important modifications to mechanics and features. Key among them is the new ‘affinities’ system that gives unique victory condition depending on the affinity chosen as well as altering the way that your cities look and react to in-game events. The technology tree has also been overhauled. Rather than a single top-down linear tree, research will be focused on a complex technology web that