XCOM: Enemy Unknown is peerless in modern game design (review)

October 8, 2012 5:00 AM Rob Savillo
Rob Savillo

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is unlike any game you've ever played before, melding real-time resource management with turn-based, squad-level tactics.

The top 10 games of ‘Pitch us in one Tweet’ (#6: Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion)

September 28, 2012 2:35 PM Rob Savillo
Rob Savillo

We asked indie developers to pitch us a game in one Tweet. Here is the sixth submission, Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion from Witching Hour Studios.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown lead designer discusses original creator’s thoughts on the remake (interview)

March 6, 2012 7:00 AM Rob Savillo
Rob Savillo

X-Com: UFO Defense, a strategy game from the early '90s, is a sort of enigma. Although the original is revered as a masterstroke in design, every stab at a sequel or spiritual successor has fallen short. What about the X-Com formula is so elusive?

When I spoke with Jake Solomon, lead designer for Firaxis Games' XCOM: Enemy Unknown (a "reimagining" of the original), that question weighed heavily on my mind.