Charles Burgar is an expert on all things tech and gaming. After graduating from Pikes Peak Community College in 2018 with an Associate of Science, Charles spends most of his free time dissecting ...

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 ...

I'm sorry to do this to you, but XCOM 2 came out nine years ago. The world was young, my passport said "European Union" on it, and I had a full head of hair (I still do, but I also did then). Not only ...

XCOM 2 is full of randomised elements to ensure budding Commanders are forced to think on their feet at all times. It's also intent on shaking up tried and tested strategies that existed in its ...

Matt Karoglou is a freelance writer and musician who has been playing video games for 36 years and writing about them for almost as long. When he's not editorializing about the intricacies and ...

Dark Events are special game-changing enhancements in XCOM 2 applied by the aliens to counter XCOM’s and resistance’s operations. These are basically schemes that are executed by the ADVENT, and can ...

In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, I discovered a tell. Very occasionally, when you go to take a shot with one of your soldiers, you're treated to a little cinematic camerawork. This being an XCOM game, half the ...

XCOM 2's new DLC drop is a brilliant little love letter to the fans - and best of all, it's free. I bloody love XCOM 2. For my money it's one of the best tactical games ever, and so it doesn't exactly ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. You're hunkered down behind a beaten-up truck, bleeding from a chest wound. You can hear the labored breathing of one of your squadmates over the ...