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 ...

An all-new XCOM game gets announced 10 years after the widely acclaimed XCOM 2, but long-time fans might not be thrilled ...

Tactical combat fits into just about any videogame setting. The Commandos series takes place during the Second World War. Mimimi Productions set Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun in feudal Japan, ...

A new turn-based tactics game is always welcome, and it's even more so when it comes with a unique premise and art style. That seems to be the case with Dice Gambit, which combines XCOM-style strategy ...

Tactical RPG fans have a new XCOM and Jagged Alliance spiritual successor to look forward to when Warhounds releases on Steam later this year.

A group of Firaxis Games veterans has announced a brand new Maryland-based studio called Bit Reactor which will be focused on turn-based strategy games. Bit Reactor will be headed up by former Firaxis ...

Few tactical shooters stack up to XCOM. The venerable sci-fi series is considered best-in-class for the genre, thanks to a formula calcified in the widely praised XCOM: Enemy Unknown and its equally ...