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Star Wars Zero Company, the tactics game from veteran XCOM devs, confirms August launch and Anakin Skywalker cameo

Star Wars' new strategy game is looking like a winner.

PC Gamer

Star Wars Zero Company confirmed for August release as former XCOM devs debut action-packed gameplay trailer

The release date leaked this week, but now it's a sure thing

GamesRadar

Star Wars Zero Company release date leaks one day before Summer Game Fest, as XCOM veterans' new strategy game joins the crowd avoiding GTA 6

Scary, that Grand Theft Auto is

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40k XCOM-like Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters is getting a sequel and this time we'll get to purge 'seven distinctive enemy factions'

More variety would be nice.

PC Gamer

XCOM is getting a miniatures game from the company that brought Fallout to tabletop

Plastic tactics.

PC Gamer

I’m addicted to checking my phone. Could a blocking device stop me?

Physical phone-blocking devices, powered by NFC wireless technology, are becoming a popular solution for doomscrolling. Brigid Delaney puts one to the test

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10 Best Tactical RPGs to play in 2026

Discover the best tactical RPGs to play today, from Final Fantasy Tactics to Marvel's Midnight Suns

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Xenonauts 2 Beginner’s Guide – Tips, Base Build Order, and How to Survive [1.0]

Updated April 8, 2026: Xenonauts 2 officially launched its 1.0 version on April 2, 2026, after nearly three years in Early Access. The tips below are

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X (Twitter) was down — live updates on the worldwide outage

X was experiencing an outage that took down the "For You" timeline and other features.

Tom’s Guide

Star Wars Zero Company director has 'an axe to grind' with turn-based tactics, says fans don't have to settle for no story, crummy graphics, and clunky controls: 'Depth doesn't cost you elegance'

"How do we do something that makes you feel something as a player, and not just think through a problem?"

PC Gamer

Star Wars Zero Company exists because late Call of Duty co-creator Vince Zampella wanted to know about an XCOM veteran's dream game: "Do you think you can make a Star Wars game with this?"

"I'm thinking, 'This is insane, right? Like, this is crazy. It's Star Wars.'"

GamesRadar

Star Wars Zero Company: Everything we know about the XCOM-inspired Clone Wars game

Bit Reactor's debut is a complicated and exciting beast of a tactics game.

PC Gamer

Star Wars Zero Company devs said 'there were some fights' about its story-centric squadmates suffering permadeath, but accepting that 'Star Wars is about loss' made the game stronger

Hopefully nobody's processing that loss while the Tuskens are around. We know how that goes.

PC Gamer

Star Wars Zero Company will kill story characters, Fire Emblem-style: Narrative lead says "I lost an argument about permadeath, and it was good that I did"

"Star Wars is about loss," after all

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Star Wars Zero Company is more than just 'Star Wars XCOM'—it feels like Mass Effect but with turn-based tactics and permadeath

This Clone Wars tactics game from former XCOM devs may end up 2026's biggest surprise.

PC Gamer

PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: Star Wars Zero Company

Plus, Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy, 1348 Ex Voto, Tyr, Esoteric Ebb, Brave New Wonders, Darkhaven, Warhounds, Ghost Recon Wildlands, PC cases tested, and much more, too

Tom’s Guide

X was briefly down for thousands — here's how the outage unfolded

Elon Musk's X.com suffered a brief but noteworthy outage impacting thousands of users. Here's what you need to know.

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Throwback XCOM successor Xenonauts 2 leaves early access in April, though the developer says the milestone 'doesn't mean our work is done'

"We're planning to continue improving and patching the game after launch."

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Dispatch is lying to you about RNG for your own good, just like XCOM: "Those guys are pretty smart, so we thought we'd do the same"

Adhoc "landed on anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed"

PC Gamer

Just like XCOM, superhero comedy Dispatch cheats random percentages of success in the player's favor: 'anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed'

"If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?"

Reason

Reproducing Controversial Tweet in News Story = Fair Use

An excerpt from Judge Andrew Carter's opinion Friday in Shaykhoun v. Daily Mail (S.D.N.Y.): Sonya Shaykhoun ("Plaintiff") is a licensed… The post Reproducing Controversial Tweet in News Story = Fair Use appeared first on Reason.com.

Tom’s Guide

X was down — here's what happened during the massive outage

X.com was experiencing a huge global outage. Here's what happened.

PC Gamer

219 hours of XCOM 2 and 20 minutes of Fallout: Size Five Games' director Dan Marshall takes us through the games on his PC

The co-creator of the Swindle, Lair of the Clockwork God and Earth Must Die gives us the lowdown on his gaming tastes.

PC Gamer

XCOM 2 is 10 years old, and 2K is celebrating with a free weekend and a 95% discount on Firaxis' masterful sequel

Try one of the best games ever for nothing, then grab it for less than the price of a coffee.

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After losing 92 soldiers in Menace, I'll never call XCOM brutal again

Now Playing | This new turn-based strategy game makes XCOM look positively fluffy in comparison

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