In a twist that should surprise absolutely no one, one of the biggest iOS games of last year is making its way to Android in the (probably very) near future.Tweets from the official @XCOM account yesterday announced not only that XCOM: Enemy Unknown was coming to Google Play, but that it would be released on April 24th. That tweet was later deleted, with a new one indicating that it was "an error" - though they don't make it clear if the error was the release date or announcing the release date.We're assuming the former, but… we also won't be surprised if we wake up tomorrow morning to find XCOM at the top of the paid games list on Google Play.
You know who's great making PAX East announcements? Firaxis. Last year the studio used the Boston convention to announce the mobile port of XCOM: Enemy Unknown which, yes, managed to live up to the lofty promises they'd made. This year, they decided to go one step further and announce the next entry in everyone's favorite strategy series, Civilization.Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth will take players on a journey into the stars for the very first time (unless you count 1999's spin-off Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, which the devs of Beyond Earth love, but stressed they're going in their "own direction" from in a conversation with Kotaku).Following a series of events that Firaxis refers to as "The Great Mistake," the Earth is looking a little rough around the edges. As a result, humanity sets off to colonize a strange new world. Unlike past games in the series that draw from history, Beyond Earth will be about making choices to shape humanity's future.
As some of you may have noticed, Firaxis's Haunted Hollow appeared and then quickly disappeared from the App Store last week. I suppose it isn't so surprising, seeing as how the word "haunted" is in its title. Regardless, the game has resurfaced on the App Store, and ostensibly is here to stay.
Firaxis has just released a second gameplay trailer for the much-anticipated Facebook game Civilization World, or CivWorld for short, and it shows in detail how the city and technology elements of the game work, and for the first time reveals just what the combat actually looks like.
We've already taken you through the basics of the hotly anticipated Facebook game CivWorld in our hands-on preview, but sometimes words aren't enough. If you want to actually see the game in action developer Firaxis has released a new trailer that does a good job of showing how the game works.