XCOM

2K Marin's FPS reboot of the revered XCOM has been delayed until next year, according to reports. The claim comes from the latest issue of Game Informer, reported by IGN. It appears that 2K has decided that the Firaxis-developed strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown, announced earlier this month and set for a 2012 release, is a better way to reintroduce the series. More >

Take-Two was hit with a loss of $47.37 million (£29.5 million) in the three months to September 30, as sales more than halved year on year. Net revenue fell 56.3 per cent to $107 million, which the publisher pinned on a quiet quarter for new releases compared to last year, when Mafia II and Civilization V, and Red Dead Redemption's long sales tail, boosted revenues. More >

Speaking to MCV, 2K president Christoph Hartmann defended the company's decision to reboot the beloved strategy series as an FPS. "The 90s generation of gamers all love XCOM and we own the IP, so we thought, okay, what do we do with it? Every studio we had wanted to do it and each one had its own spin on it," he said. "The problem was that turn-based strategy games were no longer the hottest thing on planet Earth. But this is not just a commercial thing - strategy games are just not contemporary. It's not a case of cashing in on the name. We just need to renew it because times are changing."

E3 may technically be over, but no-one told 2K Games, who released the below screenshots overnight. 2K Marin's tactical shooter, the series' first instalment since 2001's X-COM: Enforcer, will be released for Xbox 360, PC and PS3 next March.