2K Games launches XCOM: Enemy Within on mobile devices

2K Games and Firaxis Games are announcing today that XCOM: Enemy Within is available for download on a number of mobile devices.

Now this is an exercise in shoehorning a big game into mobile. Take-Two Interactive, which owns the 2K Games label, has been launching a lot of mobile versions of its console games. So has Firaxis, the development studio headed by game design veteran Sid Meier.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.