Firaxis veterans form new strategy game studio Bit Reactor
A group of lead developers and other creatives from Firaxis have formed a new studio called Bit Reactor. Greg Foertsch is the co-founder of...
Marvel’s Midnight Suns — the rumored XCOM game — is real
As rumored, Firaxis is giving Marvel the XCOM treatment. Take-Two announced Marvel’s Midnight Suns during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live show today. It is launching...
MicroProse returns with 3 new games coming to Steam
One of standout developers from the early days of PC gaming is back. MicroProse announced its return today along with three new games that...
XCOM: Chimera Squad is a standalone followup to XCOM 2
Humans and aliens are working together in the new XCOM: Chimera Squad game, but you know not everyone is happy about that. Publisher 2K...
2K launches Cloud Chamber game studio to make the next BioShock game
2K Games has announced today the founding of Cloud Chamber, a new Take-Two Interactive development studio that will make the next BioShock game. Based in...
Civilization VI: Gathering Storm makes the environment your enemy
Firaxis announced the next expansion for its strategy game Civilization VI today. Gathering Storm is coming February 14 and will focus on natural disasters...
Civilization VI: Rise and Fall review — loyalty has a price
My new favorite aspect of Civilization is watching my empire’s symbol flash under a city as it prepares to transfer its Loyalty from its...
Rise and Fall’s Loyalty system will get me back into Civilization VI
Like GamesBeat managing editor Jason Wilson, I fell off of Civilization VI surprisingly early. But while Steam Workshop mods helped him sink more than...
GamesBeat Rewind 2017: the 10 best strategy games
2017 was a strange, though good, year for strategy games. After the sensational 2016, with five major releases and some fascinating indie games, this...
Civilization VI’s first expansion — Rise and Fall — is coming February 8
2K and Firaxis announced today that Civilization VI is getting its first expansion. Rise and Fall will come out for the PC strategy game...