xenonauts posts

This week's announcement of the 2K Marin-developed XCOM has generated some mixed results as fans of the original X-Com turn-based strategy game have wondered why publisher 2K Games decided to make this official revivial a first person shooter.

Hoever, fans of the original X-Com certainly have seen their share of games released that are "spiritual successors", from UFO: Aftermath from Altar Interactive and its two sequels, Aftershock and Afterlife, to Laser Square Nemesis, designed by the original creators of X-Com, Julian Gollop and Nick Gollop. Now comes word of a new game, Xenonauts, that's under development by Goldhawk Interactive. This group of former Crysis modders state on their official web page that "almost everyone on the team is a huge X-Com fan and has spent years awaiting a game that did the original justice." Whether or not they can make that game themselves remains to be seen. They claim that they have been working on Xenonauts for nine months and plan to release it sometime this year.