Original X-COM creator Julian Gollop has played through XCOM: Enemy Unknown and found it to be a great and entertaining game (as we did). But that doesn't mean he wouldn't have done some things differently, and probably failed in the process.
Pretty much every game Firaxis Games has ever developed is prefixed with either "Sid Meier" or "Civilization." But, that changed last year with the release of XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Later this year, the studio dips into yet another original experiment: Haunted Hollow, a free-to-play mobile game.
"Firaxis, like many other game companies, sees mobile as the land of opportunity for expanding and we want to diversify," lead designer David McDonough told Shacknews. "We are traditionally a PC shop, but one cannot live by Civ alone. Firaxis wants to grow as a company creatively, so mobile seems like a great place to try out."
Firaxis, creator of the recent hit XCOM: Enemy Unknown, launches Haunted Hollow for iOS.
Firaxis, creator of the recent hit XCOM: Enemy Unknown, launches Haunted Hollow for iOS.
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