Tag: Xcom

Commander, TriForce has retrieved a weapon that could turn the tide of battle into your bank’s favor. It’s a full-scale replica of the Beam Pistol, the best secondary weapon for XCOM 2‘s Sharpshooter class. The replica measures 12.3″ long and weighs 7lb.

Last year we saw The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening partially ported to Microsoft Excel using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Redditor crruzi is also using VBA and Excel to make his own XCOM game. Crruzi says he just learned to use VBA for work and is making EXLCOM to sharpen his skills.

Pandemic is a great game. It’s a co-op game that forces players to really work together, and gives a collective sense of impending disaster. It’s such a good formula that it’s quickly turning into a genre, spawning games like Forbidden Island, and the god-awful World War Z game that was obviously never, ever play-tested.