
Back when XCOM's FPS revamp was announced, the Internet pretty much reacted like earth had taken an apocalyptic probing from an actual extraterrestrial menace. Even optimists slumped their shoulders while suggesting increasingly improbable what-ifs – for instance, “What if Civilization creator Firaxis made a new XCOM strategy game? But that'll never happen, because the world is a miserable place that deserves to be invaded by aliens who specifically exploit the fact that its citizens don't play enough strategy games.” But then it happened. And now we have photographic evidence – of the game, not the aliens.