XCOM developer Firaxis will reveal "several" new games this year - blacksuall1971

XCOM developer Firaxis volition let on "several" new games this year

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XCOM and Civilization developer Firaxis Games will show "several electric projects" this year.

Yesterday on May 18, Firaxis Games publishing house Take-Two held a full-yr earnings call (as written by VGC), where CEO Strauss Zelnick distinct the emerging of the developer. "As a resolution of the interlocking from the past Eastern Samoa well atomic number 3 the success of XCOM Chimera Squad and XCOM 2 on Switch, Firaxis games had one of its uncomparable years ever," Zelnick said. "We anticipate this growth to continue as the studio apartment has various electric projects in development that will be disclosed this twelvemonth."

Right forthwith, we have no clew as to what these new projects from Firaxis Games could potentially be. Could the developer constitute working on the third entrance in their rebooted XCOM series? Surgery could they be about to reveal the future publish in the traditional Civilization franchise? Alternatively, the developer could be working on an entirely new IP, for all we know.

Elsewhere in the earnings call, Zelnick revealed that Civilisation 6 regular active agent users have seen a firm increase since it launched five years past, and has now surpassed 11 million copies sold-out. That's lead to the 30-class-old Culture series selling over 57 million units conglomerate, as Zelnick additionally disclosed in the remuneration telephone, a staggering figure for the long-running series.

Firaxis isn't the only Take in-Two-owned company getting ready to uncover brand-new games. IT was unconcealed in the same earnings call forth that Borderlands developer Gearbox is getting ready to launch an entirely new franchise by the end of the current financial year. Put differently, we'll be seeing a brand new propose from the developer free at some point before April 2022. This, plus the newsworthiness that Rockstar Games is getting prompt to release the native PS5 and Xbox Serial X ports of GTA 5 this Nov, means it's a busy prison term for Take-Two.

For a full view all the games presently scheduled to plunge over the future few months, principal over to our brand-new games 2021 guide for more.

Hirun Cryer is a freelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ settled out of U.K. After earning a degree in American History specializing in journalism, cinema, lit, and history, He stepped into the games writing world, with a focus on shooters, indie games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time he freelances with other outlets around the diligence, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and Zanzibar copal.