Publisher 2K Games has the website and the YouTube videos of Xcom offline. There is since 2005, the game worked, but the development is slow. 2K Games refuses to comment, but the publisher would the game want to ‘rebrand’.
The official website 2K Games in the past few years, information about Xcom posted gives a 404 error. In addition, all the videos of the game on the YouTube-channel of 2K Games were removed. Thus, all official references to the game offline. It is unclear why 2K Games, the references taken offline and what’s the status of the game.
There is since 2005, the game worked. In the first instance by BioShock developer Irrational Games, but 2K Games gave the game in 2007 in the hands of 2K Australia, to the project in 2010 to move to 2K Marin. In 2010, also attended the official announcement and published the first previews of the game. Xcom had a new version of UFO: Enemy Unknown, a strategy game from 1994, on the basis of a series of Xcom games. According to 2K Games would be the new game, however, a shooter that takes place in the same setting as the original. The game plays in 1962, and the player is an FBI agent that investigates aliens that earth would attack. Shortly after the announcement was, however, silent around the project and shifted 2K Games, the attention to Xcom: Enemy Unknown, a strategy game from Firaxis Games, which is much more like a game from 1994. The game of Firaxis came at the end of 2012 on the market.
Rumors about the current status of the Xcom shooter going longer around. So would 2K Games the game want to turn a eerstepersoonschietspel to a derdepersoonschietspel, where the player is no longer a single FBI agent controls, but a small team. In march, explained to 2K Games a number of domain names that could be linked to the Xcom shooter. As explained to the publisher thebureau-game.com, thebureau-game.net, whathappenedin62.com and whathappenedin62.net jam, which would refer to a game around the FBI and events in 1962. The associated websites are not yet active.
Xcom as shown during the E3 of 2010