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Posted June 14, 2011
How can this be a GOG site without XCOM? Blasphemy!
Posted June 14, 2011
Intellectual property rights

The trademark for the X-COM name was filed on May 25, 1995, by MicroProse Software. Following the acquisition and subsequent merger of MicroProse with Hasbro Interactive, the X-COM intellectual property was also transferred to Hasbro Interactive on August 19, 1998. Due to financial difficulties, 100% of Hasbro Interactive was sold to the French concern Infogrames Entertainment SA on January 29, 2001; as part of this transfer, the X-COM IP was legally transferred to Infogrames on December 21, 2001 (shortly thereafter, Infogrames was renamed Atari Inc., able to do this since acquiring several Atari IPs from Hasbro Interactive). In 2005 Atari transferred several IPs to Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.[5] and X-COM was transferred with them on June 12, 2005. The X-COM IP is currently owned by Take-Two and its subsidiaries;[6] in 2007 there were unconfirmed rumors that Irrational Games (who are owned by Take-Two) were developing a new X-COM title.[7]
In May 2007, a representative of 2K Games (a subsidiary of Take-Two) declared on the Steam forums that they had inherited the X-COM franchise. In light of this, 2K Games re-released Terror from the Deep on Steam with support for Windows XP only (in October 2008, an update was released through Steam, which enabled Windows Vista support for Terror from the Deep). In September 2008, UFO Defense, Apocalypse, Interceptor, and Enforcer were re-released with support for Windows XP and Windows Vista available on Steam and Gamersgate among others. As of June 2010, 2K Games subsidiary 2K Marin is developing the new X-COM game, XCOM.
2K did not sign with GOG so far. Why? Ask 2K.
Posted June 14, 2011
Well. That ends that...
Posted June 14, 2011
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willwagoner: How can this be a GOG site without XCOM? Blasphemy!
It's X-COM. XCOM is the upcoming unreleased shooter no X-COM fans give a crap about.
Posted June 14, 2011
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willwagoner: How can this be a GOG site without XCOM? Blasphemy!
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cw8: It's X-COM. XCOM is the upcoming unreleased shooter no X-COM fans give a crap about.
XCOM (the shooter) looks so horribly bad that I do not even acknowledge on a normal basis that it exists. Thus, when i say XCOM, I mean the original, classic X-COM games. Let us not differentiate and defile the name for the embarassment that is that upcoming shooter.
Posted June 14, 2011
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willwagoner: XCOM (the shooter) looks so horribly bad that I do not even acknowledge on a normal basis that it exists. Thus, when i say XCOM, I mean the original, classic X-COM games. Let us not differentiate and defile the name for the embarassment that is that upcoming shooter.
Now now. XCOM may not look like X-COM, but it actually looks rather fantastic as its own game.
Posted June 14, 2011
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cw8: It's X-COM. XCOM is the upcoming unreleased shooter no X-COM fans give a crap about.
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willwagoner: XCOM (the shooter) looks so horribly bad that I do not even acknowledge on a normal basis that it exists. Thus, when i say XCOM, I mean the original, classic X-COM games. Let us not differentiate and defile the name for the embarassment that is that upcoming shooter.
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willwagoner: XCOM (the shooter) looks so horribly bad that I do not even acknowledge on a normal basis that it exists. Thus, when i say XCOM, I mean the original, classic X-COM games. Let us not differentiate and defile the name for the embarassment that is that upcoming shooter.
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Taleroth: Now now. XCOM may not look like X-COM, but it actually looks rather fantastic as its own game.
Why Taleroth why do you defend it?
Posted June 14, 2011
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Arianus: Why Taleroth why do you defend it?
It looks like a pretty fun game. It looks to be following 2K's trend of having an interesting narrative and some creative gimmicks.

Sadly, outside of 2K, only people who've done that are one title from Raven.
Posted June 14, 2011
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Taleroth: Now now. XCOM may not look like X-COM, but it actually looks rather fantastic as its own game.
Indeed, I think it looks great.
Posted June 14, 2011
If EA can work it out with GOG, so can 2K
Posted June 14, 2011
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rjspring: If EA can work it out with GOG, so can 2K
If GOG can get EA they can do whatever the hell they want.

And they did!
Posted June 14, 2011
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rjspring: If EA can work it out with GOG, so can 2K
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Fuzzyfireball: If GOG can get EA they can do whatever the hell they want.

And they did!
I'll believe that when Half-Life 2 shows up on GOG. :p
Post edited June 14, 2011 by Sielle
Posted June 14, 2011
I think everyone shoud take a shot whenever these request threads pop up.
Posted June 14, 2011
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strixo: I think everyone shoud take a shot whenever these request threads pop up.
My liver would like to tell you to go F* yourself for even suggesting that. Yet my local liquor store would like to thank you profusely.
Posted June 14, 2011
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cw8: It's X-COM. XCOM is the upcoming unreleased shooter no X-COM fans give a crap about.
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willwagoner: XCOM (the shooter) looks so horribly bad that I do not even acknowledge on a normal basis that it exists. Thus, when i say XCOM, I mean the original, classic X-COM games. Let us not differentiate and defile the name for the embarassment that is that upcoming shooter.
Defile the name of classics like Xcom Interceptor and Enforcer? :o)
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