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Firaxis' Haunted Hollow combines monstrous fun with some serious strategy

by Mike Schramm (Mar 28th, 2013)

Hearing that Firaxis Games (the famous studio behind great games like Civilization and XCOM -- which itself is coming to iPad very soon) is making an original game for iOS is very exciting. That game is Haunted Hollow, and I got to see it in action this week at GDC. Lead designers Will Miller ...

Firaxis bringing Haunted Hollow to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Mar 21st, 2013)

Firaxis is one of my favorite game developers -- they're the group behind the Civ series as well as the recent (and excellent) XCOM: Enemy Unknown reboot. Today, they've surprise-announced a game called Haunted Hollow, which is coming to iOS later on this spring. As you'd imagine from Firaxis, ...

XCOM: Enemy Unknown headed to Mac in Elite Edition

by Randy Nelson (Feb 26th, 2013)

Strategy game fans got some great news today with the announcement that XCOM: Enemy Unknown is coming to Mac (can we please call it "OS XCOM" now?) this spring. The highly rated game from Civilization developer Firaxis is being ported to OS X by Feral Interactive from last October's PC release. ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: What's my best bet for international data?

by Erica Sadun (Mar 11th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I will be in China for 10 days on vacation later this year, and I'd like to share photos, updates, etc. with friends at home. What's the best way to do that? I have an iPhone 4 and a Wi-Fi only iPad. As far as I can tell, my options are to either buy into AT&T's ...