The Fragile Elegance of XCOM

When I first played XCOM: Enemy Unknown over a decade ago, I was struck by how, despite being Firaxis's first attempt with the property, how fully realized it felt. It was one of those strategy games where every system felt carefully balanced around one another. Each resource - be

Behold, the Last Blog!

It's mid-2026, and the written word, the longest-standing technology, is dead, buried next to a thousand lonely 56k modems, rotary phones, bayonets and bronze axes. Okay, people still use the written word, but writing must be adulterated on social media; platforms like X or Blusky infuse