{"id":1129878,"date":"2026-02-03T04:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/x-coms-creator-believes-the-strategy-genres-in-dire-need-of-innovation-and-his-new-game-is-his-attempt"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:03:49","slug":"x-coms-creator-believes-the-strategy-genres-in-dire-need-of-innovation-and-his-new-game-is-his-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/x-coms-creator-believes-the-strategy-genres-in-dire-need-of-innovation-and-his-new-game-is-his-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"X-COM&#8217;s creator believes the strategy genre&#8217;s in dire need of innovation, and his new game is his attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/x-coms-creator-believes-the-strategy-genres-in-dire-need-of-innovation-and-his-new-game-is-his-attempt.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We still haven&#8217;t quite managed to form a bridgehead yet,&#8221; says Jullian Gollop, creator of the original X-COM (before Firaxis went and remade it as XCOM (no hyphen) in 2012). He and I are beating back waves of brain-in-a-jar aliens in co-op in his new game, Chip &#8216;n Clawz vs. The Brainioids, and this is the second time he&#8217;s mentioned the bridgehead, causing me to detect just the tiniest bit of tension in his voice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/x-coms-creator-believes-the-strategy-genres-in-dire-need-of-innovation-and-his-new-game-is-his-attempt\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/x-coms-creator-believes-the-strategy-genres-in-dire-need-of-innovation-and-his-new-game-is-his-attempt\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We still haven&#8217;t quite managed to form a bridgehead yet,&#8221; says Jullian Gollop, creator of the original X-COM (before Firaxis went and remade it as XCOM (no hyphen) in 2012). He and I are beating back waves of brain-in-a-jar aliens in co-op in his new game, Chip &#8216;n Clawz vs. The Brainioids, and this is the second time he&#8217;s mentioned the bridgehead, causing me to detect just the tiniest bit of tension in his voice. 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