[Firaxis Games' XCOM: Enemy Unknown announced!]

Screenshots of the new chrysalids, and some more gameplay information.

[[Ground combat] Shooting self?]

I just fired a machine gun at the square you see the cursor over (to clear out the window, didn't mean to take out the whole wall...) and my xenonaut just died. I think he must have hit himself, or reaction fire that bugged so it didn't show any indication that it occurred.

EDIT: Also both those casualties were shown as wounded in the base until the chinook returned. (Unfortunately both died. They weren't that hurt and I thought the chance to survive would be fairly high on merely normal, but oh well)

[Kickstarter Goes Live!]

How about Jagged Alliance 2 then? that's nice example of soldiers and mercs slightly swaying their guns, breathing and so on, while in turn based combat. So it doesn't look like a still picture.

While that sort of thing would be nice, what 'd really like to see is something like Silent Storm where everyone looks like they are in the middle of whatever they were doing once they've finished, which makes the battlefield look like a freeze frame of a real time battle rather than the artificial turn based it is. No idea how possible that would be though.

[Kickstarter Goes Live!]

While I've already pre-ordered and don't really have to cash to go for a higher tier so I won't be contributing to the kickstarter I'm very glad it's been going so well, and hope that success continues. Near 50% already may not be DFA level, but it's still really good.

[Where do you put your bases?]

The USSR and Europe are big funders, and near to some lesser funders like Northern Africa. I've found a base in Greece gives good coverage, and I know a little bit of Greek mythology which I can use to name the base and aircraft.

[Proposed Kickstarter reward tiers!]

Looks good, though I do agree with some of the comments above. Grim Dawn appears to have something set up where current pre-orderers can credit the value of their pre-order towards higher level reward tiers, I assume you will do the same?

[[9.31 - geoscape] mig financing]

I got the same bug- but only when I hadn't put any technicians towards building the MIG, with it otherwise working fine. Why didn't I have any technicians making it? Because of a bug where after making a MIG the workshop space and technicians used are permanently unavailable.

[[9.2 Aerial Combat] Starting air and ground combat simultaneously]

I had my Chinook reach a crashed UFO while my interceptors reached a flying one at what the game appeared to believe was the same time. I ended up in a ground combat with the aerial combat screen in the background. While that wasn't really a problem when I returned to the geoscape time wouldn't advance. I couldn't find any way to continue it.

[DF Discussion]

There's a lot of adventure mode relevant stuff, for which I'm very glad since I gave up on fortress mode due to the 'new' (well 2 years old now) military screen. I guess I'll try to take down/become a vampire, werebeast and necromancer. Having to deal with hunger and thirst might make things a little trickier, but hopefully it will add to rather than detract from the fun.

[Firaxis Games' XCOM: Enemy Unknown announced!]

Another article on the firaxis XCOM

[Build V8 Preview!]

Looking forward to the new build, but unfortunately the type of download desura uses is seriously throttled for me.

So could be a while before I can play it