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The Most Underrated and Overlooked Marvel Game Is Free on Epic Games Store

'Marvel's Midnight Suns' is a woefully overlooked, refreshingly unique spin on the superhero genre's traditional action fare. It is now free on the Epic Games Store.

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I love that Jake Solomon is following his life sim passions, but just give me a minute to mourn XCOM

The turn-based strategy genre is more alive than ever, but I've lost hope we'll ever get another great sequel to the series that shaped it.

PC Gamer

How the systems in Marvel's Midnight Suns and XCOM 2 influenced Jake Solomon's next-gen life sim

Interview | "There's no hit point bars, there's no damage, but there's still ways to make it meaningful"

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The devs of the underplayed Marvel's Midnight Suns once more blame the game's commercial woes on the cards (I really don't think it was the cards)

Cardly the problem, here.

PC Gamer

Marvel's Midnight Suns and XCOM dev is looking to reinvent the life sim genre with newly-formed Midsummer Studios: "the whole point is player-storytelling"

Interview | In conversation with founder and creative director Jake Solomon on Midsummer Studios and the quest to put their own spin on the life sim genre

GamesRadar

XCOM's greatest DLC was almost a Battletech-style mech expansion before the game's camera scuppered it all: 'Our camera angle is not meant for 30 foot mechs, apparently'

But what we got was one of my favourite expansions ever, so no harm done.

PC Gamer

Millennia review

A spirited but messy attempt to usurp Civ's throne.

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Midnight Suns devs 'absolutely' knew cards would be a controversial choice, but they were also 'absolutely the right fit for this game and our design goals'

Midnight Suns' game director explains how XCOM's combat evolved into the strategic card system that emphasized "feeling heroic."

PC Gamer

From Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag to Sea of Thieves, there a plenty of pirate games better than Skull and Bones

Time for some skulduggery.

PC Gamer

XCOM strategy game veteran of over 20 years wants to do a life sim: “there’s something about life in miniature that I think is just naturally appealing”

Jake Solomon loves what life sims are up to behind the scenes

GamesRadar

One of Xbox's most underrated games is down to an unbelievable price

One of Firaxis Games' best tactics experiences on Xbox is just $10 at Gamestop.

Windows Central

The 10 best superhero games that you should play today

From Batman: Arkham to Marvel's Spider-Man 2, here's our pick of the best superhero games that you should play right now

GamesRadar

Revisiting X-Com UFO Defense, the classic strategy game that helped to kickstart a genre

What did Firaxis leave behind when adapting alien-invasion strategy for the modern world?

GamesRadar

Xenonauts 2 is a comprehensive but overly safe tribute to classic X-COM

Expect brutal combat and mounting panic as you save the world from aliens again, but don't expect much that's new.

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At last, Midnight Suns got a New Game+ update that lets you keep your cards

Now you can choose which progress carries over, and which doesn't.

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Layoffs come to Firaxis after Marvel game’s commercial failure

Firaxis, makers of Civilization and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, laid off roughly 30 employees following the Marvel game’s sales flop in 2022

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Firaxis hit by layoffs after Midnight Suns disappointment and departure of iconic creative lead

Around 30 devs have lost their jobs at the company.

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Marvel's Midnight Suns deserved better than its terrible DLCs

The half-baked season pass has only diluted the excellent core experience.

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Creative director of Midnight Suns says it was originally even more talky: 'we cut 30 conversations'

"We cut a ton, because we realized this is just simply too much."

GamesRadar

The most underrated strategy game of 2022 is free to play this weekend

Marvel's Midnight Suns is free to play on PS5 and Xbox Series X until Sunday

Inverse

Review: 'Midnight Suns' breathes new life into Marvel games — with a catch

'Midnight Suns' is a thrilling new direction for Marvel’s heroes, though it’s bogged down a bit by overcomplicated base-building mechanics.

The Guardian - UK

Marvel’s Midnight Suns review – superheroes, strategy and Gen Z banter

Making good use of the comics, this turn-based strategy games gives players satisfyingly fiendish challenges – and room to chillax afterwards

USA Today Sports Media Group

Firaxis is giving Civilization 6’s Julius Caesar DLC away for free

Civilization 6’s free Julius Caesar DLC is available soon, bringing the land-hungry, money-loving Roman Emperor to certain platforms

Evening Standard

The best upcoming Nintendo Switch games, from Pikmin 4 to the next Zelda

These are the Switch games you can look forward to in the little console’s twilight years.

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Marvel’s Midnight Suns has been delayed

The ambitious strategy title featuring Marvel superheroes isn't coming out in 2022 anymore.

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