“Released in 1993, the original X-COM is widely regarded as one of the best games ever made and has now been re-imagined by the strategy experts at Firaxis Games. XCOM: Enemy Unknown remains available on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on disc, as a download for PlayStation Vita that includes the Enemy Within content, and on Steam as a standalone product with the original DLC and Enemy Within expansion available individually. Enemy Within contains the story and DLC content of Enemy Unknown so it seems 2K would rather encourage users to buy the newer $30 expansion than keep the older content available at a lower price. Though Enemy Within was also released on consoles in 2013 this seems to be the same reasoning behind its 2016 delisting.

The game’s removal from consoles comes nearly two years after it was delisted on iOS and Android in advance of the standalone expansion XCOM: Enemy Within. Tweets and forum posts began questioning the game’s availability as early as July 9th, 2016. On May 24th, 2016 Xbox hype man, Major Nelson, announced that the game would be “free” in the latter half of June to North American Xbox Live Gold subscribers it was previously available to PlayStation Plus subscribers. XCOM: Enemy Unknown and its downloadable content were delisted in early July 2016 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

As of this writing it has yet to return on PlayStation 3. XCOM: Enemy Unknown has been relisted on Xbox 360 and most likely returned in May of 2018. XCOM: Enemey Unknown homepage PlayStation Store Page Page

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