PAX East: XCOM: Enemy Unknown Heading to iOS Platforms

<p>At PAX East today&comma; 2K Games announced that <em>XCOM&colon; Enemy Unknown<&sol;em>&comma; from developer Firaxis Games&comma; will be making its way to iPhone and iPad this Summer&period; The title is said to be a port of the PC&sol;console game&comma; as opposed to an iOS remake&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It is a straight port&period; We have not made any gameplay exceptions&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said<em> <&sol;em>Lead Designer Jake Solomon to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2013&sol;03&sol;23&sol;xcom-enemy-unknown-iOS&sol;">Joystiq<&sol;a>&period; &&num;8220&semi;You play the exact same game&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s just now fully playable on an iPhone or an iPad&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2013&sol;03&sol;23&sol;full-blown-xcom-coming-to-ipad-and-iphone&quest;abthid&equals;514e2ae87b51f4253b00000a">IGN has noted<&sol;a> that&comma; when they briefly saw the game running on the iPad&comma; character shadows and muzzle effects were nowhere to be seen&comma; but the game still ran just fine&period; Publisher 2K later went on to discuss the difficulties in porting the game to iOS&comma; namely the filesize restrictions&comma; since the PC version of the game requires a decent amount of hard drive space&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>XCOM&colon; Enemy Unknown<&sol;em> has yet to be given a price or a specific date during the Summer season&comma; but you may be happy to know that it will&comma; at least&comma; come with the <em>Elite Soldier DLC<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrace;Sources&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2013&sol;03&sol;23&sol;full-blown-xcom-coming-to-ipad-and-iphone&quest;abthid&equals;514e2ae87b51f4253b00000a">IGN<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2013&sol;03&sol;23&sol;xcom-enemy-unknown-iOS&sol;">Joystiq<&sol;a>&rcub;<&sol;p>&NewLine;