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Elon Musk’s Infatuation With ‘X’ Sheds Light On Twitter Rebranding

Musk's vision for X.com in 1999 resurfaces as he plans to rebrand Twitter as 'X'

Zenger

The last time Elon Musk tried to make his ‘X’ company happen it failed miserably

The billionaire tried rebranding PayPal to X.com over 20 years ago. He’s hoping it goes better this time around.

Fortune

Pushing Buttons: Games let us live to the limits of our mortality – and beyond

In this week’s newsletter: It’s an act of subversion to design a game that tries to get you to think about death, but titles that embrace it can be wonderfully freeing

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Indonesia blocks Musk’s X.com under curbs on porn, gambling

Ministry of Communication and Informatics says it is in contact with social media company about purpose of the domain.

Al Jazeera

X marks ... what? Elon Musk proves once again he’s incredibly bad at naming things

From a Tesla range misspelling ‘sexy’ to naming his own child after an airplane, branding just might not be his strong suit

The Guardian - US

Elon Musk's long obsession with the letter X: He just 'bid adieu' to the blue Twitter bird for it

He just "bid adieu" to the blue Twitter bird for it.

Fortune

Live: last-minute Samsung Unpacked rumors ahead of tomorrow's big reveal

Your quick fix of today's tech news – including last-minute Samsung Unpacked rumors and Spotify's price rise.

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Why is Twitter now called X? The big rebranding explained

Twitter’s mobile app now features a new logo and tagline as part of the company’s overhaul

Evening Standard

Elon Musk reveals new black and white X logo to replace Twitter's blue bird

Elon Musk has unveiled a new black and white “X” logo to replace Twitter’s famous blue bird as he follows through with a major rebranding of the the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year

The Independent UK

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.

PC Gamer

Elon Musk Launches XAI To Uncover The Universe’s True Nature

Musk's new venture aims to understand the universe with a team of experts from DeepMind, OpenAI, and more.

Zenger

Jagged Alliance 3 review

After 24 years, Jagged Alliance is back to take a shot at the squad tactics crown.

PC Gamer

Twitter owner Elon Musk has taken first steps in creating an ‘everything app’ to rival WeChat. It’s going to be an uphill battle

Despite receiving key regulatory licenses, Musk faces greater challenges in building out his dream app.

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Every Warhammer 40,000 game, ranked

We played them all to determine which games about space marines, space orks, tech-priests and tyranids are worth your time.

PC Gamer

Aliens: Dark Descent review

A bug hunt that takes a more tactical approach to xenomorph blasting.

PC Gamer

Xenonauts 2 will invade our world this July

The extra hardcore, retro-styled XCOM-like is suddenly less than a month away.

GamesRadar

Aliens: Dark Descent review: "A fresh and fun take on the series"

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XCOM-alike Miasma Chronicles already looks like a cult classic

Gritty turn-based strategy game Miasma Chronicles gets a brand new trailer, showing off more than a few accolades.

PC Gamer

Nightdive's kicking around the idea of an 'XCOM-like' System Shock that casts you as the Citadel's doomed resistance fighters against Shodan

At least getting your entire squad killed would be in-keeping with canon.

TechRadar

System Shock director wants to make an "XCOM-like" strategy in the same world

Nightdive Studios head Stephen Kick wants to make a System Shock strategy game.

Inverse

You Need to Play the Best Dynasty Sim Ever Made on Xbox Game Pass ASAP

This clever, creative tactical wonderland hits all the right notes.

PC Gamer

Wage psychological warfare behind enemy lines in this XCOM-like World War 2 turn-based strategy game

Classified: France '44 tells the story of Allied special forces working with the French Resistance to fight back against Nazi occupation.

GamesRadar

How Miasma Chronicles' tactical-action was inspired by XCOM, Xenogears, and Final Fantasy

The Bearded Ladies discuss its ambition to build an experience that's "bigger and better than Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden"

USA Today Sports Media Group

The Lamplighters League preview: XCOM and Indiana Jones together at last

The Lamplighters League mixes a thrilling adventure of Indiana Jones proportions with the tense turn-based combat of XCOM.

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