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== XCOM Reboot ==

* [[Alternate Reality Game]]: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120125225011/http://www.projectenemyunknown.com/ Project: Enemy Unknown]'', also known as "InfiniVac", was started up in 2010 to help draw interest towards the XCOM reboot prior to its official announcement. It was placed on hiatus when 2K began retooling the game, thus delaying its release. Recently, as an attempt to draw much-needed attention to XCOM through a different approach (i.e., average citizens keeping tabs on strange phenomena instead of [[The Government]] doing so via the now-defunct InfiniVac Network), 2K started a new ARG called ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120701052450/http://www.citizenskywatch.com/ Citizen Skywatch]''. While news sites and online commentators alike were mostly speculating that the ARG was connected to either GTA 5, Bioshock, or an upcoming game called Agent, despite the heavy implication of UFO-related happenings from the title alone, an explicit link to XCOM was made by the appearance of [http://forums.2kgames.com/forumdisplay.php?100-Citizen-Skywatch a Citizen Skywatch section] in the XCOM-specific part of 2K's official forums.

* [[Alternate Reality Game]]: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120125225011/http://www.projectenemyunknown.com/ Project: Enemy Unknown]'', also known as "InfiniVac", was started up in 2010 to help draw interest towards the XCOM reboot prior to its official announcement. It was placed on hiatus when 2K began retooling the game, thus delaying its release. Recently, as an attempt to draw much-needed attention to XCOM through a different approach (i.e., average citizens keeping tabs on strange phenomena instead of [[The Government]] doing so via the now-defunct InfiniVac Network), 2K started a new ARG called ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120701052450/http://www.citizenskywatch.com/ Citizen Skywatch]''. While news sites and online commentators alike were mostly speculating that the ARG was connected to either GTA 5, Bioshock, or an upcoming game called Agent, despite the heavy implication of UFO-related happenings from the title alone, an explicit link to XCOM was made by the appearance of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130326155747/http://forums.2kgames.com/forumdisplay.php?100-Citizen-Skywatch a Citizen Skywatch section] in the XCOM-specific part of 2K's official forums.

* [[Blob Monster]]: The black goo.

* [[Code Emergency]]: The InfiniVac Network from ''Project: Enemy Unknown'' was on "Code Black Lockdown" for quite some time. {{spoiler|1=This may have been related to a possible alien attack on a Russian defector and an XCOM agent who was escorting him; according to the information that was available on the InfiniVac Network, their remains bore evidence that they might have been killed by the black blobs seen in the 2010 E3 trailer.}}