{"id":46865,"date":"2012-11-03T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46865"},"modified":"2012-11-05T10:42:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T08:42:02","slug":"x-com-creator-announces-sequel-to-1985s-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/46865-x-com-creator-announces-sequel-to-1985s-chaos","title":{"rendered":"X-COM creator announces sequel to 1985&#8217;s Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X-COM co-creator Julian Gollop has just announced that he\u2019s working on a new game \u2013 a sequel to his 1985 ZX Spectrum game Chaos: The Battle of Wizards, a turn-based tactics game which had somewhat of a cult following in its day.<\/p>\n<p>The new came via Twitter, where Gollop revealed the game will be a sequel\/remake for iOS, Mac and PC.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be 3D and make use of the Unity engine. As for gameplay, Gollop promises to \u201ckeep combat\/movement very close to the original, with some tweaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julian and his brother Nick created X-COM twenty years ago, a game which has very recently spawned an immensely popular remake. Chaos does away with aliens and spaceships in favour of battling wizards in a turn-based strategy environment. It also spawned a less popular sequel in 1990, called Lord of Chaos.<\/p>\n<p>The original is looking a bit long in the tooth at 27 years of age, but here\u2019s a video of someone playing it on the Spectrum.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gGvyCI_4CQE?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"PC Gamer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/2012\/11\/02\/x-coms-julian-gollop-making-chaos-the-battle-of-wizards-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\">PC Gamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"XCOM: Enemy Unknown invades Earth later this year\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38206-xcom-enemy-unknown-invades-earth-later-this-year.html\">XCOM: Enemy Unknown invades Earth later this year<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"XCOM Iron Man mode\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/32068-xcoms-single-save-iron-man-mode-announced.html\" target=\"_blank\">XCOM\u2019s single-save \u201cIron Man\u201d mode announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"XCOM: Enemy Unknown details and screenshots revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/30414-xcom-enemy-unknown-details-and-screenshots-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\">XCOM: Enemy Unknown details and screenshots revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"XCOM reboot release push back\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/30774-xcom-reboot-release-pushed-back.html\" target=\"_blank\">XCOM reboot release pushed back<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"XCOM Enemy Unkown revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/30220-xcom-enemy-unknown-revealed.html\" target=\"_blank\">XCOM: Enemy Unknown revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"2K Games: Strategy games are just not contemporary&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/12896-2k-strategy-games-are-just-not-contemporary.html\" target=\"_blank\">2K: \u201cstrategy games are just not contemporary\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZX Spectrum strategy game to be remade in 3D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":46866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226,3],"tags":[31,7564,7559,7562,7563,7560,7561],"class_list":["post-46865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","category-pc","tag-active","tag-brothers-gollop","tag-chaos-the-battle-of-wizards","tag-jullian-gollop","tag-nick-gollop","tag-spectrum-zx","tag-x-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46888,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46865\/revisions\/46888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}