2K and Firaxis Games today announced that Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth, the new science fiction-themed entry in the award-winning Civilization franchise, will be released globally on Friday, October 24, 2014 for Windows PC. Fans who pre-order Civilization: Beyond Earth from participating retailers will receive the Exoplanets Map Pack, which includes six custom maps inspired by real exoplanets, at launch.

Firaxis' Ed Beach and Dennis Shirk talk major overhauls in "Test of Time" update.

Today Take-Two Interactive Software announced new sales figures for Red Dead Redemption 2 and Grand Theft Auto V during its quarterly financial conference call. They also teased the future of Firaxis.
I wonder why EA never made a GTA clone considering they bought so many game developers and have so many licenses
Rather have GTA 6 instead of milking the same game since 2013

Nobody expected a new XCOM game getting announced for this year, and released so quick. And with quite radical changes, developer Firaxis has to temper expectations by stating it’s a spin-off, and it’s sold for cheap.
Like an FBI raid squad, XCOM Chimera Squad kicked opened the doors hard, and hits you strong and fast.