In an interview with GameSpot, when asked about the X-Com Sequel Rumor floating around 2K Boston, Ken Levine tells this off-topic story:

“I personally own four copies of X-Com. I just bought the whole series again on Steam. I even spent a few hours last month playing (God forgive me) X- Com: Enforcer! Now that’s love. On a completely unprofessional side note, I’m going to name-drop and say I met Sid Meier at E3–one of the perks of working for Take-Two. He had this kind of Zen-master serenity thing going on about him, but I think I creeped him out with my nerdy, 1,000-yard fanboy stare. Back to X-Com. I will say that I’m probably the world’s biggest X-Com [fan]. I won’t say I’m working on an X-Com game.”

The bad news is, he won’t say that he’s working on an X-Com game.
The good news is that he didn’t say that he wasn’t working on an X-Com game.

Considering he is such a big fan, and considering X-Com is such a great, great game, I like to imagine that he’s working on making X-Com a game he gets to work on.

Here’s to hoping.

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