14 DAY TRIAL // 2K Marin, the development team working on The Bureau, says that its own XCOM experience is canon when it comes to the full storyline of the franchise, which means that future games linked to it will take its events into account.
Epic Caponi, the lead narrative designer, states in an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit that, “The Bureau is the origin story of the XCOM organization. So, the short answer is ‘as far as we know’.”
The fact that the game universe of XCOM includes aliens that can change the structure of time and space gives the team plenty of freedom to alter elements of the timeline if they need to.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified will be launched on August 20 in North America and three days later in Europe.
At the same time, 2K Games is working on a new XCOM project called Enemy Within, which might be revealed at Gamescom.