Mark Rubin, the lead designer of Ubisoft’s now-dead free-to-play shooter XDefiant, has left the games industry following his project’s death. A former Call of Duty lead, Rubin spent years developing ...

I took his advice and that was my first taste of strategy games, a genre with a challenging amount of depth but one that’s also rewarding and addictive.I spent hundreds of hours on “Civilization” and ...