However, we now can’t be sure whether these ads referred to XCOM 3 or the newly-released XCOM-spinoff Chimera Squad. Later in the year, a job ad appeared on the official Firaxis homepage, looking for a worldbuilder to “take the XCOM franchise to the next level”. In early 2019, Jake Solomon, creative director at Firaxis and directly responsible for XCOM and XCOM 2, tweeted that Firaxis was hiring. Back both in early and late 2019, the search for new people at Firaxis to help with a new XCOM title seemed to be underway. Still, for all we know, XCOM 3 is already in the works.
With the current landscape being the way it is and lots of people working from home, it’s likely difficult to work on any large-scale title right now.