This is from the Altar newsletter today: Aliens screaming for next patch! -------------------------------- Please visit our website next week, when the patch 1.3 with alien sounds, support for modding tools and more issues will be available for download! The official modding tools will be released soon after the patch.
Of course back in the x-com days there was not the gaming audience that there is now. With the advent of cheap high power systems, graphics and kids being able to afford owning a puter now as well as their parents there is a vast new gaming pool. I think if a x-com came out in this day and age the sales would be astronomical.