Detroit's Marwil Bookstore or purchasing them on the internet from online competitors, such as Amazon and eBay. After Marwil had been in business at WSU for some 59 years, Brian Kramer had seen textbook prices nearly triple over a period of two decades. According to a 2005 survey conducted by the National Association of College Students, about 25 percent of students had begun purchasing textbooks online. Another drastic change was when Wayne State opened a $6 million, 28,000-square-foot Barnes & Noble college bookstore right across the street in 2002. Marwil didn't have the fancy store front, cafe or music and apparel that was
X-COM recruitment and resources), and resistance movement concept where you had to fight back after the world was taken and humanity was totally under the alien yoke." In 2010, 2K Marin announced they were working on re-imagining of "X-COM", relabeled as "XCOM". It was described as a tactical and strategic first-person shooter that would combine elements from the original "X-COM" alongside a new setting and viewpoint while keeping some main concepts from the original game series. The setting received a complete overhaul, now based in the early 1960s, with the original XCOM organization being a U.S. secret federal agency. Originally planned