SOMA is a sci-fi horror game that will tackle unsettling questions about consciousness.

Earlier this year Paradox Interactive announced that Jon Shafer, designer of such strategy titles as Sid Meier’s Civilization V,  joined Paradox Development Studio to work on new projects but creative differences seem to have ended this collaboration prematurely.

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

• Megaton Rainfall [PC]
• MXGP3: The Official Motocross Videogame [Switch]
• Rive [Switch] Ultimate Edition
• School Girl/Zombie Hunter [PS4]
• Star Wars Battlefront II [PC/PS4/XOne]
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim [PS VR/Switch]
• Titan Quest [PC] Ragnarök Expansion

Party Planet is a compilation of 30 party games, 18 of which can be played with up to 4 players for some friendly cooperative or competitive play.

Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction and maintenance of space works. Players build space ships and space stations of various sizes and utilization (civil and military), pilot ships and perform asteroid mining.

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood mixes traditional Scandinavian storytelling with an inventive and colorful 2.5D platformer, combining classic jump and run gameplay with smart and innovative puzzles.

Door Kickers: Action Squad is an old school side scroller/action game that puts you in the role of a SWAT trooper and sends you to deal with bad guys in various locales of Nowhere City USA.

Biomutant is a post-apocalyptic open-world action RPG that delivers real-time melee, shooter and mutant ability action.

Distortions is a 3D game in third person, set in a surreal atmosphere, that promises to catch the player's attention. Together with the main character, you will be challenged on a search for answers in an adventure through an unknown place.

Payday 2 is the next installment in the bank robbery shooter adding new features such as a skill and progression system, as well as four classes/professions, each giving you unique abilities.

Part comedy part chaos, Apocalypse Cow will take your favorite games and movies and explode them into a pool of blood and parody.

Star Control: Origins is a sci-fi action/adventure game that takes place in a living galaxy filled with thousands of unique worlds, many of which are teeming with alien life. It also has over a dozen star-faring civilizations the player must trade, fight and negotiate with.

Path of Exile is a free-to-play online action role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world, where you play as one of six character classes, banished for their past misdeeds to the dark fantasy world of Wraeclast.

Golem Gates blends elements of real-time strategy, multiplayer online battle arena, and card battle.

Train Simulator 2018 fully immerses you in a world of trains, transporting you to a place where you decide what to do, where and when.

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

• Crusader Kings II: Jade Dragon [PC]
• Europa Universalis IV: Cradle of Civilization [PC]
• Lumo [Switch]
• RHEM I SE: The Mysterious Land [PC]
• Shadow Fight 3 [Android/iOS]
• Sparc [PC]
• Tower 57 [PC]
• Transit King [Android/iOS]
  
• Train Simulator 2018 [PC]

Today Ubisoft revealed further information regarding its new development studio in Berlin;  the team will be focusing on collaborating on big Ubisoft brands, starting with the Far Cry series.

Master X Master is a free-to-play action MOBA with a Tag System that allows you to quickly swap between two characters mid-combat.

According to video game sales tracking agency NPD Group, the Nintendo Switch system was the No. 1 video game hardware in October, followed by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Super NES Classic Edition system in the No. 2 spot.

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:

• Batman: The Enemy Within [PS4/XOne/PC] Ep. 3: Fractured Mask Trailer

Dynasty Warriors 9 unifies the classic, time-tested “one versus thousands” action iconic to the series with a variety of new features, characters and content in an expansive open world environment.

Set a few years from now, Ghost Recon Wildlands lets you lead a four-player team of Ghosts on a covert mission to eliminate the Santa Blanca drug cartel.

Surrender your senses to the ultimate neon-noir, action-packed, four-player, top-down arcade racing game.

Human: Fall Flat is a quirky, open-ended physics-based third person puzzle and exploration game set in surreal, floating dreamscapes.

Sky Force Reloaded is a modern, air-based shooter with meaty explosions, incinerating lasers, colossal bosses, a slew of aircrafts to pilot, online tournaments, and co-op mode.