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Image & Form has finally unveiled the next entry in the SteamWorld series. Today, the company announced “SteamWorld Heist”.

Here’s an official “elevator pitch” from Image & Form:

SteamWorld Heist is a game about space adventures and survival. Recruit a team of ragtag robots to explore and scavenge the remains of a destroyed world. Board enemy ships and command your crew in a unique variety of turn-based combat.

Taking place some time after SteamWorld Dig, a cataclysmic event has shattered the planet and forced its population into steam-driven spaceships. It’s a robot-eat-robot world out there, and water is desperately hard to come by. Heisting other ships and bases – bad guys fortunately, the lot of them – is their only way to remain in operation.

“Heist isn’t a sequel to SteamWorld Dig,” Image & Form CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson said of SteamWorld’s Heist announcement. “It’s set in the same world and the cowbots are still the heroes. But a lot has happened to SteamWorld since then, and we want to make a game that is radically different. Partly because we really wanted to make a turn-based strategy game, but also because it felt like a clever move. The obvious follow-up would’ve been Dig 2; we wanted to surprise instead.”

SteamWorld Heist will be available in spring 2015. Check out a teaser trailer above.

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This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:

Bayonetta 2 (Wii U) – 10/9/10/9
Danganronpa: Another Episode (PSV) – 10/8/9/8
Kiniro no Corda 3: Another Sky (PSP) – 9/9/9/8
Bakumatsu Rock Ultra Soul (PSV/PSP) – 8/8/8/8
The Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki II (PS3/Vita) – 8/8/8/7
Toki Tori 2+ (Wii U) – 8/8/7/7
Custom Monsters (3DS) – 8/7/7/8
Haikyu!! Tsunage! Itadaki no Keshiki!! (3DS) – 7/7/8/7
Kamisama to Unmei Kakusei no Cross Thesis (PS3) – 8/7/6/7
Killer Instinct (XBO) – 8/7/6/7
Monobeno: Pure Smile (PSV) – 6/8/7/6
Satomi Hakkenden Hamaji Hime no Ki (PSP) – 7/7/7/6
Gardenscapes (3DS) – 6/7/7/6

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Shin’en has finally shared the first screenshot from FAST Racing Neo. Check it out below:

Despite being announced nearly a year ago, this is the first piece of media we’re seeing from the game. It looks quite nice!

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The launch of Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse draws closer. Over on Twitter, developer WayForward stated that a mid-October release is probable for North America.

The studio said:

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