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.
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
Shin’en has finally shared the first screenshot from FAST Racing Neo. Check it out below:
1st screenshot from "FAST Racing Neo" – our upcoming Wii U futuristic racer. More to come next week. pic.twitter.com/jVDApxk22r
— Shin'en Multimedia (@ShinenGames) September 16, 2014
Despite being announced nearly a year ago, this is the first piece of media we’re seeing from the game. It looks quite nice!
Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai Remix, first announced for overseas and Asian territories in early July, has resurfaced through a report on Famitsu. An article published on the magazine’s website confirms that the game will be released in Japan next spring and will include new content such as an original opening theme song.
Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai Remix’s Japanese release came about due to interest expressed by fans. The title will be featured at the Tokyo Game Show this week.
More information about Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai Remix is included in this week’s issue of Famitsu.
To celebrate the release of The Wonderful 101’s soundtrack, the Platinum Games blog has been updated with an article from the composers of some of their major franchises. Here’s an excerpt for the piece and as always you can find the link to the full entry here:
Hitomi Kurokawa
Hello everyone, my name is Kurokawa. The soundtrack for The Wonderful 101, the first game I worked on, will be available starting today! I’m speechless! When you spend over a year working on something, you really get emotionally attached. I got really excited when I heard it was going to get a digital release!
The other day I went back and listened to all 127 tracks…wow, that sure is a lot of music. Intense too, especially the second half.
The theme phrase is used in over half the songs, so it is a lot of fun to see how it has been arranged in its various iterations. Before long you’ll be spotting that theme phrase like a champ. To both fans of the game and those of you who have not yet had a chance to play it, I hope you enjoy the music we made and, as you listen, find yourself immersed in the heroic world of The Wonderful 101!
