Hasbro says the problem with re-releasing old Transformers games is Activision's lost a bunch of them

pcgamer.com:

Hasbro's flying high at the moment, and is looking to get serious about Transformers and videogames. There have been multiple Transformers games in the past, of course, but these were somewhat isolated licensed titles rather than a part of any grander strategy. Now Hasbro's got a big title on the way next year from Splash Damage, has begun to sell a Gamer Edition line of toys (where the bots look like their designs in certain videogames), and as part of the latter has noticed that these games are incredibly hard to play.

This has been the case since the expiry of Hasbro's licensing agreement with Activision in 2018, which saw various Transformers titles removed from Steam and other digital marketplaces. These include Transformers: Devastation, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, and Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, with the PlatinumGames-developed Devastation arguably the pick of the bunch: colorful and slick action with a great transforming gimmick.

During this year's San Diego ComicCon, a Hasbro spokesperson answered a Q&A from Transformer World 2005 about these older titles, and the mood music is generally good aside from one quite surprising revelation. Hasbro was asked whether the Gamer Edition toys means we'll see the re-release of these games:

«Sadly, apparently Activision’s not sure what hard drives they’re on in their building,» said the spokesperson. «When a company eats a company that eats a company things get lost, and that’s very frustrating. Hope is that now that the deal is moving forward with Microsoft and Xbox that they’ll go through all of the archives and every hard drive to find it all, because it’s an easy Game Pass add. We want those games back up for people to have a chance to play.»

Let's just