Hasbro Wants To Revive The Transformers Games – But Activision Misplaced Them

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Hasbro has expressed an interest in bringing back the Activision Transformers games. However, there’s a snag, and it’s not really one you would expect.

In Hasbro’s SDCC 2023 panel, they were asked about this, and this is the answer that Hasbro provided:

 “Sadly, apparently Activision’s not sure what hard drives they’re on in their building. 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.”

Now, the reason this came up at all was because one of the product lines that Hasbro is talking about in the panel is called Transformers Studio Series Game Edition.

So, this line is about making Transformers toys based on their appearance on the various video games. Thus far, they have been making toys based on their appearance on Transformers: War for Cybertron.

Released in 2010, Transformers: War for Cybertron was co-produced by Hasbro, Activision, and game studio High Moon Studios. This game explored the origins of the Transformers themselves, in particular the civil war the Autobots and Decepticons waged in their home planet.

It is generally accepted that the Transformers: War for Cybertron games, alongside PlatinumGames Transformers: Devastation, are the best video games in the franchise. Eight years after, Hasbro produced a new project with animation studio Rooster Teeth and Netflix called Transformers: War For Cybertron Trilogy. The general premise of the Netflix series and video game series is similar, but they do have completely