It looks like Microsoft have some sort of Transformers game coming out

thesixthaxis.com:

A while ago Activision removed all the Transformers games from store fronts, presumably because they had lost the licensing. These included the two excellent Cybertron games, Devastation, and the rather inferior movie tie in titles.

It seems that their parent company has had a change of heart, or maybe they just want to cash in on the upcoming Transformers One movie, but either way Transformers games appear to returning.  At first there was just a leak that Microsoft were working on something Transformers and now the Australian Classification Board has listed the games. Both games  are simply listed as Transformers but as both the games are also listed with “Online Interactivity” that does suggest multiplayer, and that has fans  War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron very excited.

We also know that all the Transformers games have been relisted on the Xbox and Steam stores. but you can’t buy them yet.  The PlayStation store only has Battlegrounds, the recently announced Galactic Trials, and the VR game.

Before everyone get’s too excited, if we return to the Australian Classification Board which is listing for two games both called Transformers, the one key difference is one is listed as “Original” and the second as “Modified”, and that sounds rather like the same game being listed for last gen, and then a shiner updated version for current gen.  None of the Transformers games had a PS5 or XBox Series X|S version, Fall of Cybertron was re-released on PS4 but without any graphical update.

So what does it all mean? Well there’s something Cybertronian on the way, maybe one of the games is coming to Game Pass, but what is most telling is the publisher here is Microsoft not Activision.  Obviously Microsoft own Activision but it would still be a lot of legal faff for Activision to “give” Microsoft the code for the Transformers games, they cant just hand it over, so I’m hedging my bets. This may be a re-release, but it could also be some sort of promotional bit of fluff to tie