UPDATE: Hasbro reached out clarifying comments made that suggest Transformers games have been lost were made in error. They apologized to Activision and regret any confusion regarding their previous comments.
Here is the statement that was provided to Rectify Gaming:
“To clarify, comments that suggest TRANSFORMERS games have been lost were made in error. We apologize to Activision and regret any confusion; they’ve been great partners, and we look forward to future opportunities to work together.”
ORIGINAL: Hasbro wants to bring lost Transformers games to Xbox Game Pass following the Activision Blizzard acquisition. Speaking at San Diego Comic Con 2023, Hasbro said Activision is not sure what hard drives they’re on. They fear that when a company takes over another that things get lost and they hope Microsoft find the Transformers games since it’s “an easy add” to Xbox Game Pass.
“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.
The company has some assets because they’ve been working on Gamer Edition, a line of toys based on its Transformers video games. They had a hard time recreating characters from the games.
“Hasbro has some of the game assets, including everything from Fall of Cybertron, but it’s hit-and-miss. “For [War for Cybertron], we had to rip it ourselves, because they could not find it: they kept sending concept art instead, which we didn’t want, we need the CAD. So we booted up an old computer and ripped them all out from there. Which was a learning experience and a long weekend, because we just wanted to get it right, so that’s why we did it like that.”
The following Transformers games are not listed on the Xbox store for Xbox 360 & Xbox One (Thanks TrueAchievements):
Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Transformers: Devastation, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, Transformers: The Game, and Transformers: War for Cybertron.
Bringing some of these games back might be tough due to licensing issues related to the movie tie-ins. We’ll have to wait and found out if Microsoft will close on the Activision Blizzard deal soon. There are a lot of possibilities with this acquisition since Tony Hawk is part of Activision as well.
Source: TrueAchievements & PC Games Insider
