Transformers News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

While adapting popular IPs into games is nothing new, it's rare for a publisher to focus solely on games for younger audiences. Outright Games specializes in family-friendly experiences, adapting popular children's shows into playable titles. The company has recently helped produce games centered around franchises like,,,, and many more.

Game Rant can exclusively reveal several new Transformers One figures from Hasbro. The newly announced figures will be released as part of three Hasbro multipacks in summer 2024.

A fan of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom recreated the Transformers intro in-game. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is popular for its emphasis on freedom in play style. Gamers being able to play the game how they want to extends to fighting enemies, completing quests, and even just how they spend time in the world of Tears of the Kingdom overall.

Outright Games has released a new for the upcoming action-adventure game based on the popular franchise. The title is set to release on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC on Friday, October 13.

Acclaimed writer/artist Daniel Warren Johnson is about to bring the Transformers into a new comic book era when he launches their new ongoing title later this year. 

Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici's Void Rivals sprung a helluva surprise on the comics community a couple of months back when it was revealed to be a secret tie-in book to Transformers and G.I. Joe. 

Nearly three years into this current console generation, the transition to improved fidelity and performance targets in games hasn’t been as widespread and concrete as many had hoped. Thankfully, one of the benefits of developing a game that’s far from technically demanding – especially on current-gen hardware – is being able to push those numbers to their limit, and it seems that’s what Tessera Studios’ and Outright Games’ upcoming Transformers: Earthspark – Expedition will be doing.

After a recent report indicating that Hasbro couldn’t bring cult-classic Transformers games to Xbox Game Pass because it had lost the source code for the games, Activision’s chief communications officer Lulu Cheng Meservey has taken to Twitter to state that the publisher still has the source code.

Hasbro has apologized for claiming that Activision has lost their copies of their Transformers video games.

Toy giant Hasbro has said that Activision still has the code for the Transformers games they collaborated on.

Hasbro has apologised for claiming that Activision had lost its Transformers games and that this is the reason they aren’t on Xbox Game Pass.

After one Hasbro rep suggested that Activision Blizzard had lost the hard drives that held the code for the well-loved Transformers games it published, Hasbro's PR is now saying that statement was made in error.

Hasbro wants to put its older Transformers video games on Xbox Game Pass but says it can't because Activision doesn't know where it's stored them.

Toy giant Hasbro has said that it cannot release the Transformers games it partnered with Activision for as the company cannot find the hard drive they are on.

Speaking with the publication Transformer World, a Hasbro representative has revealed that Activision Blizzard currently doesn’t know the whereabouts of the source code for the various Transformers games that they were in charge of publishing.

Hasbro thinks it's time for Activision Blizzard's Transformers games to come to Xbox Game Pass. At a recent Q&A with Transformer World 2005 at San Diego Comic-Con earlier in July, a spokesperson for the toy company was asked about older games in the series being re-released for newer consoles. 

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.

Transformers owners Hasbro have said they would like to see older video games based on the beloved toy franchise to make a return - except those games are lost somewhere on a hard drive inside Activision.

Hasbro was on hand to talk about toys on the latest San Diego Comic Con. However, they opened up quite a bit when they were asked about making more video games.

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.

Hasbro has said that it would like to see Microsoft revive Activision‘s old Transformers games via Game Pass.

Hasbro says it would love for the Activision-published Transformers games to come to a service like PC Game Pass, when asked about the possibility of the delisted games ever coming back to storefronts. With PlatinumGames’ Transformers Devastation among the lost robot games, I’d love to see them back too.

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While the box-office haul of this summer’s Transformers: Rise of the Beastsdoesn’t compare to the highest highs of the Michael Bay era, it’s still a big enough hit that fans of the robots in disguise should expect another sequel in the future (and one with a toy line crossover twist). In fact, Transformers 8 isn’t even the only TF movie Paramount Pictures has in the works: Announced in April, the studio will release the animated Transformers One in theaters in 2024. Longtime Transformers movie series producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura tells Polygon says the movie is big — maybe the biggest Transformers story his team has brought to screen yet.

Robosen Robotics, the robot maker that released an auto-transforming version of Autobots leader Optimus Prime in 2021, is giving the same treatment to Grimlock, the leader of the Dinobots who prefers to refer to himself in the third-person at all times. Like Optimus, Grimlock is an “auto-converting robot” that responds to voice and app commands, and can walk in both robot and dinosaur form.