In a recent interview with Transformers World as a special Q&A session that was seperate to SDCC 2023, the Hasbro Team opened up about some of the old Transformers games, hoping Microsoft and Activision would revive the old titles.
Back in the Xbox 360 days, Activision produced and released some of the old Transformers games that have since been delisted and taken off the digital storefront for various reasons such as licensing issues, which is a big reason as too why a game would get delisted on any digital storefront. These games include Transformers: Devastation, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, and Transformers: War for Cybertron. However, these games are still playable through backward compatibility if you have a physical copy of the game.
With the Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard, Hasbro is hopeful that there could be a possibility that Microsoft and Activision could bring these older Transformers titles back and put them on the Xbox storefront.
In the Q&A interview, The Hasbro team was asked about the possible re-release of older titles, to which Hasbro replies with, “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, they’ll go through all of the archives and every hard drive to find it all because it’s an easy Game Pass add.” Hasbro goes on to add
We want those games back up for people to have a chance to play.
Currently, as Hasbro stated above, the older Transformers titles are somewhere, sitting on one of the hundreds of hard drives that Activision currently has, and might have to go through to dig up old titles to possibly re-release on GamePass. It’s frustrating knowing the games are somewhere, and worst case scenario, they end up lost. This happens with a lot of games and iconic titles that end up lost or forgotten.
The newest Transformers game, Transformers: Reactivate was revealed last year as a co-op game by Splash Damage, with a closed beta sometime in 2023.