Hasbro Wants Xbox to Release Activision's Transformers Games on Game Pass - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 August 2023 / 5,630 Views
The team at Hasbro speaking in an interview with Transformers World was asked about the Transformers games released by Activision during the seventh generation of game and the team revealed Activision had lost the hard drives that the games are sitting on.
Hasbro is hoping that with Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard the games could be found and be added to Xbox Game Pass.
"Sadly, apparently Activision's not sure what hard drives they're on in their building," said the team. "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."
Transformers games on the Xbox 360 includes Transformers the Game, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers: War for Cybertron, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark. Some of them can be played on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S via backwards compatibility using a physical copy.
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Lost source code/games by developers/publishers seems to be a common occurrence... You would think they would take archival more seriously considering the millions that have been made during the last few console generations with remasters/remakes.
Would be cool for Microsoft to start adding more games to backwards compatibility as well...
I know back in the day, keeping up with your backups were not that big until something happen then they find out the backups were not getting backed up because no one was monitoring it. This happen not to long ago with a company I use to work for and it was a cloud platform with a lot of customer data. Well to say the least, some heads rolled, new management was assigned, pieces of the data was reclaimed but not all, lawsuits you name it happen but they learned a very expensive valuable lesson. Now that data centers are pretty much bullet proof at least they hope so.
War and Fall of Cybertron deserve to come back as well as having their multiplayer re-established.
Some of those 360/PS3 Transformers were very good and had great multiplayer.
War and Fall of Cybertron were great games, just maybe leave off the movie ties in, yeah?
Searching on the Xbox site, the only Transformers game that is backwards compatible is Transformers Battlegrounds and that's an Xbox One game.
The Xbox site doesn't list any of the 360 era Transformers games as backwards compatible.
