Footage for Splash Damage's Cancelled Transformers: Reactivate Has Appeared Online - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 January 2025 / 1,605 Views
Splash Damage this week announced it had cancelled Transformers: Reactivate and a number of employees are at risk of being laid off.
Gameplay footage for the Transformers game, which uses Unreal Engine 5, has now appeared online.
Transformers Reactivate Gameplay Unreal Engine 5#TransformersReactivate #PlayTFR #Transformers pic.twitter.com/rF707RAhij
— Transformers: Reactivate | DpzLuna (@DpzLuna) January 8, 2025
Splash Damage earlier this week stated, "Today, we have some very difficult news to share, the decision has been made to end development of Transformers: Reactivate.
"This means we will be scaling down to refocus our efforts on other projects. Unfortunately, despite every effort, a number of roles across the studio are now potentially at risk of redundancy."
Splash Damage was founded in 2001 and acquired by Tencent in 2020.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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It's a real shame that a game that's that far along is not going to come to market. I don't know anything about development of this game. But, with the Transformers name attached, I assume it was at least a AA level budget. So we're talking tens of millions of dollars of development money flush down the toilet here.
With that said, I guess someone must have realized that the game sucks. Hard for me to see another reason that development would stop, unless they ran out of money. And I would think they could get the money from somebody if the game was good.
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