This has happened with other licensed Activision games in the past - look to the absence of such heroic nonsense as Deadpool, Spider-Man and Turtles games on Steam, similarly removed due to a lapsed contract. With the most recent movie having comparatively struggled at the box office, perhaps their bargaining posture is highly dubious.

Hasbro have confirmed to IGN that the point is the deal's dead and the games died with it, but stopped short of saying what, if any, future for Transformers games there is. In a mockery of justice, the licensing deal is now terminated - which is why all Activision Transformers games, also including 2014's uncharismatic bore Rise of the Dark Spark, disappeared from Steam, PSN et al a few weeks back. That said, High Moon's 2012 Fall For Cybertron, follow-up to the more forgettable War of Cybertron, was arguably made of sterner stuff overall.

For the past decade, the house of Kotick has been publishing Transformers games, most of which were associated with the beryllium baloney of the Michael Bay movies, but a handful of which did their own thing.īy far the most ambitious result of the arrangement was 2015's animation-styled combo-brawler Transformers: Devastation, developed by no less than Bayonetta and Nier: Automata studio Platinum (though handled by a different arm of the company). The issue is that robots in disguise toy-makers Hasbro and Activision couldn't deal with that right now.

Here's a hint: they've been removed from Steam, plus all other digital marketplaces - as have subsequent and worse sequels. If you felt you could have waited an eternity to get around to playing Fall of Cybertron, War For Cybertron or Devastation, that trypticon of broadly well-received, Activision-published Transformers third-person shooters, I've got bad news.

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