Transformers Video Games

Transformers: Rise, the upcoming Console MMO Game, seems to be in trouble following managerial positions at LeYou, including its CEO Alexa Xu, leaving the company.

Popular game journalist Josh Ye who investigated the matter had the following to say in addition to his article at South China Morning Post.

“The final years of Leyou hunting for a buyout deal and the ensuing chaos have left a bad taste in the mouth of many who joined Leyou to create games based on famous intellectual properties such as Lord of the Rings and Transformers.“It has dashed the hopes of many who joined the company to create games,” one person said, “It went from having one of the best hands in the gaming business to nothing but another satellite studio for Tencent. It was a place that a PC and console gamer dreamt of working.”

In 2019, Leyou announced that it was helping Amazon to develop a game based on the Lord of the Rings franchise. In the same year, it said that it was developing Transformers Online for US toy giant Hasbro and Civilization Online with 2K Games for the PC and console platform. Multiple persons said that the overhaul at the company has now led to multiple cancelled projects which would incur heavy penalties for Leyou over breached deals with partners.

Ex-Leyou employees said that the company’s ambition to assert itself in the gaming business was thwarted by mismanagement and internal infighting. “People who did not care about games wound up being in charge. It was more interested in dressing itself up for a sale, and they did so by buying famous IPs with which they never intended to go through,” a person said.”

You can read the full statement, after the jump.

News Post image: LeYou CEO Alexa Xu prior to leaving the company.

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The official Facebook Fan Page of popular video game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang have announced a special Mobile Legends: Bang Bang x Transformers collaboration. 

This game, developed and published by Moonton, is a mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) and our beloved Transformers characters are coming in hot into the game.

Transformers: Roll Out in Mobile Legends!
MLBB x Transformers cinematic trailer will be released on August 14!
Why Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are racing with Johnson? Why a chaotic battle breaks out? Who are their opponents?
Share with us your thoughts below and check the answer on August 14!

Stay tuned with TFW2005 for more updates! Click on the bar to see the mirrored promotional image featuring Optimus Prime and then let us know your impressions on the 2005 Board!

It’s been a while since we heard from this game. For those who do not know, Certain Affinity, a co-developer for Halo: Infinite and many other titles, is developing a brand new third-person shooter game based on our beloved Transformers property. The game in question was in development-hell at least since mid-2017. While we are supposed to play, see or hear about beta testing somewhere around the end of this year, we’ve actually heard very little from it.

That is until now…

Aaron Hamilton Cook, a Senior Producer at Certain Affinity dropped by a gaming-related podcast fortnight ago and dropped the possible title of this new game.

Titled Transformers: Rise, the team seems to be discarding the working titles for this game; which was originally called Transformers: Impact and later called Transformers Online.

Linkedin profiles of developers at Certain Affinity, also hint at this new title.

It almost doesn’t seem like a coincidence that we are getting a new live-action movie called Transformers Rise Of The Beasts and at the same time a game called Transformers: Rise.

We await further development (pun intended) from Certain Affinity.

Popular mobile game Top War: Battle Game have announced an upcoming collaboration with Transformers.

Top War, developed by Chinese based company Rivergame, is an Free to Play Mobile Online Real Time Strategy game where you build out your base, take on enemies, and make friends with your virtual neighbors. A Transformers character lineup is coming to the game. It includes Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Blaster versus Megatron, Starscream, and Soundwave.

The game is available for download in both Android and IOS for free. See all the official images as well as a promotional video after the jump, and then share your impressions on the 2005 Board!

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Attention collectors and gamers! The recently announced new AR Mobile game Transformers Heavy Metal, developed by Niantic (Pokemon Go) and Hasbro, has just been released for download in New Zealand.

According to the Transformers Heavy Metal Twitter account, the beta is available in both IOS and Android for lucky New Zealand residents at the moment (geo locked). Stay tuned with TFW2005 for more updates on this new mobile game.

Update: Courtesy of 2005 Board member ssjkazer we have some screencaps and a short video of the gameplay. Keep in mind that this is still a beta, not the finished game.

Read more about this game in our previous official announcement news post, and then click on the discussion link below to share your impressions on the 2005 Board!

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Niantic and Hasbro are teaming up for n AR Mobile game with a Transformers theme.  Think Pokemon Go, Transformers style.  Niantic is actually the company behind Pokemon Go.  The game will be entering soft launch in select markets soon with a full launch later in the year.  For more details and some pics of the game so far, read on.

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About a month ago, we reported that developer Snowpipe is bringing a brand new Transformers mobile game to the Japanese market.

To kick things off, a closed beta test period was announced to take place between April 14th and 21st. It so happens that 2005 Boards Member Automaster is one of the lucky few to take part in this initiative. Thanks to our member, we now have quite a lot of screenshots from the upcoming game.

Additionally, we received news that Transformers: Alliance is indeed stepping outside of Japan. Australia is selected as another country to go ahead with a beta test.

You can check out all the cool images from the game, after the jump.

A brand new augmented reality game titled as Transformers: Alliance will hit closed beta in Japan on April 14th, 2021.

Currently, the game seems to be only for the Android platform for the Japanese region.

Official Description (Google Translate):

“Convoy, Bumble, Starscream, Megatron and many other Transformers are waiting for you. You can collect parts in the game and meet the desired Transformers in person. Divided into two camps, Cybertron and Destron, a hot battle of Transformers will be fought. “TRANSFORMERS ALLIANCE” allows players to move and occupy bases based on LBS (location information service) and expand the territory of the camp to which they belong. In addition, through AR (Augmented Reality) content, you can summon transformers from various objects such as cars, mobile phones, and PCs (transformers appear by transforming directly from the objects recognized by the camera) and acquire / nurture characters. can.”

• Closed Beta Schedule: April 14th (Wednesday) to April 21st (Wednesday)
• Genre: RPG (AR + LBS)
• Compatible models: Android 8.0 or higher, memory (RAM) 4GB or higher
• Play fee: Basic free-to-play

You can register for the closed beta via the game’s official website. You can also check out a teaser video, after the jump.

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Hasbro’s 2021 Investor Day is currently on the way and we are hit with a good news.

Hasbro subsidiary Wizards Of The Coast  just announced a brand new Transformers Digital Game.

Keep in touch with TFW2005 for more info.