Hasbro's claims about classic Transformers games being lost on Activision's hard drives were made "in error"

UPDATE: Hasbro “apologize to Activision and regret any confusion”

Update:Hasbro have now clarified their previous comments, claiming they were made “in error”:

“To clarify, comments that suggest Transformers games have been lost were made in error. We apologize to Activision and regret any confusion; they’ve been great partners, and we look forward to future opportunities to work together.”

Original story:Transformersowners Hasbro have said they would like to see older video games based on the beloved toy franchise to make a return - except those games are lost somewhere on a hard drive inside Activision.

“Sadly, apparently Activision’s not sure what hard drives they’re on in their building,” they said. “When a company eats a company that eats a company things get lost, and that’s very frustrating.”

Hasbro added that they already have everything for Fall of Cybertron and some of the War for Cyberstorn assets, but had to boot up an old PC and rip them from the original game files to find them. Apparently Activision kept unhelpfully sending concept art when asked for the assets, which doesn’t exactly bode well.

That said, salvation may apparently be at hand if the Microsoft acquisition of Activision goes through, with Hasbro optimistic that Microsoft might dig out the older Transformers games and bring them to Game Pass.

“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,” Hasbro said. “We want those games back up for people to have a chance to play.”

As for future video games, Hasbro said “everything is always on the table” - expressing enthusiasm to partner with pretty much anyone who puts a good enough idea forward.

“We definitely want to partner with video game companies, clearly Nintendo partnered with Lego and they made a Nintendo system, or there was the Super Nintendo Transformer at one point in Japan, like we would love to be able to do something along those lines,” they said. “Any company out there, like I don’t know, a partnership with Sega, a partnership with Microsoft or something, Sony – even just to make a Playstation, would be awesome.”

They’re already teamed up withGears Tacticsmakers Splash Damage to makeTransformers: Reactivate, a co-op action game thatfeatured a lot more boring fleshy humans in its trailerthan you might hope for from a series where massive robots can turn into cool fighter jets or friggin’ dinosaurs.