I was just reading today that EA and Hasbro are teaming up for casual games. I guess Hasbro bought back the rights from Atari for a lot of their IP's. I wonder if this will also transfer over eventually to the transformers IP.
In the press release they mentioned a flurry of Hasbro's IPs, but oddly the Transformers were missing from the long list. The only reason I see for the biggest Hasbro name to go unmentioned is that EA didn't get it.
Yeah, either that or Hasbro couldn't afford to buy back the IP from atari. I would imagine that one would be worth a lot of money. Does anyone know if the new animated series would be considered a seperate IP? From what I've read, the movie was considered a seperate IP as activision has the rights to make games from that.
Hasbro have already bought the Transformers ip from Atari years ago. This is why Activision were sold the rights to develop Transformers The Game.
I don't really care if EA doesn't get the TF license- they spend waaaayyy too much time cutting cookies to make truly great action games. (not that they couldn't 1-up Activision though)
Well EA's come a long way in the last couple years. Starting to develop original IP's and working more towards making a fun game instead of pumping out boring sequels. Though the madden's and fifa's always seem the same. Though I'm probably a bit partial to them since I work there.
Well, I don't mean any offense to them, but with such a powerfull, software only company, with huge income from sports titles that don't have to change much each year for huge profits, I think they could do better. A lot of their games are by no means bad, but also not great.
No offence taken, I agree with you on the sports titles. Their latest non-sports title have been a lot better, like the new simpsons is gonna be amazing. I've never laughed so hard at a game before. Plus if they got transformers lol, there'd be nothing that could stop me from getting on that team.
