GameSpark News: For the TF VG Stuff That Maybe Doesn't Need Its Own Thread

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

And also so I don't have to just keep saying "Well, there's no thread for it, but someone could maybe make one, I guess."

This is more for stuff like crossovers and collaborations than dedicated TF titles, but I won't stop you if you decide to start talking about that stuff here, too.

Anyway, here's a few goings-on:

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Latest News and Updates!

Your one stop shop for Transformers News, Games and Comics!

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[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

From the front page:

Latest News and Updates!

Your one stop shop for Transformers News, Games and Comics!

www.allspark.com

 

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[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

Whoops, meant to post this last night.

Latest News and Updates!

Your one stop shop for Transformers News, Games and Comics!

www.allspark.com

 

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Dive into 1v1 Strategy with Autobots and Decepticons in Transformers: Tactical Arena

Red Games has dropped a new RTS game with PVP battles on Android. It’s Transformers: Tactical Arena which lets you assemble a squad.

www.droidgamers.com

Tactical Arena is out for Android and, quite out of character, it's also available in Japan (Most TF apps are blocked in Japan and Takara didn't usually release a Japan version).

However, it's about 1.21gb to download from Google Play, so it's not really a "download and play" game while you're on a train. it's best to download it at indoors and play it later?

Mini review.

Pros:
- Landscape mode supported.
- Hardware mouse supported (so you can connect it up to a telly and play on the big screen, etc).
- Not geoblocked in Japan.

Cons:
- Android "back" Hardware/softkeys not supported, as app seems to be designed via iOS GUI guidelines (so we have to press the top left-hand corner of the screen to exit any screens).

(Edit: - This might be due to this game being a lazy port of an iOS game from 3 years ago).

- Both Autobots and Decepticons fight on the same team and the enemy often has exactly the same characters as us, so it's often difficult to understand who's fighting who. This could have been avoided by always making the other teams "shattered glass" versions of other repainted versions (such as Nemesis Prime, etc), like an "away kit" for football teams, etc.
- Have to press "home" button to exit app (as there's no "back button" support).

- Exiting app this way (and/or clearing "recent apps") means app won't start again until we force-stop the app and/or clear the cache EVERY SINGLE TIME.

- Game has multiple, multiple currencies and messy menus (presumably designed to confuse users into buying lootboxes, etc).

- Related to above, it seems very "FTP2W".


I could only really stomach this for about an hour, on and off, throughout the day (in small breaks), but the constant need to force-close and clear the cache to restart the app was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

It seems the iOS version, released 3 years ago, was equally as bad.

 

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(Source: - Twitter.)

 

[Gizmoboy]

Kind of looks like that deluxe transforming Lego set of Bumblebee that I've seen around.

 

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Another rubbish F2P2W TF mobile game, featuring the Evergreen designs...zzz

 

[Rhinox]

Been seeing a lot of ads for that. Frankly, that doesn't do nearly as much for me as Skeletor tempted me to play that one game.
Overall, it's just skins in shovelware. Pass.

Now, when Transformers decks come to Balatro . . . .

 

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Another F2PTW mobile crossover "event". This time it's by some (possibly dodgy) Chinese company that hasn't put their postal address in the mandatory contact section at Google Play (Instead, they put an email address with random characters in it). Their Twitter page states they're in China.

The designs seem to be a direct copy of Evergreen and some other toy lines (looking like they traced the toys and called it a day), plus they got some of the characters' mottos wrong (such as Megatron's).

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

Name: Optimus Prime
Faction: Optimus Prime
Position: Optimus Prime
Vehicle Mode: Optimus Prime

 

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Name: Optimus Prime
Faction: Optimus Prime
Position: Optimus Prime
Vehicle Mode: Optimus Prime

"It's Primin' time!"

 

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Splash Damage confirms layoff plans as Transformers game is cancelled | VGC

Game cancellation means a number of Splash Damage roles are “potentially at risk of redundancy”…

www.videogameschronicle.com

 

[Rhinox]

Not at all a surprise at this point.

 

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[Steevy Maximus]

Mentioned in today's Hasbro Investor report:
Hasbro has partnered with Saber Interactive for a "AAA game featuring a tentpole IP". Reportedly being developed by Saber St. Petersberg (the same team behind 2024's hit Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2). According to Cox's comments, the game will feature "high octane single player action and amazing multiplayer".

No specific IP was mentioned, but given Hasbro has the WotC subsidiary Atomic Arcade chugging away on a GI Joe Snake Eyes AAA title...the most likely IP is probably Transformers. Especially given the team's prior development. That said, a Magic or D&D title isn't out of the question, either.