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We received some fun news from Hasbro directly, as they attended SXSW this past weekend, and together with Mashable House, helped launch (yes, again) the upcoming Transformers: Earth Wars mobile device game. The event featured a new social media platform account on Snapchat, as well as a live set from the upcoming Roll Out album, with Mount Holly, and a Bumblebee suit like the ones seen at Universal Studios! Check out more info and images below!
If you haven’t already seen on social media, it was a MASSIVE week for the Transformers at SXSWi. The brand partnered with the Mashable House to spread the word about the Spring launch of TRANSFORMERS: EARTH WARS, a new real-time strategy combat game which fans can pre-register for now (at the hyperlink) to receive a free character when the game launches. The week also marked the official launch of OptimusPrime’s Snapchat (handle: optimusprime)!
As part of the action, Hasbro’s Transformers brought along a 10-ft tall, fully functional Bumblebee transformer that visitors had a blast taking photos with. Bumblebee was also in attendance for the TRANFORMERS PARTY on Saturday, March 12, where attendees drank custom cocktails like The Marg-a-tron and Bumblee-tini and rocked out to an exclusive live performance by Mount Holly, who performed their new title track Roll Out from the upcoming Transformers-inspired studio album Roll Out.
As we get close to the full launch for the Hasbro-Backflip-Space Ape mobile game Transformers: Earth Wars, their official Twitter account has posted a number of Autobot-centric wallpapers for mobile devices. Check the out here and mirrored below!
Today we are bringing you another Transformers: Earth Wars video from YouTuber TheGameHuntah. Previously we brought you a more in-depth look at character classes. In this video TheGameHunter walks us through the tutorial and gives beginner tips. He reviews the basic rules of the game from both an offensive and defensive strategy. He then continues on to cover the importance of balancing your home base, the various resources required for basic tasks and the first few battles of campaign mode.
Transformers: Earth Wars is being developed by Space Ape Games and Blackflip Studios and will be available on Android and iOS. If you want to be first in line to play, make sure to pre-register here.
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Howdy fellow Seibertronians, we have a highlight video of the upcoming Transformers: Earth Wars Mobile game, which will be available on iOS and Android. You can pre-register for the game here. This video is brought to you by YouTuber TheGameHuntah and highlights several of the Decepticon classes available in the game. The video continues on to show the squad selection screen and highlights the importance of balancing classes before going into battle. TheGameHuntah wraps up the video with a demonstration of a battle and various tactics that can be employed.
Leader class Megatron has the ability to crash through walls.
Warrior class Blugdeon has high defense and can also crash through defenses.
Air class Starscream has medium range airstrikes.
Deployer class Soundwave can send his cassettebots to specific targets.
Gunner class Breakdown has long range attacks that can shoot over walls.
Scout class Kickback Glass Gas Mine ability causes targets to take more damage and grants extra ability points for buildings destroyed.
You can get a closer look at the in-game character models here. You may notice that some models are loosely based on previously released figures.
Have you pre-registered for the game yet? What do you think of the game so far? Hit the jump and sound off in the discussion below.
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It is time for the Transformers Robots in Disguise App to have a new update and that leads to a ton of new possible characters and classes that can be unlocked. While some of these new additions have been game specific (as Ironhide and Pumpkin Optimus were), many of these will become toys. Some, like One Step Bisk, have already been revealed but we have other nice new surprises.
Firstly, Bisk and Ratchet seem to be getting quie a few new toys. Also, for those who thought it wasn't fair that only the Autobots were getting all the repaints, the Decepticon characters Paralon and Scatterspike appear to be redecos of Warriors Scorponok and Quillfire.
Below is a list and images of all the new charaters found in the app (courtesy fo the snakas blog) and please remember that these are only possibilities of upcoming toys and not confirmation that we will be getting them.
• Power Surge Optimus Prime
• Warrior Power Surge Optimus Prime
• Warrior Power Surge Elite Optimus Prime
• Switchblade Night Bumblebee
• Power Hero Bumblebee
• Power Hero Surge Bumblebee
Seibertronians, Thanks to fellow member ScottyP and the DENA forums, we have confirmation that Transformers: Battle Tactics is closing down. The announcement came this morning. Here is the schedule for the shut down:
2/25: That's today. The game will receive no further updates, and all updates that have been in the works are officially cancelled. Support, forums, and the Fan Page will remain open. There will be no events at this time until the Grand Finale.
3/4: The preview of the Grand Finale event will be posted to the forums.
3/10: TRANSFORMERS: Battle Tactics will be removed from the App Store, All options to purchase gold and Energon will be disabled, and the TFBT forums will also be closed.
3/11: The Grand Finale event will begin.
5/12: The Grand Finale event will end, the servers will be turned off, support will be closed, and Transformers: Battle Tactics will be no more .
How do you feel about the game closing down? Will the game be missed? Let us know your opinion in the comments section and stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your latest transformers news and galleries.
Thanks to the video gaming site NeoGAF we have confirmation for the Chinese mainland release of Transformers: Devastation! The game is set to be released on March 3rd and will be spoken in simplified Chinese. There are also some limited edition bonuses to go with the release: an Autobot and a Decepticon Play Station Bundle and a limited edition Steelbook case for the game. The images are mirrored below for your enjoyment.
Does this excite you? Like what you are seeing? Let us know by heading on down to the comments section and stay tuned for all the latest news and galleries around here at Seibertron.com.
To go along with all the Earth Wars mobile game updates, we now have tons of new images of the characters this game will include. The whole collection can be found Here in our Seibertron.com gallery. The characters included in this gallery are: Bludgeon, Bumblebee, Skydive, Grimlock, Ironhide, Jetfire, Kickback, Megatron, Mirage, Optimus, Prowl, Ratchet, Razorclaw, Shockwave, Shrapnel, Skywarp, Soundwave, Starscream, Swindle, and Thundercracker. Some of the images have been mirrored below for your enjoyment:
There is also a video gallery uploaded as well:
And finally, here is the pre-registration link for the game:
So do these guys look cool? Excited for further developments in the game? Ready to Pre-register? Let us know what your opinion is in the comments section and stay tuned for all the latest news and galleries.
Seibertronian AzT has alerted us to a CNBC Squawk Box interview with Hasbro's CEO Brain Goldner. During the interview Goldner speaks about Hasbro's brand "blueprints" which are being driven by media properties. To that; Goldner briefly mentions the new Transformers live action movie and speaks of Hasbro's partnership with Backflip Studios, one of the developers of the new mobile game, Transformers: Earth Wars.
Goldner also "squashes" the Hasbro/Mattel merger rumor as "just a rumor".
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Even more coverage is rolling in about the newly and fully announced Transformers: Earth Wars mobile game from Hasbro, Space Ape and Backflip - with new reveals too in the form of Windblade and Slipstream as playable characters! The interview with Space Ape founders John Earner and Simon Hadesnippeted below from Gamesindustry.biz also offers insights into the game type, the build the companies have been using, and the companies' commitment to the project and aesthetic choices. Check it out, and head here for the full thing!
The studio [Space Ape Games] has, so far, made its name as something of a specialist in what its founders call 'build and battlers', the mid-core asynchronous multiplayer genre established to such great success by Supercell and Clash of Clans. It's already had two successes in the genre: Samurai Siege and Rival Kingdoms, but now Earner and Hade are looking to take the next step with the attachment of a globally recognised IP in the shifting shape of Hasbro's Transformers for its new game Earth Wars.
"I guess you could say it's the modern take on classic Transformers, where the characters are bigger, chunkier and more colourful, rather than the [Michael] Bay-style, which uses more organic characters," says product owner Chris White when I ask if they're tying Earth Wars to the Bay-directed films. "It works very well for us because they're very readable when they're small."
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"Talking to a lot of the Transformer fans we have over the course of development, it's amazing how many of them haven't played any games in this genre before," says White. "Whereas you'd expect everyone to have played Clash of Clans, they actually haven't, so we're introducing them to the genre for the first time. One really interesting thing we saw during development, when we were getting Transformers fans in, is that, as a developer you've obviously seen a lot of games, a lot of tutorials. You start to think that everyone must know how this works, that you need to teach the player something different. Actually, there's tons of Transformers fans out there that don't know the mechanics of the genre, or indeed any game.
"It's easy to be cynical, having played tons of games in the genre and developed a few of them, but then you realise that maybe in some areas you've actually gone a little too far with the innovation and you need to dial it back a bit and give people something they're more familiar with."
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"Transformers is huge in Asia," Earner corrects me. "We have the rights to launch the game globally, we secured the rights via Takara to introduce the game to Japan, which is the only territory where Hasbro doesn't have the rights, but there's a long and productive relationship between the two. So it's not so much that we don't have plans for Asia, it's that Asia requires an extra amount of detail. We won't go live in those countries on day one because we want to put real time into it.
"A pleasant surprise for me, having spent a week in China last year: we always knew that China had become excited about what we call 'Bay-led' Transformers. Bay-led is a country or person whose introduction to the brand comes from the recent films. France is Bay-led, believe it or not, as is China. We suspected that, as a result they might not recognise some of the characters, such as Grimlock. But the mid-core player on the coast of China is also male, 28-45. They know this stuff and they love it, so we're extremely optimistic about it, but like you say, they're a different market, you can't just come at it straight."
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