Pinball lovers and Dungeons & Dragons fanatics alike will probably be interested in this lush-looking, and wildly expensive, new pinball machine.
]]>Transformers is one of those properties that will probably be around forever in one way or another. Right now, it's enjoying a new surge in popularity thanks to solid TV efforts in recent years and live-action movies that actually feel like Saturday morning cartoons. Up next, we also have Transformers One, the franchise's first animated movie made for theaters in decades, so of course, we're hearing more about the Cybertronians' big screen future.
]]>Following 2023's Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, the second movie in the rebooted live-action Transformers continuity, Paramount Pictures has Transformers One almost ready and next in line, and its first trailer has finally arrived.
]]>Following a report which suggested Hasbro had been in discussions with Tencent and Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian regarding a planned sale of the Dungeons & Dragons IP, Wizards of the Coast has denied that it’s looking to execute such a sale.
]]>Payday studio Starbreeze Entertainment has announced it is developing a licensed Dungeons & Dragons game.
]]>Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid is getting a Street Fighter cross-over pack featuring Ryu and Chun-Li.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 will go into Early Access later this year, according to Wizards of the Coast parent company Hasbro.
]]>The first news about Halo Infinite in months comes from a bit of an unlikely source.
]]>Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid is coming to a console and PC near you.
]]>Yo-kai Watch developer Level-5 has locked down a deal to help bring its phenomenally popular 3DS games are coming to English-speaking audiences.
]]>Transformers Universe has added another sad (and probably final) chapter to its troubled history.
]]>Transformers owner Hasbro has licensed the property for a new turn based strategy game for tablet.
]]>Transformers: Rise Of The Dark Spark is indeed a thing, and will merge the canon established in the games so far with that of the Michael Bay movie series.
]]>Jagex has released a new trailer for Transformer Universe. If robots having a punch-up is your thing, you're in luck, buddy.
]]>Transformers: Age Of Extinction looks like it'll get the inevitable movie-game adaptation treatment, as suggested by this new trademark filed by Hasbro.
]]>Ubisoft has announced it has signed a deal with Hasbro to create console games based on the board game creator's properties such as Monopoly, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, and more.
]]>Toy manufacturer Hasbro has spent $112 million to acquire a 70% majority stake in mobile developer Backflip Studios. The Colorado company is best known for DragonVale, but is also behind Ragdoll Blaster and Paper Toss. GamesIndustry reports Blackflip is generating nearly $100 million in revenue annually, mostly from iOS games. Despite how much Hasbro ponied up, it expects the deal to have either no or a positive effect on its annual balance sheet.
]]>My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic creator Lauren Faust has signed on to help fan developer Mane6 resurrect its tribute fighting game. Hasbro shut the not-for-profit title down last month, but as detailed on Mane6's blog, Faust is going to help develop all new characters so as not to waste the significant work the team put into what seemed to be shaping up as a pretty solid fighter.
]]>A fan-built 2D fighter based on the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cartoon series has been shut down. Hasbro served up a cease and desist over the project, and in an update to the tribute's blog, the Mane6 team said it will comply while attempting to negotiate. The Fighting is Magic project has lost a couple of high profile members recently, too. Gameloft currently holds the license for My Little Pony games.
]]>PopCap and Hasbro have teamed up to turn Bejeweled and Bejeweled Blitz into face-to-face games. Polygon reports Bejeweled will task players with matching tiles and come with a download code for Bejeweled 3, while Bejeweled Blitz requires the rapid creation of card stacks and comes with free in-app items for the Facebook game. It's not the weirdest board game the industry has produced; have you seen Words with Friends? Ha ha, gosh.
]]>Hasbro and Gameloft have joined forces to produce mobile games based on the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Littlest Pet Shop brands.
]]>Activision and Hasbro have announced a videogame version of Battleship, which is in development at Double Helix Games.
]]>Runescape-owner Jagex has released a teaser video for its Transformers Universe MMO.
]]>Runescape-owner Jagex said today it's developing an MMO based on Transformers. The game is to launch in 2012 in North America, Latin America, Europe, New Zealand and Australia. No other detail was given - as to whether this will be a browser-based affair, and so on - but it's confirmed that Hasbro is to "launch" the game.
]]>EA's announced G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra this morning, to release on August 7 alongside the live-action movie of the same name.
It's an all-platform effort, and will take up where the movie leaves off. It includes a co-op mode, but multiplayer and DLC were not mentioned.
See? Sometimes old toys do come back to life. Just not in the way you thought.
Press release after the jump.
]]>Hasbro's announced the launch of legal action against the creators of Facebook's Scrabulous.
The news comes after the firm request that the Scrabble-alike be removed from the networking site earlier this year fell on deaf ears: you can still play the game while managing your online popularity.
“Hasbro has an obligation to act appropriately against infringement of our intellectual properties,” said Barry Nagler, Hasbro’s General Counsel.
]]>Looks as though the nuking of Scrabulous last month wasn't exactly coincidental. EA today confirmed Scrabble and Monopoly for multiple platforms as part of a sizeable deal with Hasbro. Did you know EA had a "Hasbro Studio"?
“EA and Hasbro want to give families new ways to enjoy games; we want give them a new way to come together, connect, spend time and have fun around the TV or online,” said Chip Lange, vice president and general manager of EA’s Hasbro Studio. “Bringing the spirit of these games to life as video games has allowed us to create really unique and creative experiences for families and friends of all ages to enjoy together at home or online.”
Full press release after the link.
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