{"id":10153,"date":"2018-01-12T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/312988"},"modified":"2018-01-12T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T23:53:00","slug":"activisions-transformers-games-pulled-from-digital-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/activisions-transformers-games-pulled-from-digital-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Activision&#8217;s Transformers games pulled from digital stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hasbro&#8217;s licensing deal with Activision has expired, causing <em>Transformers: War for Cybertron<\/em>, <em>Fall of Cybertron<\/em> and <em>Devastation<\/em> to be quietly removed from digital marketplaces in\u00a0December 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2018\/01\/11\/why-activisions-transformers-games-are-no-longer-available-digitally?abthid=5a57b20397030b094100000c&amp;watch\">As reported by IGN,<\/a>\u00a0Hasbro confirmed that its contract with Activision to publish <em>Transformers<\/em> games has expired, which may be the reason for the games disappearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hasbro has not\u00a0disclosed whether there are\u00a0plans for future PC and console games based on the <em>Transformers<\/em> franchise, but multiple mobile games including <em>Forged to Fight<\/em> are still available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside>This is not the first time licensed games by Activision have been removed. <em>Deadpool<\/em>, <em>Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions<\/em>\u00a0were delisted\u00a0from digital stores back in 2014.\u00a0<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hasbro&#8217;s licensing deal with Activision has expired, causing Transformers: War for Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron and Devastation to be quietly removed from digital marketplaces in\u00a0December 2017.\u00a0 As reported by IGN,\u00a0Hasbro confirmed that its contract with Activision to publish Transformers games has expired, which may be the reason for the games disappearing.\u00a0 Hasbro has not\u00a0disclosed whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}