Saber Interactive is officially making a new game based on one of Hasbro's big franchises. The news comes directly from Chris Cocks, formerly president of Wizards of the Coast and now CEO of parent company Hasbro (quote via The Motley Fool):
We have many new digital collaborations in the works, but I'm especially excited to announce this one today, being a personal fan of many of this team's games. Hasbro and Saber Interactive will be collaborating on an all-new video game partnership developed by the team behind 2024's megahit Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2, combining high octane single-player action and amazing multiplayer with Saber's Swarm Tech. This new AAA title, one of our tentpole IPs, is sure to be a hit.
Speculation is already running rampant about what it could be. Hasbro has several big franchises that could be adapted into a videogame: Transformers, G.I. Joe, Power Rangers, Dungeons and Dragons, and Magic: The Gathering, to name the most important ones. However, Transformers seems to be the most fitting for the developer behind the highly successful Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2. There's already a G.I. Joe game starring Snake Eyes in development at Wizards of the Coast-owned developer Atomic Arcade, after all, and Dungeons and Dragons already has its own lineup: a co-op game in development at Starbreeze targeting a 2026 launch; a new game in development at Invoke, formerly Tuque, developer of Dark Alliance; another game in development at Demeo developer Resolution Games, now announced as Demeo x Dungeons & Dungeons: Battlemarked; and another game that Chris Cocks had mentioned a few months ago.
Transformers fans, on the other hand, had to deal with the recent cancelation of Transformers: Reactivate at Splash Damage. Plus, there's the fact that the studio's expertise seems much more suited to a shooter game rather than, say, a Magic: The Gathering game. Still, we'll have to wait and see. It might be a while before we learn more about this project.
As a reminder, Saber is also working on Turok: Origins, a triple-A RPG based on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Jurassic Park Survival, and, of course, the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake that was once in the hands of Aspyr. If that sounds like too much work, it's worth reminding that Saber is a massive company with many offices across the globe and nearly 2,700 employees.
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