Announced at The Game Awards in 2022, a new entry from a major IP has kicked off the list of canceled games in 2025. The game in question is none other than Splash Damage‘s Transformers: Reactivate, which was revealed with a pretty flashy trailer just two years ago. Layoffs are expected as a result of the cancellation.
Transformers: Reactivate canceled amid debates over game development budgets
Splash Damage announced the cancellation on X. Its statement also revealed that “a number of roles” could be eliminated as a result. These layoffs follow tumultuous years for the games industry, which saw numerous games fail, thousands of jobs lost, and massive financial losses.
Transformers: Reactivate was billed as a 1-4 player online action game for PC and unspecified consoles. “The gravest threat to humanity has arrived, and it’s already won,” reads an official synopsis. “Earth is no longer ours; it belongs to them. All we have left is our hope for the Autobots, as we salvage them from the rubble left behind.”
Transformers: Reactivate’s cancellation comes amid ongoing debates about ballooning video game budgets, which many have been sounding the alarm about for years. Splash Damage hasn’t explained why it canned the title, but we expect to have more information in due course.
