Kabam teams up with Hasbro to make a Transformers mobile game (update)

Kabam and Hasbro have created a partnership to make a mobile game based on the Transformers franchise.

San Francisco-based Kabam said it will make a triple-a “massively multiplayer mobile game” based on the iconic Autobots and Decepticon Transformers giant robots. Kevin Chou, chief executive at Kabam, made the announcement over the weekend at the ChinaJoy game event in Shanghai.

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