Transformers: Earth Wars rolls out on mobile as Backflip releases its second Hasbro game

Those robots in disguise just can’t help smashing things on our little ball of dirt in the cosmos.

Mobile game publisher Backflip Studios released Transformers: Earth Wars, a mobile base-building strategy game (think Clash of Clans, but with the iconic Optimus Prime and Megatron instead of those loony warriors from Supercell’s hit). The Space Ape-developed mobile game is on iOS and Android, and it uses writers and voice actors from the original Transformers cartoon from the 1980s. The story extends the Generations Prime Wars trilogy story, which Transformers IP holder Hasbro is rolling out in toys and comics, to mobile gaming, the nearly $37 billion segment where many licensed games live nowadays.