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Boxing!, Stranded and Brain Genius, and titles based on major brands from partners including Atari, Activision, Konami, Harrah's, Hasbro, Warner Bros., Microsoft, PlayFirst, PopCap Games, SEGA and Sony. Its portfolio of top-rated games includes original titles Super K.O. Glu (NASDAQ:GLUU) is a leading global publisher of mobile games. TRANSFORMERS G1: AWAKENING will be available beginning Fall 2008 and available worldwide through Glu’s global network of wireless carriers and distributors.įor more information, visit About Glu Mobile “With TRANSFORMERS G1: AWAKENING, we’ve incorporated classic elements true to the original franchise while creating an innovative and enthralling mobile strategy game that will appeal to TRANSFORMERS fans new and old.” “TRANSFORMERS has a vast consumer base worldwide, and we saw great enthusiasm and reception with the launch of our TRANSFORMERS game last year,” said Jill Braff, senior vice president of global publishing, Glu. The upcoming game will be the second title from the licensing agreement between Glu and HPG, Hasbro’s (NYSE:HAS) licensing division, bringing the TRANSFORMERS brand and characters upon the fast-growing mobile gaming market.
TRANSFORMERS G1: AWAKENING will take players back to the TRANSFORMERS’ roots and include characters, storyline and classic visuals from the original GENERATION 1 series – the hugely popular original cartoon that spawned a pop culture phenomenon. (Nasdaq:GLUU), a leading global publisher of mobile games, today announced that it is currently developing a new TRANSFORMERS mobile game, TRANSFORMERS G1: AWAKENING, scheduled to launch worldwide this Fall. SAN MATEO, Calif.-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Glu Mobile Inc. New Title Currently in Development Follows the Global Success of Glu’s 2007 Game Based on TRANSFORMERS Film (Not really – it'll be us.Glu to Bring First Generation TRANSFORMERS to Mobile Phones with this Fall’s Launch of TRANSFORMERS G1: AWAKENING Hit the 'Track It!' button to get updates directly from Jazz. We took a first look at Transformers G1: Awakening a couple of weeks ago, which suitably piqued our interest as we tentatively approach the game's worldwide September release date. Nostalgia junkies are a hard audience to please (since we presume to know more about the source material than anyone else), so there's a lot of tension riding on the quality of this G1 adaptation. "With Transformers G1: Awakening, we've incorporated classic elements true to the original franchise while creating an innovative and enthralling mobile strategy game that will appeal to Transformers fans new and old." "Transformers has a vast consumer base worldwide, and we saw great enthusiasm and reception with the launch of our Transformers game last year," said Jill Braff, senior veep at Glu, in her best Optimus Prime voice. To be honest, the Transformers film was mostly a pile of rust cleverly disguised as a CGI extravaganza, so we were glad to hear Glu is returning to the classic originator of the franchise with the mobile game follow-up.įor those who, for some bizarre reason, don't still collect the Transformers toys as they rapidly descend into their mid-30s, it's probably worth mentioning that 'G1' stands for Generation 1 the cartoon us geeks consider to be the progenitor of the franchise.