High Moon Studios
High Moon Studios (formerly Sammy Studios) is a video game development studio based out of California. It is a subsidiary of Activision, and therefore owned by Activision Blizzard.
It is known for the cowboy-vampire-horror-shooter game Darkwatch and a Bourne Conspiracy video game adaptation, both of which were well-received by gamers and critics alike. They developed the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions of Transformers: War for Cybertron, released in 2010; the 2012 sequel, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, also for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC (the latter of which was developed by Mercenary Technologies); and the 2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon game for Xbox and PS3.
Some of their employees include:
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High Moon Studios and continuity
High Moon Studios has, at times, made comments to the gaming press that have avoided giving a direct answer to the question of the continuity of War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron, or have contradicted Hasbro's official position on the subject. Both games are part of Hasbro's current Aligned continuity family (which is headed by the Transformers: Prime cartoon), while High Moon Studios have suggested (if not outright stating) to the press that the games are part of the original 1980s cartoon series, and that the studio considers "making authenticity to the G1 cartoon series as high as possible to be [their] biggest priority".
Being ignorant to Hasbro's statements on the subject and seemingly without any other easily available information to the contrary, this has led the gaming press and much of the gaming public to conclude that the games indeed belong to the cartoon of their childhoods. Even some portions of the Transformers fandom have refused to believe that the games have anything to do with Transformers: Prime.
To High Moon's credit, while Fall of Cybertron features many, many references to the Generation 1 cartoon and the original animated movie, it also has more ties to the Aligned continuity (compared to War for Cybertron) and features events that have (so far) only occurred in this fictional universe.
For the record, the events depicted in both games are completely incompatible with the Generation 1 cartoon.