Steven S. DeKnight; one of the writers of the Transformers Cinematic Universe recently sat down to talk to IGN.

“It’s that wonderful thing where features are now taking a page from television and getting people together to really try and plan things out. It was a wonderful experience. Akiva Goldsman was fantastic and Jeff Pinkner, who’s co-writing the fifth [Transformers] movie with him was phenomenal. Zak Penn… It was just a room full of brilliant, funny, amazing people. And we spent two and a half weeks in physically the best writers room I’ve ever seen in my life. Paramount pulled out all the stops. It was phenomenal! We laughed and joked and told stories and plotted out…”

DeKnight had to keep his secrets about Transformers, noting, “I can’t say what we plotted out, but it was all very exciting and in the next few months we’ll see what moves forward and what doesn’t move forward. But it was a fantastic experience. One of the best experiences of that was when Steven Spielberg popped by one afternoon to just sit and talk and hear what we were working on. Everybody was about to throw up, they were so excited.”

IGN are reporting that Michael Bay has "confirmed" that he will not be returning to direct the fifth live action Transformers movie.  The Hollywood director will, instead, be taking charge of "13 Hours" whilst the Paramount Pictures Transformers 5 will now be have a new person at the helm.

Roberto Orci has been interviewed by IGN regarding the next Transformers animated series.  Roberto confirmed that both he and Alex Kurtzman will be returning to produce the new series and but also has started that it will be more kid-friendly and less intense than Transformers Prime but that they would welcome back Peter Cullen and Frank Welker to the show.

It’s not really a reboot, it’s sort of a continuation of it [Transformers Prime] in a tonally different form. We want to make sure we’re servicing the right audiences. We got to do a very adult version of Transformers that you just saw in this cartoon, a very sophisticated one, and we also want to make sure we don’t leave other kids behind, who love Transformers too and don’t want to be as scared as Transformers Prime could make you, that kind of thing. So we’re going to have a good parallel series that is connected, but it’s a little more friendly to the family.

When asked whether the show will be a "kids-only affair", Roberto replied:

I would say that clever wit always makes it something more adult. I think the look of it, you may find, is more kid-friendly. But we certainly don’t intend to be any less entertaining or any less Transformers. But there is a little bit of truth to that. I won’t deny that also, yes, we’re trying to make sure that younger kids who really love Transformers aren’t put off by its intensity.

You can read the interview in full at http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/08/07/roberto-orci-on-the-next-transformers-animated-series-and-whether-it-will-continue-transformer-primes-story

IGN have posted a preview video, also available on YouTube, from the next Transformers Prime episode which reveals just who the new Transformer is. Watch on to find out.

IGN have posted a trailer for the upcoming Nintendo Wii and DS video game Transformers Prime onto the video sharing website YouTube. The trailer, which can be viewed using the plug-in below, is just over 1 minute in length features the main cast of the Television series.

IGN have posted an exclusive reveal of four new official images of upcoming Transformers Prime toys. They toys shown off are Voyager Optimus Prime, Voyager Bulkhead, Deluxe Zombie Cliffjumper­ and Deluxe Vehicon

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IGN has sat down with one of the producers of Transformers and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Lorenzo di Bonaventura. In the sit down they discuss Transformers 3, which Lorenzo says they are trying to work out a date for, the negative press received for the Mudflap and Skids characters within the US as well as negative press reviews for the 2nd film, Michael Bay's involment in TF3 and Unicron. ­You can r­ead the interview here.

IGN have an article entitled ILM on Transformers Effects where they talk to Scott Farrar regarding the effected on the live action Transformers movie. You can read the article here.