How Watch Dogs 2 stayed ahead of current events

For Watch Dogs 2, the truth turned out to be stranger than fiction.

At the GamesBeat Summit today in Berkeley, California. (watch it here), tech journalist Violet Blue and Watch Dogs brand content director Thomas Geffroyd spoke about the eerie similarities between the open-world hacking series and current events. Blue, who’s reported extensively on the underground hacking culture, was a consultant on last year’s Watch Dogs 2.