Watch Dogs 2 takes dig at vanity of infamous pharmaceutical CEO
The designers of Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 enjoy ripping stories from the headlines about cyberattacks, as many of the missions in the fictional game resemble...
This Watch Dogs 2 mission resembles the Sony Pictures hack
Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 debuts on Tuesday on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. It is a work of fiction, but the game is...
Watch Dogs 2 lets you drive a talking car similar to Knight Rider’s K.I.T.T.
The original Watch Dogs sold more than 10 million units when it debuted in 2014, and Ubisoft’s sequel to that game arrives on Tuesday...
Cisco launches cloud service for smart cities as game about hacking smart cities debuts
Here’s a weird intersection of fiction and real life. Cisco is announcing today a new cloud service to enable smart cities, just a day...
A pro snowboarder and a gold medal skier react to Ubisoft’s Steep
Ubisoft says its Steep extreme winter sports video game is highly realistic. And to back that up, the French video game company made a...
How Ubisoft built a virtual mountain and then created a video game around it
Steep was born as a labor of love by a team that wanted to give you the feeling that you’re in the Alps flying...
Ubisoft’s Steep is a kinetic dive into extreme winter sports
The team at Ubisoft Annecy has lived in the shadows of the big mountains in Steep for a long time, and they’ve finally got...
Vivendi’s latest purchase of Ubisoft stock shows it isn’t going away
In September, Ubisoft executives breathed a sigh of relief as Vivendi didn’t launch a hostile bid to control the French video game company’s board....
Ubisoft grows thanks to The Division and digital sales, but Watch Dogs 2 preorders hurt guidance
Ubisoft beat its guidance for the first half of the company’s fiscal 2017, but it is taking a conservative outlook for the rest of the...
Ubisoft researcher scouted Watch Dogs 2 by hanging out with hacktivists in SF and DefCon
Thomas Geffroyd spent about 20 years preparing to be the hacker advisor inside Ubisoft for the Watch Dogs 2 game. Well, not really. But...