Categories Posted inin Gameplay This Watch Dogs 2 mission resembles the Sony Pictures hack Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 14, 2016 2 min 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... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Watch Dogs 2 lets you drive a talking car similar to Knight Rider’s K.I.T.T. Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 14, 2016 1 min 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... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Cisco launches cloud service for smart cities as game about hacking smart cities debuts Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 14, 2016 2 min 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... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business A pro snowboarder and a gold medal skier react to Ubisoft’s Steep Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 9, 2016 3 min Ubisoft says its Steep extreme winter sports video game is highly realistic. And to back that up, the French video game company made a... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay How Ubisoft built a virtual mountain and then created a video game around it Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 9, 2016 6 min 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... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business Ubisoft’s Steep is a kinetic dive into extreme winter sports Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 9, 2016 6 min 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... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Vivendi’s latest purchase of Ubisoft stock shows it isn’t going away Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 8, 2016 1 min 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.... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Ubisoft grows thanks to The Division and digital sales, but Watch Dogs 2 preorders hurt guidance Posted byby Jeff Grubb November 3, 2016 3 min 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... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Ubisoft researcher scouted Watch Dogs 2 by hanging out with hacktivists in SF and DefCon Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 26, 2016 9 min Thomas Geffroyd spent about 20 years preparing to be the hacker advisor inside Ubisoft for the Watch Dogs 2 game. Well, not really. But... Continue Reading 9 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Why Watch Dogs 2 creators chose to focus on San Francisco’s hacktivism Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 25, 2016 10 min When Dominic Guay started working on Watch Dogs more than eight years ago, his mandate was to create a new brand for Ubisoft. The... Continue Reading 10 min