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...
Why Watch Dogs 2 creators chose to focus on San Francisco’s hacktivism
When Dominic Guay started working on Watch Dogs more than eight years ago, his mandate was to create a new brand for Ubisoft. The...
Privacy author Violet Blue helped Ubisoft capture San Francisco’s hacktivism in Watch Dogs 2
Violet Blue grew up in San Francisco, and she writes about hacker culture and cybercrime in the region’s hacking community. That made Blue, an...
Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 game director tells us how to take on the surveillance state
Watch Dogs 2 is an open world game about hacktivists taking on the smart city of San Francisco. Its anti-hero is Marcus Holloway, a...
Watch us play Eagle Flight: Ubisoft’s VR bird simulator
I believe it was the Steve Miller Band who said, “Flying like an eagle into the future would make a damn fine virtual reality...
Watch Dogs 2 delayed 2 weeks on PC
Ubisoft is notorious for treating the PC versions of its games as if they aren’t nearly as important as their console counterparts. Or that’s...
Ubisoft relaunches Uplay Store in time for Watch Dogs 2
Ubisoft doesn’t want to split all of its revenues with retailers. The French publisher announced today that it has relaunched the Uplay Store. This...
Ubisoft sheds more details on its victory over Vivendi at annual meeting
Ubisoft shed more light on its annual meeting where its slate of directors was elected despite a looming takeover battle with French media company...
Ubisoft CEO: NX will put Nintendo ‘back in the race’
Nintendo has clammed up about the Nintendo NX, but thankfully, the world has Yves Guillemot. Ubisoft held a call with its shareholders today to...
Ubisoft claims win over Vivendi’s hostile takeover in board election
Ubisoft evidently won a victory today over French media company Vivendi in its attempt to thwart a hostile takeover, as the French publisher’s board...