Xbox Game Pass adds Watch Dogs 2 and new title As Dusk Falls in July
Xbox has revealed which games are coming to Game Pass during the second wave of July. It’s not a huge offering, at least compared...
Behind the headlines of real-world hacking and Watch Dogs 2
George Orwell got it wrong about Big Brother watching you. Instead, it’s lots of Little Brothers who are watching all of us via the...
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),...
Ubisoft opens studios in France and Germany to boost blockbuster game development
Ubisoft skipped out on debuting a new Assassin’s Creed game last year, but the French publisher is not skimping on the future of its...
Watch Dogs 2 gets the new content you crave … like a tentacle-clad sex robot
Ubisoft is giving wannabe hackers a new reason to return to San Francisco. The publisher released the No Compromise downloadable content pack for its...
Dallas emergency siren hacking is like a scene out of Watch Dogs 2
On Friday night, hackers took control of all the emergency sirens in the city of Dallas. The city’s warning system of 156 sirens started...
Behind the headlines: Real world hacking and Watch Dogs 2
Tech journalist Violet Blue and Ubisoft game developer Thomas Geffroyd will speak about the appeal and challenges of creating realistic fiction in Watch Dogs...
Ubisoft misses third quarter projections as Watch Dogs 2 underperforms
Ubisoft didn’t have as big a holiday season as it was hoping for. The game publisher reported sales of $564.85 million for the third...
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2016
Let’s face it: 2016 was a bad year in so many uncountable ways. But when it comes to video games, it was a great...
Watch Dogs 2 excoriates Silicon Valley’s tech companies and warns about election fraud
By choosing to set Watch Dogs 2 in the smart city of San Francisco, Ubisoft’s game creators were able to sharpen their criticism of...