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...
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...
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 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...
Watch Dogs 2’s hackivists go to war with its hacker-proof city
The original Watch Dogs is a revenge tale and a warning about the threats that hackers pose to smart cities. Watch Dogs 2 offers...
Watch Dogs 2 hands-on: The hacktivist crusade against the smart city of San Francisco
VentureBeat’s office isn’t there, but you’ll find plenty of familiar sights in the San Francisco depicted in Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2. The City by...
The DeanBeat: The intersection of sci-fi, video games, and real-world tech
Video game designer Will Wright was fond of saying that a dog-eared copy of Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash was the business plan...