The latest map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops II preps for launch with a brand new preview, detailing the best new strategies.
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Spiders Studio and Focus Home Interactive launch a massive Mars: War Logs update, featuring a completely re-done story closer to the game's original French origin.
The E3 trailer for Ninja Theory's Fightback
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Polytron and Phil Fish announce the anticipated follow-up to Fez at E3 2013.
A renewed blight savages the world of Dragon Age: Inquisition, and of course Morrigan makes an appearance. What's she up to now?
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The world of Watch Dogs has so far been explained as a virtual GTA-like hackathon for protagonist Aiden Pierce, a vigilante who rights the wrongs he sees in the world. But Ubisoft has finally lifted the veil on the world of fixers and how players can team up or work against each other in the game.
If you can't give a console maker exclusive games, you can at least get a little leverage out of exclusive content. Ubisoft is offering up exclusive missions for Assassin's Creed IV and Watch Dogs on PlayStation 4 and PS3, Sony announced during its pre-E3 press conference, including the return of Assassin's Creed III: Liberation star Aveline.
No, CGI trailers don't represent gameplay. Yes, they are fluffy marketing to get you unduly excited. But by gum, the cinematic E3 trailer for Ubisoft's open-world cyber-vigilante 'em up Watch Dogs is awfully pretty, if a bit eerie. We can still enjoy it as an attractive and well-made video for our enjoyment which by pure chance is somehow connected to a video game. Call it tone-setting and world-building, if you must.
Who knew? Computer nerds can fight too! Watch Dogs protagonist Aiden Pierce may be a technical genius, but he's also quite the thug when it comes to combat, according to a new video focusing on the motion capture for the game. Man, who was the bully in his school?
Ubisoft has detailed some of the pre-order bonuses for its GTA-style, Chicago-based hackfest Watch Dogs, with exclusive single-player missions and goodies available from Amazon and GameStop.
Four and a half years ago, Ubisoft gave a simple, but daunting, mandate to its Montreal studio: make a new IP. And so, the team began work on "Nexus," the codename for what's now known as Watch Dogs.
With the freedom to create whatever they wanted, the team at Ubisoft Montreal flocked to the open world genre. "The two core things we knew from the beginning of our project was we wanted to create a new IP. That was the mandate we got from Ubisoft. And we wanted to be an open-world game because we think that's a great way to start a brand," senior producer Dominic Guay told Shacknews.
When Watch Dogs made its sudden and surprising debut at E3 last year, I couldn't help but be mesmerized by it. It's not often that a game--seemingly as ambitious as this one, at that--can take the entire industry by surprise. What was Watch Dogs?
After seeing 30 minutes of the game in action, I have to admit that much of the mystery is gone. It's very clear what Watch Dogs is: it's Ubisoft's take on Grand Theft Auto, with a magical hacking twist.
Ubisoft's Watch Dogs has been signaling the next generation since before it was even officially announced. Now that the company got confirming it for PlayStation 4 out of the way, it can start to open up about the features that will take advantage of the increased horsepower.
Ubisoft's next big original AAA IP is set to launch this November. On November 19th, Watch Dogs will be available on all current-gen consoles and PC. (Next-gen versions will be dated later, as PS4 has no release date and the next Xbox hasn't been announced yet.)
To coincide with the announcement, Ubisoft has released a new trailer for the game, showing off more gameplay from the open world hack 'em up. And of course, there's the requisite retailer-exclusive pre-order bonus. By getting the game at GameStop, you'll get an exclusive poster.
Ubisoft hasn't earned the best reputation on PC, with the publisher often releasing games late on the platform. However, Watch Dogs looks to turn things around. According to CEO CEO Yves Guillemot, the game's lead platform is PC, which means that the console versions--including the newly-announced PlayStation 4 iteration--will be ports of the PC title.
Ubisoft had hinted at a Wii U edition of open-world hack 'em up Watch Dogs before, but only formally confirmed it last night alongside the announcement of a PlayStation 4 version. No, obviously it didn't drop this news during Sony's big shindig, but in a press release afterwards.
Tonight at Sony's PlayStation 4 presentation, Ubisoft and Activision each took the stage to confirm their respective next-gen games for the system. Both Watch Dogs and Bungie's Destiny are coming to Sony's console.
Ever since we first saw Watch Dogs at Ubisoft's 2012 E3 press conference, rumors have been swirling that it's a next-gen console game. The developer has played it straight, confirming the game for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but it seems we could be in for a transitional release.
There's a lot to be excited for in 2013, and the Shacknews staff each have five games on their radar. The editorial team at Shacknews outlines their most anticipated games of 2013 individually, starting with staff writer and indie expert Jeff Mattas.
Watch Dogs stunned many when it made a surprise appearance at E3 this year. The ambitious third-person open-world shooter had some rather creative ideas--and it was quite the looker, to say the least. And although Ubisoft is still hiring for the game's development team, the French publisher is aiming to have the game ready by 2013.
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