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Watch Dogs dev diary boasts denser Chicago for PS4
Sure, the PS4 version of Watch Dogs will be prettier than the current-gen ports, but it'll also have a denser, busier city. Senior producer Dominic Guay promises "the same game experience, but basically magnified" on the PS4.
Watch Dogs unleashed in November
Ubisoft will launch city hacking action adventure Watch Dogs on November 19 and 22 in North America and UK, respectively. The cross-generation game will be available on all current-gen systems, PC, PS4 and "is also planned for other next generation consoles" (i.e. the next Xbox).The game will launch in the UK with four different editions. The Dedsec Edition (at select UK retailers) includes a 23cm figurine. The Vigilante Edition (at Game in UK, GameStop in Ireland) includes Aiden Pearce's cap and mask – yup, no way that could go wrong. The Uplay exclusive edition, available on Ubisoft's digital distribution network, will apparently send you a steelbook. Finally, the very unspecially named Special Edition (from Game in the UK) includes an extra single player mission.We'll update when we get word of North Americans bundles.%Gallery-187050%
Watch Dogs trailer shows us how to make money in the future
The most odd thing about this latest Watch Dogs trailer is that, if they know exactly how protagonist Aiden Pearce is stealing peoples' bank information, why can't they just stop him? Must be the trench coat.
Rumor: Watch Dogs designer leaves Ubisoft, heads back to EA
Jamie Keen, lead game designer on Ubisoft's upcoming open-world action game, Watch Dogs, is rumored to have left the company. According to his altered LinkedIn profile (pictured below), Keen has taken a new position with EA at Ghost Games, the Gothenburg, Sweden studio rumored to be working on a new entry in the Need for Speed series.Aside from his work on Watch Dogs, Keen also worked on Far Cry 3 as a writer while at Ubisoft Montreal. Before his time at Ubisoft, he did a stint at EA where he served as a producer on Battlefield: Bad Company.Ubisoft has not officially provided comment on the matter.
Ubisoft Reflections hires in-house social gaming veteran as MD
Ubisoft Reflections – the UK studio responsible for Far Cry 3, Driver: San Francisco, Just Dance 3 and currently working on Watch Dogs – has a new managing director, Pauline Jacquey. Jacquey began working at Ubisoft in 1997, across studios in Paris, Shanghai, Montreal and Pune. She most recently managed Ubisoft Pune, in India, and transitioned the entire studio to a complete focus on digital games; while at Ubisoft, Jacquey supported casual and social game departments.Ubisoft Reflections is collaborating with Montreal to develop Watch Dogs, confirmed for PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U and PS4 so far. Reflections also has a "number of soon-to-be-announced projects," Ubisoft says.
Watch Dogs box art has its hands full
Aiden, the main character of Ubisoft's Watch Dogs, looks a bit preoccupied on the game's cover. Is he contemplating what to order for dinner on his fancy cell phone? Why is he holding a gun? He's not planning on paying for his meal, is he?The game's box art is leaving us guessing, which is why we have higher-res versions to investigate in the gallery below, found on the official Watch Dogs North American and UK Facebook pages. The game is confirmed for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, PC and Wii U, and is expected to launch sometime in 2013. %Gallery-179606%
Ubisoft confirms Watch Dogs for Wii U
Following today's demo of Watch Dogs during the PlayStation event in NYC, Ubisoft fired off a press release for the game confirming it will launch on the PS4. But at the bottom of that press release, Ubisoft also confirms a Wii U version – something that was never officially confirmed.While Ubisoft confirmed a PS 4 version of the game today, Watch Dogs has also been confirmed for Xbox 360 and PS3. The game will also be available on the PC when it launches sometime in 2013.
Watch Dogs focuses in on PS4 [Update: Video with, without commentary]
Watch Dogs is coming to the PlayStation 4, Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot said at Sony's conference today. Ubisoft showed off a new, live demo for Watch Dogs that intended to make viewers feel like protagonist Aiden Pierce and "invade everyone's privacy," the game's creative director Jonathan Morin said. Watch that demo above.Watch Dogs looked like a next-gen game even way back, during its E3 2012 announcement.Update: Check out the Watch Dogs demo with commentary from Morin below.%Gallery-179444%
Rumor: Watch Dogs on 'all home consoles' this holiday
According to some leaked marketing materials, Watch Dogs is indeed a next-generation game – specifically, a game destined for "all home consoles." The marketing materials obtained by Kotaku and embedded past the break suggest that Watch Dogs will also be available during the holiday season later this year, which is in line with what we already know: a 2013 launch has always been the plan.Ubisoft has provided no official comment outside of confirming the game is definitely coming to Xbox 360 and PS3.
Guillemot: Watch Dogs dialed in for 2013
Watch Dogs, the futuristic, sci-fi bloodbath from Ubisoft, is scheduled to drop in 2013, CEO Yves Guillemot said during a financial call today."Watch Dogs will be coming next year," Guillemot said, in reference to the AAA titles Ubisoft has scheduled for 2013.Watch Dogs is a third-person, open-world action shooter that appears to take cues from Blade Runner, Grand Theft Auto and Daft Punk. Ubisoft hopes to get it on PS3 and Xbox 360 "for sure," though Wii U is still an option. Meanwhile, the PC version it showed off at E3 was certainly noteworthy.
Ubisoft Reflections hiring for Watch Dogs [update]
Are you a hacker, able to remotely ID people you see and change traffic lights at will? Then you're ... in Ubisoft's Watch Dogs. However, if you're not quite that adept, but still quite good with a computer, and you're in the UK, there's room for you on the team making Watch Dogs.Ubisoft Reflections general manager Giselle Stewart told Develop that the team is adding "over 40 permanent roles at our Newcastle office." Reflections is collaborating with Ubisoft Montreal to create the open world hacking/shooting game. "Our goal is to attract senior and experienced programmers, game designers and artists to work at Reflections, bringing our team to around 200 developers," Stewart said. Just one warning: you might end up working on Just Dance as well.Update: We've been informed the job openings for Watch Dogs are "worldwide."
Wink If You've Seen the Future
You're reading Reaction Time, a weekly column that claims to examine recent events, games and trends in the industry, but is really just looking for an excuse to use the word "zeitgeist." It debuts on Fridays in Engadget's digital magazine, Distro. E3 is always on the verge of devolving into a chaotic, inescapable din of competing mega-screens and marketing megaphones yelling over each other. Everyone is selling their own piece of the future. That's why, whether intentional or not, this year's show felt weirdly and stubbornly on message, as if a tacit agreement between every manufacturer and publisher ensured that nobody would step out of the here-and-now. If a gnawing absence of surprise and excitement pervaded the show, it's because everything we saw and discussed is expected to come out within the next twelve months.Ubisoft was willing to venture much further into the future, surprising attendees of its own press conference with a snippet of Watch Dogs, a game that seemed too good to be true amongst E3's barrage of solid sequels. Here was a new intellectual property, with a serious and topical premise, and graphics too sophisticated to be running on a console from 2005. It's okay to talk about the next generation, apparently, as long as you don't explicitly call it that.
Ubisoft registers various movie-oriented Watch Dogs domains
The Hollywood rumor mill overflowed into our own yesterday when Deadline reported that Ubisoft is in talks with Paramount and Warner Bros. over the possibility of a Splinter Cell movie. Now it seems that may not be the only film franchise the French publisher is considering, as a cache of Watch Dogs movie URLs have been uncovered by the domain sleuths at Fusible.All registered by Ubisoft, the domain names in question (WatchDogsmovie.com, WatchDogsthemovie.com, Watch-Dogsmovie.com, Watch-Dogsthemovie.com) seem to indicate that the possibility of a Watch Dogs film has crossed Ubisoft's hive mind, or at the very least that it wants to guard against potential domain squatters should a movie ever enter production in the future.
Watch Dogs coming to Xbox 360 and PS3 'for sure,' producer says
Ubisoft Montreal producer Dominic Guay feels flattered by the whispers of suspicion surrounding Watch Dogs, a new third-person, open-world action game from Ubisoft. After an impressive debut at Ubisoft's E3 2012 press conference, Watch Dogs left viewers questioning whether its sophisticated environments and lighting (among other things) are a realistic match for current consoles. The official line is that it's coming to PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.Speaking to Joystiq, Guay confirmed that the E3 demo is running on PC, but emphasized that Ubisoft Montreal is interested in getting Watch Dogs on "all the platforms we can." That means Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions "for sure," Guay said. A Wii U version is still up in the air.It's easy to imagine Ubisoft releasing a scaled-down, optimized version of Watch Dogs, positioned to take advantage of the large, established audience on current consoles. It's even easier to envision the futuristic property popping up in Ubisoft's typical barrage of launch games for a new system. Both scenarios could play out by the time Watch Dogs ships, sometime after 2012.
Relive the awkward banter between Aisha Tyler and Toby Turner from Ubisoft's E3 2012 press conference
While we did our best to hammer out all of the news from Ubisoft's E3 2012 press conference (how about that Watch Dogs?), it's not quite the same as being there – you didn't get to witness the awkward banter between Aisha Tyler and Toby Turner. Now you can watch that awkwardness firsthand for yourself!
The electronic cube-head waiter in Watch Dogs gave us this link
In the Watch Dogs trailer Ubisoft showed at its E3 press conference, a waiter with a cube TV head in the background flashed us a QR code, which sent us to this link to a dotconnecxion page. dotconnecxion appears to be a "digital art movement" that exists in the Watch Dogs universe, and, with this website, perhaps our own.[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]
