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Watch Dogs is getting a movie, and it might actually be goodMar 8, 2024 - PCGamesNThe tides have turned in the cultural consensus on videogame adaptations, thanks to the success of The Last of Us, Sonic movies, and more well-received live-action projects in recent years. This might be good news for Watch Dogs, which is lined up to receive the big-screen treatment. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: A big new Watch Dogs mod makes Chicago a more dynamic place You can get Watch Dogs free - and the promotion works now Watch the worst downgrades in PC gaming history Watch Dogs 2 Tumblr – Sitara’s DedSec Hackerspace – Roundup 2Aug 22, 2016 - Community Announcementshttp://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25289044/b95a38a2f0b0548723231f34b40b5e3abfb75e5b.jpg When we last checked Sitara’s Tumblr, she’d been kicking around some new art concepts for the DedSec revolution. This month, she shares more about her background – where she came from, and where she’s going. In case you missed last month’s content, read it here. In her first post, Sitara’s got some thoughts on the melding of marketing and manipulation: http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25289044/b872eb1c5e12a4bdbc79924ef4de573e1fcec420.png I know what marketing is. Everybody’s got something to sell, that’s life. But some of these “tech giants”, these hulking, bloated conglomerates? All they’re selling is a lie, and everybody’s stepping all over each other to buy in. Don’t do it. Open your eyes and you’ll be surprised what you see. Recently I tried my hand at a take on Blume’s bullsh*t. Too on-the-nose? Maybe. If you’ve got something better, give it a try. You can download the Blume logo here and remix it to your little heart’s content. Show me your rebellious side. This next post features a throwback to one of Sitara’s earlier works from last month: http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25289044/7f0c6d615b6e8bfa17741745a961f6325b47f17b.png The finished piece from last month. What do you think? Any of you working on a piece of DedSec art right now? I think these will add to your final masterpiece ;) In her next post, Sitara talks about why she left Los Angeles for San Francisco: http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25289044/e9688410ac3d00684f9bf4bb9927e3ae0b305f98.png Leaving L.A. I used to live in LA. Didn’t know that, did ya? I’m an Angelina, born and bred. But then I moved north, to the San Fran Bay Area. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot to love about LA. The real LA, not Hollywood. But I was looking for my people. Other geeks who cared more about the latest open source software to hit the hacker nodes than about the latest workout routine for a flat stomach. And yeah, I found that. I found friends, allies, brothers and sisters-in-arms. But I also found CEOs who found start-ups claiming that it’s all about the freedom to invent, but really, it’s just so they can sell them to bigger companies and get a dumptruck full of money. I found brogrammers driving artists out of their lofts because they could pay more. That one’s completely ironic. You have these kids fresh out of college, getting jobs that pay them $60k minimum as a starting wage, who want to live in “authentic SF” where the artists live. But the artists don’t live there anymore. They can’t afford to. Because these kids are pushing them out. I found tech giants greasing politicians’ palms for tax breaks and turning their heads the other way. There’s a lot of good in the Bay Area, which is what makes it so infuriating watching all this shit happen. But then, that’s what D...Watch Dogs 2 Tumblr – Sitara’s DedSec Hackerspace – Roundup 2Aug 22, 2016 - Community Announcementshttp://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25289044/b95a38a2f0b0548723231f34b40b5e3abfb75e5b.jpg When we last checked Sitara’s Tumblr, she’d been kicking around some new art concepts for the DedSec revolution. This month, she shares more about her background – where she came from, and where she’s going. In case you missed last month’s content, read it here. In her first post, Sitara’s got some thoughts on the melding of marketing and manipulation: http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25289044/b872eb1c5e12a4bdbc79924ef4de573e1fcec420.png I know what marketing is. Everybody’s got something to sell, that’s life. But some of these “tech giants”, these hulking, bloated conglomerates? All they’re selling is a lie, and everybody’s stepping all over each other to buy in. Don’t do it. Open your eyes and you’ll be surprised what you see. Recently I tried my hand at a take on Blume’s bullsh*t. Too on-the-nose? Maybe. If you’ve got something better, give it a try. You can download the Blume logo here and remix it to your little heart’s content. Show me your rebellious side. This next post features a throwback to one of Sitara’s earlier works from last month: http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25289044/7f0c6d615b6e8bfa17741745a961f6325b47f17b.png The finished piece from last month. What do you think? Any of you working on a piece of DedSec art right now? I think these will add to your final masterpiece ;) In her next post, Sitara talks about why she left Los Angeles for San Francisco: http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25289044/e9688410ac3d00684f9bf4bb9927e3ae0b305f98.png Leaving L.A. I used to live in LA. Didn’t know that, did ya? I’m an Angelina, born and bred. But then I moved north, to the San Fran Bay Area. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot to love about LA. The real LA, not Hollywood. But I was looking for my people. Other geeks who cared more about the latest open source software to hit the hacker nodes than about the latest workout routine for a flat stomach. And yeah, I found that. I found friends, allies, brothers and sisters-in-arms. But I also found CEOs who found start-ups claiming that it’s all about the freedom to invent, but really, it’s just so they can sell them to bigger companies and get a dumptruck full of money. I found brogrammers driving artists out of their lofts because they could pay more. That one’s completely ironic. You have these kids fresh out of college, getting jobs that pay them $60k minimum as a starting wage, who want to live in “authentic SF” where the artists live. But the artists don’t live there anymore. They can’t afford to. Because these kids are pushing them out. I found tech giants greasing politicians’ palms for tax breaks and turning their heads the other way. There’s a lot of good in the Bay Area, which is what makes it so infuriating watching all this shit happen. But then, that’s what D...Midweek Madness - Watch_Dogs , up to 70% OffJun 7, 2016 - AnnouncementSave up to 70% on Watch_Dogs™ during this week's Midweek Madness*! You play as Aiden Pearce, a brilliant hacker and former thug, whose criminal past led to a violent family tragedy. Now on the hunt for those who hurt your family, you'll be able to monitor and hack all who surround you by manipulating everything connected to the city’s network. Access omnipresent security cameras, download personal information to locate a target, control traffic lights and public transportation to stop the enemy and more. *Offer ends Friday at 10 AM Pacific Time Ubisoft s Annual Uplay Spring Sale Now OnApr 15, 2016 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunMy calendar tells me we’re now over halfway through April. The Met Office tells me astronomical spring in the northern hemisphere started on March 20. Yet the weatherman told me yesterday that I can expect highs of a whopping nine degrees centigrade here in Glasgow this weekend. I’d swear it was still winter had the annual Uplay Spring Sale not kicked off this week, with big discounts on the likes of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Rainbow Six Siege and Far Cry 4, among others. Which others, you say? Find out after the drop. … Watch Dogs 2 Will Launch Before April 2017Feb 11, 2016 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunWatch Dogs 2 will launch before April 2017. We know because Ubisoft just said that the game would be out before the end of its current financial year as part of their third-quarter financial report. And for now, that’s all we know. … Have You Played Watch_Dogs?Nov 30, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunHave You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. I’d forgive you if you haven’t. My review of Watch underscore Dogs found plenty of reasons to criticise the game, from its action to its mission and level design and its piss poor characters. But then I kept playing it, because the multiplayer was really good. … Midweek Madness - Watch_Dogs up to 66% OffJul 28, 2015 - AnnouncementSave up to 66% on Watch_Dogs™ during this week's Midweek Madness*! All it takes is the swipe of a finger. We connect with friends. We buy the latest gadgets and gear. We find out what’s happening in the world. But with that same simple swipe, we cast an increasingly expansive shadow. With each connection, we leave a digital trail that tracks our every move and milestone, our every like and dislike. And it’s not just people. Today, all major cities are networked. Urban infrastructures are monitored and controlled by complex operating systems. In Watch_Dogs, this system is called the Central Operating System (CTOS) – and it controls almost every piece of the city’s technology and holds key information on all of the city’s residents. *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time Watch This Space: Watch Dogs 2 May Be In The WorksMay 2, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunIn news that surprises exactly no one, a sequel to Watch Dogs appears to be in the works. This comes according to some poor guy’s LinkedIn page that’s been sniffed out by VideoGamer.com. Julien Risse is a senior gameplay designer at Ubisoft, whose past credits include the original Watch Dogs and its DLC Bad Blood, but the stand out oddity is his mention of an unannounced sequel for the series. He’s since deleted it from his credits but it lives on forever in screencap form. Somewhere, with knuckles between teeth, Julien Risse silently screams. … The Steam Exploration Sale Starts Now!Nov 26, 2014 - AnnouncementThe Steam Exploration Sale is here! For the next six days, take advantage of huge savings throughout the Steam store on thousands of titles. Plus, discover new and recommended games on your personalized Exploration Sale page here. Check back each day for new Daily Deals. Today’s Featured Deals Include: * Watchdogs - 50% off; * Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - 50% off; * The Evil Within - 66% off; * Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth - 30% off; * Lords of the Fallen - 40% off; * Goat Simulator - 50% off; * The Long Dark - 50% off; * Don’t Starve - 75% off; * Company of Heroes 2 - 75% off; The Steam Exploration Sale runs from now until 10AM Pacific Time, December 2nd. Complete information on Daily Deals and other special offers can be found on Steam. Weekend Deal - Watch_Dogs , 40% OffOct 30, 2014 - AnnouncementSave 40% on Watch_Dogs™ as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! Watch_Dogs takes place in a fully simulated living city where, using your smartphone, you have real-time control over the city’s infrastructure. Trap your enemy in a 30-car pileup by manipulating the traffic lights. Stop a train, and then board it to evade the authorities. Narrowly escape capture by quickly raising a drawbridge. Anything connected to the city’s Central Operating System (CTOS) can become your weapon. *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time New DLC Available - Watch_Dogs - Bad BloodSep 30, 2014 - Product ReleaseWatch_Dogs - Bad Blood, all new content for Watch_Dogs™ is Now Available on Steam! Revisit Chicago in a brand new Watch_Dogs adventure! Play as T-Bone Grady, the legendary and eccentric hacker and Aiden Pearce's trusted comrade. Now on the run from Blume, T-Bone only has two choices: flee and start a new life elsewhere, or fight Blume to save an old friend. Face your shady past on your road to redemption. Watch Dogs’ Bad Blood DLC is now available to season pass holders, here’s the launch trailerSep 24, 2014 - PC Gamer There's an especially great scene in Watch Dogs where . The character you're shooting alongside, Raymond 'T-Bone' Kenny, is the main character in this first DLC drop for Watch Dogs. If you thought Aiden Pearce lacked character, then T-Bone should make up for it. Entitled Bad Blood, the new campaign follows T-Bone's exploits about halfway through the regular campaign, when he's called upon by former Blume employee Tobias Frewer to get him out of a tight fix. Well, good news: if you're a Season Pass holder that pack is available to download right now, though everyone else will need to wait until September 30. Bad Blood's campaign content will be complimented with a bunch of other new stuff, including new cooperative 'Street Sweep' contracts. Meanwhile, the Hacking and Tailing online modes are now playable as T-Bone. All this, alongside new weapons, perks, outfits and a remote-controlled car called 'Eugene'. Check out the launch trailer below. Ubisoft explains why Watch Dogs is a lot like the first Assassin’s CreedSep 22, 2014 - PC Gamer The original Assassin's Creed was a beautiful world in search of a game to occupy it. (When a large proportion of your mission design involves sitting on benches, you've got a variety problem.) Second time around Ubisoft made good on the premise with the brilliant Assassin's Creed 2, Brotherhood, and the company expects Watch Dogs to follow a similar pattern. In an interview with our friends over at CVG, Ubisoft Montreal vice president of creative Lionel Raynaud called the cyber vigilantism game "a brand and promise" for the future. "The reception has actually been pretty close to Assassin's Creed ," he noted, "with the first one we didn't have such a good reception, and it was fair." Raynaud also admitted that there were problems with Watch Dogs' replayability, and that it was easy to spot that it was a first iteration. He also made the point that while Ubisoft always knew that Assassin's Creed had potential, it didn't know it would become the mammoth franchise that it is today. "It's the same thing with Watch Dogs: it was difficult to do everything at the right level, which is why we took more time," he said. "The time we took was definitely useful it allowed us to release the game without compromises and do everything that we wanted. We also kept parts of the game we felt didn't fit with the original for the sequel." That sequel is already in the works, as Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot revealed just weeks after Watch Dogs launched. Raynaud confirmed that the sequel will not only try to make good on the promise of the core idea, as the Assassin's Creed series eventually did, but also live up to that first impressive demo of the game we saw at E3 2012. That's likely to be quite a way off, though. If you don't want to wait, the final release of TheWorse Mod enables many of the visuals effects presented in the E3 2012 demo that were cut from the final release.Five hours with the upcoming Watch Dogs expansion, Bad BloodSep 15, 2014 - PC Gamer Haven t you caused enough damage? Near-future Chicago is a city under secret siege, not from human traffickers, petty thugs, and gangbangers, but from you and your smartphone. The stop lights are broken, the vending machines depleted, the public s knees permanently scrapped from stooping to grab the cash you sent flying out of malfunctioning ATMs, and no one stands near vents. Isn t it time to put the phone down? Not according to Watch Dogs first expansion, Bad Blood. Ahead of its September 23 release, I played the first four of ten campaign missions, as well as a handful of side activities and some online co-op. The story takes off directly after the conclusion of Watch Dogs. With Aiden Pearce s journey wrapped, you play his dreadlocked hacker ally Raymond T-Bone Kenney, a man fond of septum piercings, bowling shirts, and booze. This software engineer once worked for Blume, that shadowy corp behind ctOS the Central Operating System that powers Chicago s infrastructure and runs everything from road signs to data records.In fact, T-Bone wrote the base encryption code for that operating system. After sensing how dangerous it is to give control of an entire city to a few technologically literate people, he fled the company, but not before causing the infamous 2003 North East Blackout to make his point, a blackout that inadvertently killed eleven people. Now living off the grid, wracked with guilt, and looking to take down Blume, T-Bone is the most dangerous person in Chicago. Which isn t good for Chicago. We first meet T-Bone conducting an illegal terminal intrusion in the heart of Blume s central offices. Two guards apprehend him, but T-Bone plays bait and switch, casually insisting he s been sent by Blume to check on network integrity before pretending to talk on his phone. Unwritten rules of social politeness stress that you must never interrupt a phone conversation, so the guards wait, biting their tongues and scratching their heads. Cue T-Bone turning around and smashing their faces with a wrench and taser, his two new melee weapons. But he s not out of danger yet; now comes the escape. Blume security know there s an intruder in the building, but fortunately for you, they don t know where. Using familiar tricks of whipping out my phone and hacking into cameras, I get a bead on patrols. I hack a device in a side room to make a noise and attract a guard, then shut the doors to lock him in. Then I sneak behind another and taser him before exploding a panel beneath the last man s feet. For those who ve played Watch Dogs, it s a familiar pattern. Stepping into the cold Chicago night, enforcers are waiting. Snipers on skyscrapers sweep glowing red lasers across my path, so I duck between cover points until I reach the main road. It s chase time. As I make my getaway on a motorbike, two heavy duty cars with tinted windows careen after me. There are two ways to lose my tail: kill them or escape the search radius. Seeing as I ve only got a pistol, I d...Watch Dogs: Bad Blood DLC tells the story of T-BoneSep 3, 2014 - PC Gamer The upcoming Watch Dogs DLC Bad Blood will put players in the shoes of T-Bone Grady, the legendary hacker and trusted companion of Aiden Pearce, who risks his safety to help out an old friend but soon realizes that there's more to his story than meets the eye. Bad Blood will introduce a new story campaign that takes place shortly after the events of Watch Dogs, with ten new missions set in new locations scattered throughout Chicago. It will also a new system of side missions known as "Street Sweep" contracts, offering "endless hours of challenges" that can be played solo or in co-op mode. The "Hacking" and "Tailing" modes, and the ctOS Companion App, will also be playable as T-Bone. On top of the new missions and gameplay mode, Bad Blood will also add new weapons, perks and outfits, including the remote-controlled car Eugene, which can be upgraded with both offensive and defensive perks. The Watch Dogs Bad Blood DLC will be released to the public on September 30, but will go out to season pass holders one week earlier, on September 23. Full details are up now on the official Watch Dogs website.You can now hack CCTV cameras in Grand Theft Auto IV, thanks to this Watch Dogs modAug 31, 2014 - PC Gamer That's the problem with Grand Theft Auto IV: you can't hack, you can't ride on the roof of trains and you can't use nuclear weaponry. The latter isn't likely to change any time soon, but two clever GTA IV modders have managed to add a lot of the functionality of Watch Dogs into the six-year old game. The mod, which is available right now, covers Nico Belic in Aiden Pearce's trademark trenchcoat and even shares the same hands-in-pockets idle animation. You'll be able to hack payphones, ATMs, ticket machines, wall lights, trains, traffic lights, road blocks, cameras, drink machines and parked cars. It also introduces the ability to shoot witnesses to your crimes. Of course, you could choose to stick with the originals instead: Watch Dogs is reportedly getting a whole new city via DLC, while Grand Theft Auto V releases later this year for PC. Here's a video of the mod in action: Watch Dogs update makes drinking easier and hacking your friends possibleAug 25, 2014 - PC Gamer One of the more amusing controversies to emerge after the release of Watch Dogs concerned its drinking mini-game. Dedicated players were outraged that drinking in Watch Dogs was too hard, and they were right: if you wanted to play the mini-game past the point required by the main campaign, it did get very bloody hard. Never mind though, because the newest Watch Dogs update makes the uniquely annoying mini-game much easier, for those among you still determined to master virtual drinking. There are more changes introduced by the patch: you can now reset Gang Hideouts and Criminal Convoy missions, in much the same way you can Outposts in Far Cry 3. You can now choose to hack friends in multiplayer, while CTOS multiplayer matches will no longer cease if the player controlling via a mobile device drops out. Relatedly, players in the habit of disconnecting from multiplayer matches halfway through will be matched with other guilty players, creating a virtual troll hell. "If you re playing against someone else who disconnects unfairly, you will get the same amount of Notoriety as if you had won at that moment," the patch notes read. "The disconnector will not receive any Notoriety." Full notes can be read on the Ubisoft website.Ubisoft teases a new city for Watch Dogs DLC, says it’s coming this fallJul 30, 2014 - PC Gamer It looks like Watch Dogs may leave the Windy City behind when its first DLC release comes out this fall. The official Twitter account recently teased a move to the green fields and blue skies of Camden, New Jersey, and then confirmed that new content is on the way. "Our data indicates surveillance has become more prominent in high-crime areas_," it tweeted earlier this week. An image accompanying the tweet added, "The city of Camden, New Jersey had the highest crime rate in the US in 2012. A 24/7 surveillance program is now in effect_" @FatalRift Coming this Fall!— Watch Dogs (@watchdogsgame) July 28, 2014 That's not actually true, according to Forbes, which doesn't even list it in the top ten, but that's not the point, either. The point is that it appears the game will hit the road at some point over the next few months, a timeline confirmed in response to a question about whether the tweet was teasing DLC. "Coming this Fall!" it tweeted. Ubisoft hasn't officially announced that the DLC will go to Camden, but it's hardly the most subtle tease I've ever seen. Who's ready to go to New Jersey?New Watch Dogs patch addresses stuttering problems and other issuesJul 29, 2014 - PC Gamer Ubisoft has released another update for the PC version of Watch Dogs that should "reduce" stuttering during gameplay, particularly at higher texture settings, and promised that more such fixes are still in the works. Watch Dogs has suffered from visual stutters of varying intensity since the day it launched, even on high-end video cards. Today's update should address the problem, at least in part, although Ubisoft warned that "some players might still experience some stuttering while playing with 'Ultra Textures' settings on." "We optimized some of the performance issues that were causing some users to experience high amounts of stuttering while playing Watch_Dogs. Instances of stuttering during gameplay should now be reduced, especially when using 'High Textures'," Ubisoft Community Manager Nik_CtOS wrote. "We ll keep updating you as more fixes for stuttering are currently being worked on." The update also improves NAT-type error messages, improves support for PCs with multiple network interfaces and fixes a few specific gameplay bugs and crashes. Based on the response to the post, not everyone is having success with the patch, but some users are reporting significant improvements. The one consistency seems to be, as Ubisoft indicated, that the improvement is most pronounced when using "high" texture settings, while "Ultra" textures seem to be only marginally influenced. Disappointing for gamers with bleeding-edge video cards, perhaps, but it's a start.

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