- Ubisoft's grudging crawlback to Steam continues with achievements for Watch Dogs 2 added a mere 9 years after release - 6 February 2025
Ubisoft is currently engaged in what we Brits would call a reverse-ferret: After years of releasing its games exclusively on the Epic Store, the publisher has returned to distributing them on Steam . The first game to mark a return to day one releases will be Assassin's Creed Shadows on March 20, even if Ubisoft is still trying to make you sync-up your Steam account to a Ubisoft Connect one. It just can't quite let go!.. Read more.
- Ubisoft finally adds Watch Dogs 2 Steam achievements as rollout continues - 6 February 2025
Following in the footsteps of the Assassin's Creed and Far Cry series, one of Ubisoft's greatest open-world games now has another reason to come back. Watch Dogs 2 Steam achievements have been missing for a long time, but now the publisher has finally introduced the feature to its stylish cybercrime sequel. In even better news, you won't need to replay the whole game if you've already fulfilled the requirements previously. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Classic Ubisoft open-world game blows up on Steam thanks to big sale Hang on: Watch Dogs 2 is actually kind of brilliant PSA: This is your last chance to claim Watch Dogs 2 free
- Achievements Unlocked for Watch Dogs 2 - 5 February 2025
Attention Dedsec, We are pleased to announce that Steam Achievements are now available for Watch Dogs 2! As a heads up, achievements will be retroactively earned for the accomplishments already completed in your game. For the sync to happen you need to launch the game once, and the previously unlocked Ubisoft Connect achievements will be automatically unlocked on Steam. Keep your eyes peeled, Hackers!
- The Watch Dogs movie has wrapped up filming more than 10 years after it was first announced, which I'm assuming means it's a guaranteed best picture winner - 15 September 2024
It turns out the Watch Dogs movie is in production, and in fact has already wrapped on filming. Much like the Minecraft movie and the Borderlands movie, the Watch Dogs movie has been in the works for about a decade now, though unlike the Minecraft movie which finally received a trailer last week , and the Borderlands movie which was released last week (and was so abysmal that it got a digital release only three weeks after it came out in cinemas ), we haven't seen all that much of the Ubisoft adaptation. In fact, we haven't really seen anything, though there were a couple of pieces of casting news earlier this year, as well as one bit this week . With that came a tweet from Ubisoft confirming that uh, filming has been completely finished on the film adaptation of Watch Dogs, though I somehow seem to have missed the fact production had started at all. I guess that's what happens when Ubi…
- Classic Ubisoft open-world game blows up on Steam thanks to big sale - 16 May 2024
Oh, The Division Heartland , we hardly knew ye. A spin-off from the main multiplayer looter shooter series, Ubisoft has just canceled Heartland to refocus on the upcoming XDefiant and the Rainbow Six series. Nevertheless, an open-world classic from the Assassin's Creed and Far Cry studio is currently surging on Steam, eight years since it was first launched. Witty, satirical, and full of creative opportunities for mayhem, it's also available at its lowest price ever. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Hang on: Watch Dogs 2 is actually kind of brilliant PSA: This is your last chance to claim Watch Dogs 2 free Get Watch Dogs 2 free for watching Ubisoft's E3 event Sunday
- A decade later, they’re still trying to make a Watch Dogs movie - but now it has a director, writer and star - 8 March 2024
Remember when Ubisoft announced they were working on a movie adaptation of hacking series Watch Dogs , before it was even released? I sure didn’t! Well, allow us both to be reminded of something from over a decade ago, because the Watch Dogs film is still apparently A Thing. It’s more of A Thing now, too, because it has actual names attached rather than just a corporation’s vague “excitement” about licensing out its IP. Read more
- Game Pass added Watch Dogs 2, Ubisoft's fun open-world Hackers homage - 21 July 2022
Ubisoft's campy cybercrime-o-rama Watch Dogs 2 arrived on Game Pass this week, and it's worth a look. I've been playing Watch Dogs 2 lately myself, by coincidence, and I am enjoying its gang of goofballs who want to stick it to The Man by hacking the planet and forcing people to watch their meme videos. Good camp fun with a nice group of friends. Read more
- As Dusk Falls, Inside, the best Watch Dogs game and more coming to Xbox Game Pass soon - 18 July 2022
It's the middle of the month, just about, which means a fresh wave of Xbox Game Pass games, this time around including the best Watch Dogs . A smaller crop than the batch of games that dropped on Game Pass in the first half of the month, but we've got a good mix of small and big titles to choose from (via Xbox Wire ). The first set of games for the latter half of July will arrive tomorrow, July 19, which is where you can get stuck in with some interactive drama, and some stylish hacking. First off is As Dusk Falls , which is a day one release on Game Pass. This one comes from developer Interior/ Night that "explores the entangled lives of two families across thirty years," and will be available on cloud, console, and PC. It got shown off at last month's Xbox Games Showcase , and in it you'll make choices that can have big impacts on the character's lives. Read more
- Far Cry 3 creative director leaves Ubisoft after almost two decades at the company - 17 April 2022
Long standing senior developer at Ubisoft Patrick Plourde has left the company after almost 20 years. Plourde announced earlier this week (April 13) that he would be leaving Ubisoft after working at the studio for almost two decades, and has set up an independent creative consultancy. In a tweet on his personal Twitter account, Plourde referenced the various games he's worked on such as Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry 3, Watch Dogs 2 , and Child of Light , saying "it's been a privilege to collaborate with everyone at Ubi on these great games! Now, I'm happy to share that I'm starting my own independent creative consultancy, where I will keep working with Ubisoft and also spend time on some personal projects. The now ex-Ubisoft developer also provided a statement to Axios (via VGC ) saying that he will "have a position outside a traditional structure (with manda…
- Have You Played… Watch Dogs 2? - 30 October 2020
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. I won’t dignify the underscore that is in the official title. Watch Dogs 2 may not have an iconic cap, but you know what it does have? An iconic mask. (more…)
- Watch Dogs 2 review - brazenly silly - 18 September 2020
Want to know how many dudes I killed in Watch Dogs 2? Two. No, not two hundred. I mean two, as in the one between one and three. Marcus Holloway's San Francisco-set sandbox elegantly bypasses that old chestnut of ludonarrative dissonance - a phrase fittingly first coined by a former Ubisoft creative director - by giving your goofy hacker the ability to go through the entire game non-lethally. Hooray for videogame pacifism! This seems like a small detail. It's actually a crucially smart design decision; one which encourages you to experiment with Watch Dog 2's delightfully manipulative gadgets. In turn, you embrace a far more thoughtful style of play than you could achieve by simply shooting men with the game's underwhelming guns. Messing with people's phones, bank accounts or emails is often more effective than brute-forcing your way through missions with a grenade launcher. And hey, it…
- Hang on: Watch Dogs 2 is actually kind of brilliant - 18 September 2020
At a glance, there's only a thin line that separates Watch Dogs 2 from GTA. A thin white line, extruding from the phone perpetually in your hand, that hops between potential hacking targets - traffic lights, SUVs, manhole covers, voicemails - with an eagerness that borders on impatience. It's a roaming cursor that represents an invisible layer of interaction GTA doesn't have, encouraging you to stick your finger in Ubisoft Montreal's simulation and give it an experimental waggle. The trickster god in the machine. You'll have seen that same line drawn all over Ubisoft's promotional shots, zigzagging across those first images until they resembled geometric puzzles. But, to some degree, that promotional campaign was in vain. Watch Dogs 2 sold a fraction of the copies its predecessor did at launch, and it didn't come as a total surprise. In the months before release, we'd noted alarmingly l…
- PSA: This is your last chance to claim Watch Dogs 2 free - 15 July 2020
July 15, 2020 Claim your free Watch Dogs 2 before time runs out. Last week, Ubisoft announced that anyone who watched Ubisoft Forward would receive a free copy of Watch Dogs 2 - but the way that worked was that you'd have to log in to Uplay and watch it there. Unfortunately, that didn't work for many players during the 45-minute presentation, meaning few were able to qualify for the free game. The good news is that Ubisoft is going to make sure everyone gets a copy anyway - but you're going to need to be quick about it. You can head on over to the promo page to claim your free copy of Watch Dogs 2 by signing into Uplay. This is open to everyone, whether you watched Ubisoft Forward or not, but the promotion ends today, July 15 at 23:59 PDT. (That's midnight, or 2:59 EDT / 7:59 BST on July 16.) It's worth noting that many players still have not received access to their copies of Watch Dog…
- Ubisoft's server issues won't stop the Watch Dogs 2 giveaway - 12 July 2020
Update: Anyone with an Ubi account can now sign up for a free copy over here . Ubisoft’s offer of Watch Dogs 2 for free if you watched today’s Ubisoft Forward stream today was meant to be a tempting little sweetener, but things broke. The servers seemingly overloaded, meaning that not only were many unable to sign into their Ubi accounts and become eligible for the giveaway, some people are complaining all the failed attempts got their accounts automatically disabled. Welp. Sounds like it’ll take some fixing, but Ubisoft have at least said people who couldn’t log in will get the freebie. (more…)
- You can grab Watch Dogs 2 free during Ubisoft Forward on July 12 - 6 July 2020
Ubisoft’s big not-E3 showcase is scheduled for this Sunday, July 12th where they’ll be showing off new gameplay and trailers for upcoming games. As part of the event, they’re also letting you claim a free copy of Watch Dogs 2 for PC, though you’ll have to be fast. You need to grab it while the show’s live, meaning you’ll have about a 45 minute window to make those dogs yours. (more…)
- PC gaming's best US cities - 4 July 2019
Happy July 4 to all our friends in the USA! Today the UK team loosely tries to join in with a story about the Independence Day game that time forgot , and this celebration of the best US cities in PC gaming. We're lucky enough to have visited a lot of the cities on the list, and it's always a surreal experience to compare reality to a virtual interpretation. These games capture something special about the places they model. It's not just about getting all the landmarks in, the best cities use light, weather and sound to create a distinct mood. Sometimes the shooting and driving feels secondary to the experience of wandering the streets, soaking up the atmosphere. Washington DC, The Division 2 It's odd to walk around a virtual city you've also visited in real life. The layout of the city has to be changed to fit the mechanics (cover everywhere!), but there are su…
- Watch Dogs 2, Ghost Recon Wildlands, and Far Cry Primal are $5 each on the Epic Games Store - 7 June 2019
The Epic Games Store has its fair share of critics, and there are some good reasons to be critical—its half-assed search functionality, for instance, or the inability to easily pull full-res screenshots from store pages. But it also offers some pretty spectacular prices at times, including at this moment a trio of big-name games from Ubisoft— Far Cry Primal , Ghost Recon Wildlands , and Watch Dogs 2 —that you can pick up for just $5 each.  Each of the games is on sale for $15, which is a good deal on its own. But Epic is slicing another $10 off the top of every game in its ongoing Mega Sale priced $14.99 or higher, so those $15 games end up a fiver—three for the price of one, basically. And when you compare that to the regular price points—$50 for Far Cry and Wildlands, $60 for Watch Dogs 2—you very suddenly find yourself deep in "screamin&…
- Steam Charts: Some Things Old, Some Things New Edition - 3 June 2019
Good hello. Please, grab hold and sit, for this is some Steam Charts. (more…)
- The sci-fi game Ubisoft teased in Watch Dogs 2 has apparently been cancelled - 16 January 2019
Remember a couple of years ago, when a trailer for a fake game that appeared in Watch Dogs 2 turned out—maybe, according to sources—to be a real project called Pioneer ? It looks like that report may have been accurate, because now it appears that the whole thing has been cancelled.  Hutchinson is in a position to know: Prior to co-founding Typhoon Studios in 2017, Hutchinson was the creative director of Far Cry 4 and Assassin's Creed 3. And while he didn't come out and say explicitly that the project had been cancelled, he did have this to say when asked about it specifically: Jonathan Cooper, the animation art director on Asasssin's Creed 3, also chimed in: It's worth emphasizing that this is all purely speculative, not just because of the nature of the tweets, but because Pioneer was never actually confirmed to exist in the first place. It'…
- Amazon Prime Day 2018: Best deals on PC games and hardware - 17 July 2018
This year’s Amazon Prime Day is almost at an end. At midnight tonight, Amazon’s big day o’ deals will be over for another year (or, you know, until Black Friday in November), so if you had a look at the deals yesterday and thought, ‘Hmm… I could do with a new SSD or graphics card’, then you’ve still got time to pick one up. I know Amazon is evil etc, but just in case you do fancy picking up a bargain, I’ve put together a list of all the best of the best PC Prime Day deals right here, covering hardware and games alike. Happy hunting. (more…)
