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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 ge...

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.

Tralier: Gameplay:     Description In Watch Dogs, players uncover a conspiracy using information and control of a city's infrastructure as a weapon. MSRP N/A Developer Ubisoft Montreal Release Date N/A Publisher Ubisoft Genre Action Rating N/A We will update as we get more info!!

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 pop...

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!

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.