Hacker hero video game 'Watch Dogs' to be let loose

2014/05/27 11:52:46 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

Hacker-themed video game & quot;Watch Dogs & quot; makes its hotly anticipated debut on Tuesday in a world grappling with real-life fears about privacy in the Internet era. France-based Ubisoft & #039;s new title features a protagonist who controls the world around him by hacking into systems and has generated intense buzz for eerie parallels with the storm about US surveillance. But in & quot;Watch Dogs & quot;, the player-controlled antihero can access everything from the cellphone conversations and medical records of passers-by to computers which control traffic lights, to advance through the game. & quot;We knew we had a relevant topic, & quot; Canadian Ubisoft developer Dominic Guay told AFP as the game was previewed at the E3 video game trade show last year.
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