Ubisoft CEO rides on a post-E3 high (interview)

Yves Guillemot says common engines, new IP, and innovation in gameplay will drive next-generation growth.

The vigilante tragedy: How Watch Dogs modernizes Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’

The creative director behind Ubisoft's hotly anticipated open-world, cyberpunk action tale drops a few details around his anti-hero's motivations and talks about the questions he wants Watch Dogs to prompt.

In Watch Dogs, your friends can hack your character in the single-player game (multiplayer preview)

Your friends can come into your game, hack your character, and steal your data.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot sees big opportunity in the console transition (interview)

Ubisoft CEO believes good properties -- the games -- are the key to lengevity in the game business.

Fresh Watch Dogs trailer appears online a day before Ubisoft’s pre-E3 briefing

Watch Dogs CGI E3 trailer leaks and show the game's hero using technology and guns to solve his problems.

ROUNDTABLE’D! Game characters red-ring the Xbox One!

It's the best thing since the invention of trees -- the Xbox One! But its immaculate perfection won't stop our panel of iconic game characters from ripping it an even bigger One.

Watch Dogs’ lead writer talks anti-heroes in the hackable city

Kevin Shortt, the man behind Watch Dogs' narrative, discusses the art of keeping secrets, the thrill of exploiting secrets, and the choices a cyber-vigilante must make in a completely connected world.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: WoW loses 1.3M subscribers, Amazon brings paid apps to China, Q1 earnings, and more

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Watch Dog creators bring the reality of ‘smart cities’ to games (interview)

If you can control a city's water supply from your smartphone, you better not use the password "1111."