A PR stunt for a new video game saw the bomb squad called to Ninemsn’s offices yesterday afternoon after a black safe was delivered to the Australia Square offices of the publisher along with a “suspicious” letter which told a reporter to “check your voicemail”. However, the reporter did not have a voicemail, and when staff  tried to enter a pin code taped to the top of the safe, which was dropped off by a courier but not signed for, it started to beep but did not open, leading to fears it could be an explosive device.

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Watch Dogs will run at 900p on PlayStation 4 and 792p on Xbox One, Ubisoft has confirmed. Both versions will run at 30 frames per second. The PS4 version's performance comes in slightly lower than many had expected, with prior comments from Sony and Ubisoft suggesting that the game would run at full HD 1080p. Sony even went so far as to say that the game would run at 1080p/60fps on PS4, although its comments were later deleted.

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Ubisoft Montreal’s Watch Dogs will finally be out in May, culminating in more than six months worth of controversies including a delay and accusations of visual downgrade. It will be worth the wait in terms of visuals at least, as team lead programmer Francis Boivin confirmed that it would use enhanced subpixel morphological anti-aliasing (SMAA) for both the Xbox One and PS4 versions.

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Watch Dogs has a confirmed May 27th release date for PlayStation 4 and 3, Xbox One and 360, and PC, but the Wii U version's release has been a mystery. The Wii U version of the game showed up recently on Ubisoft's official online store with a Fall 2014 release window, and Ubisoft has confirmed the accuracy of the window for launch.

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A Watch Dogs DLC season pass has been revealed by GameStop. According to the retailer, the $19.99 season pass will offer access to a range of Watch Dogs DLC at a discounted price. "Stay connected to the world of Watch Dogs with the Watch Dogs Season Pass," reads the product listing. "Get access to a unique single player campaign featuring a new playable character plus more missions, weapons, and exclusive content for $19.99.

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Watch Dogs will take the average player around 35-40 hours to complete, creative director Jonathan Morin has claimed, with those looking to finish everything expected to take closer to 100 hours. "I would say the average player which does free roam a bit tend to reach the end within 35-40h," Morin told a fan on Twitter. "But doing everything is close 100h."

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References to an unannounced closed Watch Dogs beta appeared in the Xbox One user interface this week, according to multiple posts on Reddit. Reddit user AbleToFail discovered a listing in the Xbox One store for "Watch_Dogs Closed Beta" by looking for clips by game in the Upload app and then navigating to the store.

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A recent livestream from the team behind Ubisoft's upcoming open-world action game Watch Dogs answers several fan questions, including why the game was delayed and how its drop-in multiplayer will function. According to lead game designer Danny Belanger, players who aren't interested in unexpected visits from other players can easily switch the function off.

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Ubisoft's Watch Dogs will release on May 27th, the publisher has confirmed. The release date was revealed ahead of schedule via a trailer which leaked on Xbox.com. The highly anticipated open-world game was most recently scheduled for release in spring 2014, after being delayed out of the November 2013 launch window for Xbox One and PS4.

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Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs still doesn’t have a confirmed release date but more and more new information is starting to come out about the game. For instance, director Kun Chang listed on his official page that he had directed 110 minutes of cutscenes for the game.

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Confirmation that Watch Dogs has been delayed again on Wii U, and will arrive later than on other platforms, is certainly a hot topic. While debates around the reasons, justification and ramifications for the game's sales will spin around, there are key statistics that highlight just why Ubisoft isn't exactly busting a gut to deliver the Wii U version alongside the others — the numbers simply don't add up.

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Ubisoft has confirmed that the Wii U version of Watch Dogs will come later than the other versions (Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PC). “We made the difficult decision to further delay the release of Watch Dogs on Wii U to focus the team’s resources where they could have the broadest possible benefit for both our customers and Ubisoft,” CEO Yves Guillemot said during today's financial call.

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Rumours of Watch Dogs' Wii U cancellation have resurfaced after the game failed to appear on Nintendo's official 2014 release schedule. The platform holder published a revised list of first and third-party titles headed to Wii U last night, following its Q3 2014 briefing – but Watch Dogs remained mysteriously absent.

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Ubisoft has declined to comment amidst suggestions that the Wii U version of Watch Dogs has been cancelled. CVG contacted the studio to address the rumour after it was claimed that Italian branches of GameStop have been cancelling pre-orders and informing customers the Wii U version had been scrapped. "We have nothing to comment at the moment," a Ubisoft spokesperson replied.

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PlayStation snagged exclusive DLC for both Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag. But, "exclusive" typically means "timed exclusive" in this business, and that happens to be the case here too. The 60 minutes of new gameplay promised for both games are exclusive to PlayStation platforms for 6 months only, a new video released by PlayStation reveals.

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