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A whole bunch of new Watch Dogs details (plus a few screenshots) are now available thanks to an extensive article published on GameSpot. We’ve rounded up the latest content below. You’ll find even more information and developer commentary over at GameSpot.

– Your phone is the primary tool for interacting with the game world
– The phone is also a thematic focal point int he story
– A team inside Ubisoft Montreal was created in 2009 to work on a new open world game
– Only thing they had to follow was to make it an open-city title
– Surveillance infrastructure ctOS extends far beyond cameras, controlling everything from traffic lights to steam vents
– Hack objects on the fly
– Trigger massive pileups at intersections
– Flee from the police or tap into the system’s crime prediction mechanism to stop crimes before they even happen
– One of creative director Jonathan Morin’s earliest presentations conveyed this structure through a single image: a finger hovering above a red object accompanied by the phrase “Control an entire city through the press of a button”
– Team spent time working on who this character was, what his ambitions were, and how far he was willing to sidestep ethical boundaries to get there
– Focus on surveillance soon came together with that initial fascination around smartphones to form the game’s profiling system
– This lets you tap into the city’s repository of personal records and surveillance data to form a quick impression of every single pedestrian in the city
– You’ll see details such as profession, salary, and Web browsing habits flash across the screen as you pass strangers on the sidewalk
– Can learn more about an interesting person by listening on phone calls and remotely hacking his or her text message logs
– This is all done through Aiden’s smartphone
– Watch Dogs is still very much an action game
– Guns to fire, cars to drive, and a city’s worth of criminals and heavily armed security guards to deal with
– Hacking remains a constant theme
– Will see a context-sensitive white outline drawing your attention to objects you can hack everywhere you go
– Ex: in a police chase, you might hack a drawbridge just as you pass over it in order to lose the cops on your tail
– Ex: if you’re sneaking into a ctOS facility, you might hack a window washer to elevate you up to a second-floor window before accessing the security camera network to get a feel for the guards’ patrol routes
– The Watch Dogs team worked hard to maintain believability within the ctOS fiction
– Consulted with Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab to ensure that none of the various hacks were too extravagant
– Team took creative liberties is the speed with which these hacks are done
– Mostly everything can be hacked with one button press
– AI system is both aggressive and a little bit unpredictable

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/watch-dogs-and-the-terrifying-power-of-smartphones/1100-6418761/

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It shouldn’t be too long before we see European Conqueror 3D on the 3DS eShop. Earlier today, Circle Entertainment posted a message on Twitter stating that the game is now in final testing.

The note reads:

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Have to admit this is a pretty neat video!

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A bunch of additional details about The Amazing Spider-Man 2 have surfaced from a new preview on Polygon. You can check out a summary of information below and quotes from developer Beenox in the article here.

– The team understood that the original game’s foundation needed work
– One of the most important things Beenox sought to improve was the web swinging
– Beenox wants players to feel connected to the character of Spider-Man and to the people in his life as both the masked hero and Peter Parker
– Peter Parker segments happen at predetermined points
– Can’t switch in and out of costume on a whim
– As Peter, you’ll interact with other characters in RPG-like dialogue trees to learn more details about the story
– Can skip these segments if you choose
– Dialogue trees are meant as a “narrative vessel” to provide insight into the people in Parker’s life
– Will really get to meet the characters before facing off against them
– In one part of the game, Peter attends a cocktail party to snap some photos of the Manhattan elite
– Peter runs into Harry Osborn and the two discuss OsCorp’s connections to Wilson Fisk (Kingpin)
– Osborn admitted that Fisk was connected to the mafia but said Fisk was the only person willing and able to invest in the research OsCorp wanted to do
– Beenox is making other efforts to give players a sense of Spider-Man’s powers and responsibilities in other ways
– Will need to keep cleaning up crime by the game’s Hero/Menace system
– This sytem is not like the player’s-choice morality system you might find in something such as inFamous
– Complete side activities to push Spider-Man into the “Hero” side of the bar
– Stay there to earn bonuses on the ability boosts that his suits convey
– Crimes will expire after a certain period of time
– If you ignore them or don’t complete them successfully, you’ll become marked as a “Menace”
– When this happens, the city will send a special task force after you
– Drones will pester Spider-Man as he soars around Manhattan
– Limited set of repeating crimes
– These include ending a standoff between thugs and the police, rescuing citizens from burning buildings and defusing bombs
– Beenox believes it has designed the activities with enough variability to keep them fresh
– Ex: varying the number of people in a building, mixing up their locations and adding obstacles like debris to clear
– Many of Spider-Man’s adventures are set in the city itself this time around
– Even the ones that are in separate areas are much more open
– Ex: Spider-Man will go down into an abandoned subway tunnel to retrieve a new suit, and you can be stealthy or let the goons know you’re coming
– Not a straight movie tie-in
– Some story overlap from the film
– None of the actors voice their characters
– Game models don’t resemble the actors
– No spoilers for the film

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It goes without saying that Cult County will make use of the GamePad. Renegade Kid also has plans to support a Wiimote / nunchuck option.

That’s not all though. Renegade Kid co-founder Jools Watsham said in a Reddit AMA that the team will explore all control methods on Wii U, “and if they feel good we’ll include them.”

If you haven’t already, you can check out Cult County on Kickstarter here.

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Famitsu has compiled a listing of the best-selling games in Japan between April 1, 2013 and April 3, 2014. Here’s the full lineup:

10. New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U): 622,502 units sold
9. Yokai Watch (3DS): 652,803 units sold
8. Wii Party U (Wii U): 697,042 units sold
7. Grand Theft Auto V (PS3): 699,182 units sold
6. Dragon Quest Monsters 2 (3DS): 710,303 units sold
5. Animal Crossing New Leaf (3DS): 774,152 units sold
4. Puzzle and Dragons (3DS): 1,358,548 units sold
3. Tomodachi Collection Shin Seikatsu (3DS): 1,635,099 units sold
2. Monster Hunter 4 (3DS): 3,429,862 units sold
1. Pocket Monsters X/Y (3DS): 4,328,008 units sold

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Game Atelier has launched its Kickstarter for Flying Hamster II. You can check out the campaign here with more details about the project.

Flying Hamster II will need to raise $150,000 in order to secure funding. Wii U and 3DS stretch goal amounts haven’t been determined yet, but it seems that they’ll be set past $350,000.

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