During the earlier days of its development, Watch_Dogs possessed a different title.

At the Eurogamer Expo, Ubisoft Montreal creative director Jonathan Morin confirmed the game’s original title: “Nexus”. A logo had been created for the name, which is present in the final version.

Morin said:

“It’s been a really long time for me and quite a few other people who worked on Watch Dogs since the beginning. It’s almost a generation so it’s unbelievably long. And when you’re doing a project for so long there’s a lot of different layers that get created. For example when we started the project we were called Nexus. We built a logo for it inspired by a logo that means connectivity and in the middle we created a little gap to emphasize the hacking part, exploiting the connectivity.”

“So as you can see we didn’t really deviate that much in five years from that direction. As the game evolved as the game that you know today known as Watch Dogs a lot of stuff happened and this logo ended up here. We kept it and put it into Aiden’s mask to signify what he’s using as a signature gameplay tool. There’s a lot of stuff like that in Watch Dogs, a lot of things that we built early on and decided to keep for later.

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We saw a portion of the ad below a few days ago, which seems to confirm a Mario & Luigi Premium Pack for Europe. Reader William E has now sent the full image away – and in higher-quality. Take a look:

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Warner Bros. will be revealing a new Batman: Arkham Origins character in less than 24 hours.

The official Batman Arkham Twitter account teased earlier today:

Anyone want to take a guess as to who’s being teased here?

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Hit the break for the images and details– it’s a bit of a lengthy post.

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Sonic Lost World’s Omochao RC gadget pre-order bonus has been confirmed for North America. If you reserve the title from GameStop, you’ll receive the bonus item. That’s on top of the bonus content included in the Deadly Six Edition.

SEGA confirmed today’s news through a tweet published on the official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account:

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Dengeki Online is working with Square Enix on a special promo. Those who fill out Japanese surveys can receive a code for the Donnerjäger Bow in Bravely Default, usable for the Hunters and Thieves jobs. You can find images (including a rough sketch of the bow) above.

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Depending on the reaction to Watch_Dogs, Ubisoft’s new IP “could” alternate with Assassin’s Creed on a yearly basis.

VideoGamer asked creative director Jonathan Morin about the chances of the two franchises switching off each year. Morin was a bit hesitant to say anything either way, but left the door open to the possibility.

He said:

“Could be. I don’t know. Right now I’m focussing on Watch Dogs The Game, and we’ll see when it comes out and people can scream their reaction and afterwards we’ll see what happens. There’s no point in being hasty about those things afterwards. Let’s just wait and see and not be cocky about it.”

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