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With a little more than a month until their highly anticipated open world action-adventure Watch_Dogs hits multiple video game platforms around the world, Ubisoft have announced their enlisting of author John Shirley to write an e-book for the game titled Watch_Dogs //n/Dark Clouds.
Rather than serving as a prologue to the events of Watch_Dogs, this new book will pick up where the game leaves off, allowing further exploration of the game world. The e-book has been described as a first for Ubisoft, being conceived in-house and will be released exclusively via digital channels.
Watch_Dogs //n/Dark Clouds will be available in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish upon the games release on May 27th, 2014. It will be available in two digital formats: an upgraded e-book version with interactive elements including videos and image and a classic e-book.
John Shirley | Author of Watch_Dogs //n/Dark Clouds
Working on Watch Dogs was enormously interesting to me because its world offers the convergence of cyberpunk and the edgy tech reality of our times; it all plays out with action and energy against the inner city backdrop that I thrive in. With hack tech in one hand and gun in the other, Aiden Pearce is a believable fusion of hacker and action hero who deliberately slips between the cracks of society to relentlessly pursue his agenda. The novel introduces Mick Wolfe, an ex-military, who gets caught in a dangerous game in Chicago’s hyper connected and violent underground. Working with Thomas Geffroyd and Kevin Shortt at Ubisoft to develop the book was a rocking experience – Ubisoft is right out there on the frontier of videogame development. I couldn’t ask for more inspiration
