New updates for Ubisoft's hacking open world video game, Watch Dogs have been revealed!

Ubisoft has unveiled the release date of Watch Dogs 2 and Aaccording to reports from International Business Times, Watch Dogs 2 is rumored to be release in 2016 for the PS4, Xbox One and PC.

The website further reports that 9 locations will be added in the game and these are Tokyo, Singapore, New York, Dubai, San Francisco, Silicon City, Stockholm, Beijing, and London.

It was reported before that New York and New Jersey have already been added to Watch Dogs 2, but the New Jersey location turns out the be an added update for the first Watch Dogs game.

The Fuse Joplin has reported before that Ubisoft might be adding some changes in Watch Dogs. Gaming fans felt that first game lack several features like more weapons, activities to explore, and gameplay features. Ubisoft developers hinted that there will be more destructive weapons in Watch Dogs 2 that will rival GTA 5, better graphics than the first game, more places to explore aside from Chicago, new side-missions to test their skills, new activities such as going to gyms, shopping in malls, and more.

There are also hints that Watch Dog 2 might have a new protagonist, which begs the question. Will Aiden Pearce return to the sequel?

Gaming website, Game Debate conducted an interview with Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot regarding Aiden Pearce in Watch Dogs 2.

“I can’t say because I don’t know actually. We’ll see.”

“We knew it would be polarizing; some people loved the characters and some didn't. It was difficult to please everybody with that character. Now, having seen the reaction, we know what we will do next to improve that.”

But, according to reports from Cyberland, Ubisoft pitched in an idea that Raymond "T-Bone" Kenney will likely be the new protagonist replacing Aiden Pearce in the game.

T-Bone is one of the main characters in the first game and his connections to ctOS had serve a major contribution in Aiden's quest in the game. T-Bone will also have his own campaign in the Watch Dogs DLC called Bad Blood on September 30.

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