Watch Dogs will feature free roam multiplayer for up to eight players in its open world.

The news comes via Ubisoft creative director Jonathan Morin, who responded to a fan on Twitter asking what we should expect outside of the game's single-player offerings.The news comes hot on the heels that the game finally has a release date in May . This means that Watch Dogs received six months of extra development following previous delays. Ubisoft delayed Watch Dogs just a month before the game was supposed to come out in November 2013, which in turn led to us chatting to the developer about quite why this was done Despite a scare last month when the game's trademark was abandoned , Ubisoft since explained that such a move was the result of fraud, before successfully getting the trademark restored

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