An employee for Ubisoft might have inadvertently announced a sequel to "Watch Dogs."
Last week on LinkedIn, a Ubisoft senior programmer listed "Watch Dogs 2" as one of his projects. Spotted first by game site Videogamer, Julien Risse works out of the Paris office of Ubisoft, and has been a part of the original "Watch Dogs" title and its DLC expansion, "Bad Blood."
The post seems to confirm last year's statement by Ubisoft Montreal's vice president of creative Lionel Raynaud. Raynaud said that if there would be further developments for the next title, the second installment of "Watch Dogs" would introduce some very big changes.
In terms of changes in the sequel, there are reports that the original game's lead star, Aiden Pearce, will not be making a comeback. This is to ensure that a more diversified continuity would be presented for the next "Watch Dogs" game.
No other details were made available other than the accidental posting of the Ubisoft employee on LinkedIn. However, most observers in the game industry, as well as the hardcore fans of the first title, speculate that details for the next installment of game might be presented at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, to be held in June at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California.
"Watch Dogs" was released in May of last year and introduced players to the open world, third-person adventure and exploration of a world with supercomputers. The game stars Aiden Pearce, a hacker that people are trying to kill because of a job gone wrong. He tries to get revenge for the death of his niece, Lena. The game also features the supercomputer ctOS, a centralized operating system in a future Chicago.
'Watch Dogs" proceeded to sell at least nine million copies, and fans have been clamoring for the next installment ever since.
