Watch Dogs (stylized as WATCH_DOGS) is an action-adventure video game franchise published by Ubisoft, and developed primarily by its Montreal and Toronto studios using the Disrupt game engine. The series’ eponymous first title was released in 2014, and it has featured three games in total, the most recent being 2020’s Watch Dogs: Legion. Several tie-in books and comic book miniseries set in the games’ universe have also been published. Wikipedia

Research exclusive to this game

Lowien, Nathan. “The semiotic construction of values in the videogame Watch Dogs.” English in Australia 51, no. 2 (2016): 41-51. Games and Learning Learning: Language Semiotics

Ng, Jenna, and Jamie Macdonald. “” We are Data”: The Cyberpunk Imaginary of Data Worlds in Watch Dogs.” In Cyberpunk and Visual Culture, pp. 174-189. Routledge, 2017. Game Spaces

Research that includes this game in its sample

Schoppmeier, Sören. “Legible Bodies and the Ghosts of American History: On Racialized Surveillance in Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs Videogames.” European journal of American studies 16, no. 16-3 (2021). Close Reading of Games Racial and Ethnic Representation

Other games in the franchise

Watch Dogs (3)

Watch Dogs: Legion (2)

Watch Dogs 2 (5)