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Early Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Watch Dogs Legion players are grappling with a particularly frustrating flaw. Engadget reader Jordan points out that numerous players on Ubisoft's forums and Reddit's communities are having frequent trouble accessing saved games for both titles. The games claim the data is "corrupt" and effectively negate hours of progress. The issue isn't platform-specific, either, as it covers multiple PlayStation and Xbox systems as well as PCs. Users have speculated that the problem might stem from issues with Ubisoft's cloud saves, but others on the Gamespot forums have cast doubt on that conclusion.

Back in 2015, when creative director Clint Hocking and his team began crafting the near-future world of Watch Dogs: Legion, some of the biggest technology companies in the world were confidently describing skies buzzing with package-delivery drones and streets alive with autonomous vehicles. Into the game they went. For a speculative fiction game about mass surveillance, that creates some problems. "Technology companies--Tesla, Amazon--had started talking publicly about pretty aggressive timelines, schedules, and regulations," Hocking said in an interview with WIRED. On October 29, Watch Dogs: Legion will release as both a game and a time capsule from 2015, back when a couple of big, stock-inflating daydreams painted a picture for 2020 that's still far from materializing.

For the jailbreak mission, I used the "spy" character, whom I obtained as the reward for "freeing" the Westminster district of propaganda. Just as an aside, the Westminster mission showed the reward as a silhouette of a man with a beret, but the spy turned out to be a middle-aged woman in a sharp blazer armed with a silencer. A fellow reviewer told me he got an older black gentleman in a suit for that same mission, which indicates that even the more specialized characters are randomized. This might be worth keeping in mind for players looking for characters they think might look or dress or move a certain type of way.

Clint Hocking marked his return to Ubisoft in 2015 with a big idea. His new project "Watch Dogs: Legion" was ambitious, and its concept was born from a single question: What if you could play as anyone? It had never been done before. In open-world games, players normally control a single protagonist, or a couple of carefully crafted main characters. But Hocking envisioned a Watch Dogs game where players could explore a metropolitan city and, with the press of a button, switch perspectives to inhabit the body of a spy, construction worker or an average Joe walking to their office job. Every passerby is their own person, primed with a web of relationships, an occupation and a personality.

Stormzy has filmed the music video for Rainfall, the forthcoming single from his No 1 album Heavy is the Head, entirely inside a video game. The award-winning grime artist and social activist will also star as a future version of himself in a mission in the game, Watch Dogs: Legion, which is released on 29 October. Watch Dogs: Legion invites players to join the hacker resistance in a futuristic post-Brexit London under the thumb of an oppressive surveillance regime and its private military. Any of the thousands of different Londoners wandering the virtual streets can be recruited to the cause, and the player can control any one of them. The game, which is being developed by Ubisoft in Toronto and comes out next month, recreates various London locations from Trafalgar Square to Tower Hamlets and Camden.

Gamers will be able to get their hands on the next-generation Xbox consoles from November 10, Microsoft has confirmed. The flagship Xbox Series X is priced at £449, while the compact version, the Xbox Series S, will retail at £249. Pre-orders for both consoles, which are both part of Microsoft's ultra-powerful fourth-generation range, will begin on September 22. The devices will also be made available through its Xbox All Access programme, allowing players to split the cost across 24 months from £20.99 a month. The deal includes Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, the top tier of its gaming subscription service, and Xbox Live to play online.

Outside of disguises, operatives have unique abilities. You can strategically switch to a different character whenever, as long as you're out of combat. Some of my favorites include a beekeeper sending high-tech drone bees to swarm unsuspecting victims, and a football hooligan's ability to call the rest of your squad to battle (he also takes less damage when drunk, a silly modifier that can be used after drinking at a bar). You also have certain perks and abilities you can purchase (with in-game currency rewarded after gameplay events) that are shared across your entire team. One of my favorites was the AR Shroud, a passive skill that automatically renders dead or unconscious bodies invisible.

If you're a fan of Ubisoft's popular Watch Dogs video game series – a 5-year-old action-adventure franchise played out in real-world cities like Chicago and San Francisco – you'll no doubt want to get your hands on the next installment, slated for March 5, 2020, for PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Google Stadia. "Watch Dogs: Legion," which earned several "Best of Show" awards at the recent Electronic Entertainment Expo, the video game confab known as E3, looks to be the most ambitious title in the series to date. Is Facebook listening to me?: Why those ads appear after you talk about things One of the most ambitious games of 2020, Ubisoft's'Watch Dogs: Legion' takes place in a post-Brexit London, which has become an all-seeing surveillance state. The following is what you need to know about the game – based on what I saw (and played) at E3, along with some details provided by Joel Burgess, world director at Ubisoft Toronto, which is taking the reins on this title with portions of the game being developed simultaneously at Ubisoft studios in Montreal, Paris, Newcastle, England; Bucharest, Romania; and Kiev, Ukraine. One of the most ambitious games of 2020, Ubisoft's'Watch Dogs: Legion' takes place in a post-Brexit London, which has become an all-seeing surveillance state. The game takes place in a near-future London, at a time when people are being oppressed by Big Brother-esque surveillance and a corrupt private military corporation, Albion, patrolling the streets.

Maybe you've read the statistics on how many drones are filling our skies: The FAA anticipates 7 million by 2020. Perhaps you've heard about how drones are revolutionizing commercial operations. It's possible you know someone who has a drone of their own, or seen a quadcopter hovering over your local park. The reality is there's no shortage of drones filling our homes, stores, skies, and seas. It should come as no surprise that the technology is steadily making its way into our media.