HITTING A NERVE: In "Watch Dogs," the player-controlled antihero can access everything from the cellphone conversations and medical records of passers-by to computers which control traffic lights, to advance through the game.
SAN FRANCISCO: Hacker-themed videogame Watch Dogs makes its hotly anticipated debut on Tuesday in a world grappling with real-life fears about privacy in the Internet era.
France-based Ubisoft's new title features a protagonist who controls the world around him by hacking into systems and has generated intense buzz for eerie parallels with the storm about US surveillance.
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