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Watch Dogs Hacker Hunt is live, H_ide app for iOS and Android now available

Ubisoft has launched the Watch Dogs Hacker Hunt on WeareData.Watchdogs.com, and it finds five hackers loose in London. You will need to hunt them down.

Over the next five days, players will be given clues to the hacker's real-time whereabouts in the city. Guess the location and search the area on the WeareData map to find their tweets and instagrams.

If you can hunt down all five posts by the hackers and discover the hidden code within, you’ll be able to unlock a special website for a chance to win a Sony PlayStation 4, Watch Dogs Collector’s Editions and other great prizes.

Once you have cracked the code enter it at the following website.

Here's the video for it.

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Also now available is the H_ide app for iOS and Android.

The app is free and will allow you to communicate with your friends in the following ways:

- Anonymous voice messages

- Encrypted text messages

- Encrypt pictures

- Record a message (up to 20 seconds)

- Choose a filter to modulate your voice

- Send it to your friend

- Your friend will receive a link to listen to your message

- Share content on social networks or send directly as SMS

Watch Dogs is out on PC, PS3, Wii U and Xbox 360 in North America on November 19, and across Europe on November 22. It’ll also hit PS4 at launch and Xbox One in due course.

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