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Watch Dogs Release Date Officially Announced

More than six months after the original launch date.

Update: Ubisoft has officially confirmed Watch Dogs will be available globally on May 27.

A new story trailer has been released to accompany the announcement, which you can check out below. Also, be sure to check out our latest hands-on impressions.

Original story follows.

Original story: Watch Dogs will be available on May 27, according to a new trailer for the game.

Eurogamer reports that a since-removed video on Xbox.com revealed the date at the end of a trailer. An official announcement by Ubisoft is expected later today.

This means that Watch Dogs received six months of extra development following previous delays. Ubisoft delayed Watch Dogs just a month before the game was supposed to come out in November 2013, which in turn led to us chatting to the developer about quite why this was done.

Despite a scare last month when the game's trademark was abandoned, Ubisoft since explained that such a move was the result of fraud, before successfully getting the trademark restored.

Earlier this week we got reports that the release date would be June 30 after a pre-order option appeared on the Sony Store, but it appears this wasn't correct. For more on Watch Dogs, check back to IGN later today.

Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Junior Editor. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on Twitter.