Assassin's Creed: why DLC and companion apps are gaming's next war zone

The latest Ubisoft action adventure locked certain content unless players downloaded a special app. The feature has been abandoned but it says a lot about where games areUntil recently, if you bought Ubisoft’s historical action adventure Assassin’s Creed: Unity, and came across a blue chest while exploring the game’s luscious depiction of revolutionary France, you wouldn’t have been able to open it. At least you wouldn’t unless you downloaded the special companion app on your Android o