(*3*)The Division 1 was introduced at E3 2013 with a trailer that went down as one of the crucial talked about of the present. After a sequence of delays, The Division launched on March 8, 2016, breaking gross sales data for Ubisoft. The Division 2 adopted in 2019, though it didn’t make as massive a splash at launch as its predecessor.
(*3*)Whereas there’s no launch date for The Division 3, the hope is Ubisoft will present it off in some unspecified time in the future this 12 months. Now, Julian Gerighty, govt producer of The Division franchise at Ubisoft’s Large Leisure, has supplied a short however tantalizing replace.
(*3*)Talking through the New Recreation+ Showcase 2026, Gerighty stated: “So, The Division 3 is in manufacturing, proper? This isn’t a secret. It has been introduced. It is shaping as much as be a monster. I am unable to actually say something greater than that. However that is, inside these partitions in Large, we’re working extraordinarily arduous on one thing that I feel will likely be as massive an influence as Division 1 was.”
(*3*)That’s not a lot to go on, however clearly Ubisoft is hoping that The Division 3 will rekindle recollections of The Division 1, which was definitely a scorching matter when it was introduced and loved large gross sales when it will definitely got here out. The strain is on to ship, particularly with Ubisoft’s current high-profile struggles.
(*3*)In the meantime, help for The Division 2 continues with varied updates, and a crew in Paris is placing the ultimate touches of a The Division cellular recreation. The Division Heartland, a free-to-play spin-off, entered improvement in 2020 however was canceled in 2024.
(*3*)Two months in the past, Large Leisure launched what it referred to as a ‘voluntary profession transition program,’ (the studio requested its workers to volunteer to be laid off) as a part of a transfer to give attention to The Division franchise and its Snowdrop recreation engine. It got here as a part of important restructuring at Ubisoft that has seen a number of studio closures and rounds of layoffs. Large Leisure’s Star Wars Outlaws, launched in 2024, was a giant gross sales disappointment for Ubisoft, regardless of important improvement and advertising prices.
(*3*)Wesley is Director, Information at IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You may attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.