Large Leisure has introduced that The Division collection has recorded over 50 million gamers throughout its video games, simply because the collection hits its tenth anniversary. That’s a whole lot of +1 protection beanies!
The long-running looter shooter started life in 2016 with the launch of The Division. It got here out three years after its flashy reveal at Ubisoft’s E3 2013 convention which, on the time, exceeded expectation for next-gen gaming (bear in mind when the man closed the automotive door whereas in cowl?). The Division 2 adopted in 2019, however gross sales failed to fulfill Ubisoft’s expectations. Quite a lot of spinoffs have come and gone since.
Large Leisure introduced a brand new DLC for The Division 2 at a neighborhood panel at Gamescom earlier this yr. The Echoes of Central Park DLC releases on November 3. It appears doubtless the brand new enlargement — which provides a horror-themed flashback marketing campaign, a stash house improve, a degree enhance, and extra — will see much more gamers shoot numbers out of some guys throughout the U.S., each returning and new.
With these sorts of numbers, it’s no shock Ubisoft and Large aren’t accomplished with the collection. Tom Clancy’s The Division 3 can be formally in manufacturing at Large Leisure. Initially headed up by govt producer Julian Gerighty (who additionally led Star Wars Outlaws and The Division 2), The Division 3 is now within the arms of inventive director Mathias Karlson, recreation director on The Division 2. Gerighty just lately left Ubisoft to work at Battlefield developer DICE.
Gerighty confirmed his departure in a social media post only a week after showing on a livestream to advertise The Division 3. “So, The Division 3 is in manufacturing, proper?” he stated earlier than his departure. “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 onerous on one thing that I feel will likely be as large an impression as Division 1 was.”
Following his departure, Massive reassured fans that The Division 3 was in protected arms. “For our gamers, don’t fear, Brokers,” the studio stated in a social media publish. “Our groups who constructed this world with Julian are nonetheless right here, carrying it ahead with an formidable, unchanged dedication to the long run.”
There’s no phrase on when The Division 3 will launch, however Ubisoft is making it a precedence. Late final yr, Large Leisure launched what it referred to as a “voluntary profession transition program,” as a part of a transfer to concentrate on The Division franchise and its Snowdrop recreation engine.