Huge Leisure has introduced that The Division sequence has recorded over 50 million gamers throughout its video games, simply because the sequence hits its tenth anniversary. That’s plenty 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 (keep in mind when the man closed the automotive door whereas in cowl?). The Division 2 adopted in 2019, however gross sales failed to satisfy Ubisoft’s expectations. Plenty of spinoffs have come and gone since.
Huge Leisure introduced a brand new DLC for The Division 2 at a group panel at Gamescom earlier this 12 months. The Echoes of Central Park DLC releases on November 3. It appears possible the brand new growth — which provides a horror-themed flashback marketing campaign, a stash house enhance, a stage 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 Huge aren’t carried out with the sequence. Tom Clancy’s The Division 3 can be formally in manufacturing at Huge 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 fingers of inventive director Mathias Karlson, recreation director on The Division 2. Gerighty recently left Ubisoft to work at Battlefield developer DICE.
Gerighty confirmed his departure in a social media post only a week after appearing on a livestream to promote The Division 3. “So, The Division 3 is in manufacturing, proper?” he mentioned earlier than his departure. “This isn’t a secret. It has been introduced. It is shaping as much as be a monster.
“I can not actually say something greater than that. However that is, inside these partitions in Huge, we’re working extraordinarily onerous on one thing that I believe will probably be as large an impression as Division 1 was.”
Following his departure, Massive reassured fans that The Division 3 was in secure fingers. “For our gamers, don’t fear, Brokers,” the studio mentioned 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 12 months, Huge Leisure launched what it referred to as a “voluntary profession transition program,” as a part of a transfer to give attention to The Division franchise and its Snowdrop recreation engine.