Over two years after it was introduced, Ubisoft continues to be engaged on The Division 3. And whereas it has but to point out off the sport, its chief developer has mentioned he thinks it’ll have as large an affect as The Division 1.
The Division 1 was introduced at E3 2013 with a trailer that went down as one of the vital talked about of the present. After a sequence of delays, The Division launched on March 8, 2016, breaking gross sales information for Ubisoft. The Division 2 adopted in 2019, though it didn’t make as large a splash at launch as its predecessor.
Whereas there’s no launch date for The Division 3, the hope is Ubisoft will present it off sooner or later this yr. Now, Julian Gerighty, government producer of The Division franchise at Ubisoft’s Large Leisure, has supplied a quick however tantalizing replace.
Talking in the course of the New Recreation+ Showcase 2026, Gerighty mentioned: “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 laborious on one thing that I believe will probably be as large an affect as Division 1 was.”
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 actually a sizzling 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.
In the meantime, help for The Division 2 continues with varied updates, and a group in Paris is placing the ultimate touches of a The Division cellular sport. The Division Heartland, a free-to-play spin-off, entered improvement in 2020 however was canceled in 2024.
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 concentrate on The Division franchise and its Snowdrop sport 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.
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