14 DAY TRIAL // Ubisoft's The Division franchise has been quite successful, especially after the release of the second game. Now the French developer announced plans to expand the franchise with a brand new game in the same universe: Tom Clancy's The Division: Heartland.
“In the past 5 years, The Division has grown from a very ambitious project at Ubisoft, to a world-renowned franchise reaching 40 million unique players. We are very proud of what our teams have accomplished with this franchise and the amazing universe they have created. The potential and depth of this enables us to explore new and exciting content that will please loyal long-term fans of The Division and new ones alike,” explained Alain Corre, Executive Director of Ubisoft EMEA.
Tom Clancy’s The Division: Heartland is a free-to-play game set in The Division universe, which is developed by Red Storm Entertainment, a studio with close ties to the Tom Clancy licenses, who have also worked on The Division and The Division 2. Ubisoft confirmed that The Division: Heartland will be a standalone experience and that the game will release on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC in 2021-22.
For those who still play The Division 2, Ubisoft will release new content as part of an update coming late 2021. Ubisoft Massive, with support from Ubisoft Bucharest, is leading the development of this new content that will include an entirely new game mode and new methods for leveling agents with an emphasis on increasing build variety and viability.
Last but not least, The Division is also expanding its transmedia offering, with the previously announced film, starring Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal, in development with Netflix, also announcing an upcoming original novel published by Aconyte.
The story will be set after the events of The Division 2 and will explore how the Outbreak affects different regions of the United States as agents fight to secure supply routes.
In other news, Ubisoft announced plans to take The Division franchise to mobile, bringing the universe to an even wider audience.