Ubisoft have announced that their new shooter, XDefiant, is to be delayed with no new release date. The official X / Twitter feed posted the news today.
21.09.2023 - 21:14 / gamedeveloper.com / Rainbow VI (Vi) / Julian Gerighty / Tom Clancy / Ubisoft
Ubisoft has made another shakeup for one of its core franchises, as Julian Gerighty is now the executive producer for its Division franchise. After shipping Star Wars Outlaws (as its creative director), he's to oversee the "plethora of projects" for the Tom Clancy branded sub-franchise.
Earlier this summer, Ubisoft placed a number of longtime veterans such as Sandra Warren and Drew Holmes in key roles for its Far Cry series. While its franchises have a long tail with players, the developer has struggled in recent years, and has spent much of 2023 without a major release in sight.
Gerighty has been a longtime Ubisoft employee since 1999, when he was the head of its marketing team. From there, he moved on from marketing to working on all of the developer's internal properties and their cross-media strategies.
His first project as creative director was on 2014's The Crew. After that release, he moved on to Ubisoft Massive to work on both mainline Division entries. As highlighted by Ubisoft, one of Gerighty's first tasks as EP of the multiplayer shooter series will be to create a team and begin pre-production on The Division 3.
The Division 2 released in 2019 and similar to fellow Tom Clancy shooter Rainbow Six Siege, has had a lengthy lifecycle. Ubisoft has kept the online game alive via seasonal updates, and earlier this year, bricked the entire game ahead of a then-new season.
In addition to the mainline game, a pair of Division spin-offs are in development: The Division Resurgence is a free-to-play game for iOS and Android that Ubisoft hopes will be as successful as similar mobile offshoots like PUBG Mobile and Call of Duty Mobile.
Meanwhile, The Division Heartland is a standalone free-to-play shooter with survival elements from Red Storm Entertainment. Like The Division 2, Heartland will be for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4, and also include Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5.
Ubisoft have announced that their new shooter, XDefiant, is to be delayed with no new release date. The official X / Twitter feed posted the news today.
XDefiant is the upcoming free-to-play shooter from Ubisoft, which aims to recapture the classic arcade shooter-style game seen in shooters of yesteryear. However, since its announcement, it has had quite a turbulent development, and now it has been indefinitely delayed, raising the question of when players will see the game make its return and when we could expect to see a release date again.
Ubisoft's free-to-play competitive FPS XDefiant, surely a contender for the silliest game name in history (sorry Warface), has announced another delay following a recent public playtest. The game was due to launch with a «Preseason» this month but, following what the developers describe as «inconsistencies in the game experience», has been delayed to an unspecified date.
Ubisoft revealed its «fast-paced firefights meets punk rock mosh pits» first-person shooter, Tom Clancy's XDefiant, in 2021. It's a free-to-play shooter that features factions from different Ubisoft properties, like Splinter Cell, Watch Dogs, The Division, and Far Cry. We went hands-on with XDefiant earlier this year and came away impressed with the shooter. Players enjoyed an open beta back in June, and the full game was set to launch in the summer, but now, developer Ubisoft San Francisco has delayed its preseason launch indefinitely.
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Ubisoft has outed the existence of The Division 3 — the next game in its looter shooter series. The title is currently in early development, and that's pretty much all we've got to go on. Just to give you an idea of what 'early' means, the team at Massive Entertainment — the lead developer on both of the previous Division games — is now recruiting for the project. So yeah, it's early.
Yes, The Division 3 is happening, Ubisoft has confirmed in what is a contender for the most nonchalant game announcement of all time.
Tom Clancy’s The Division 3 is officially on the cards. Julian Gerighty, who worked on the previous games before becoming creative director on Star Wars Outlaws, will become executive producer for The Division brand once the sci-fi title is out.
Ubisoft sure does love a sequel, and it's now confirmed — in just about as understated a fashion as is possible — that it's got another one in the works, this time in the form of The Division 3.
Ubisoft has confirmed that Tom Clancy’s The Division 3 is in the works, with Massive Entertainment leading development. The French publisher also announced it tapped Julian Gerighty as the new executive producer for The Division brand. He will dive into the new role once his work as creative director on Star Wars Outlaws is wrapped up.
In what could arguably be one of the most deflated ways to announce a new game in a series, Ubisoft has revealed that The Division 3 is coming thanks to a tweet announcing Julian Gerighty’s new role at the company. The tweet sees Ubisoft mention the game’s existence in a passing remark as they announce Gerighty’s new position as Executive Producer for the series, and it’s honestly about as unexciting as a reveal can get.
Ubisoft are planning to make Tom Clancy's The Division 3. The project was announced alongside news that Julian Gerighty, the current creative director of Star Wars Outlaws, would move across to be "executive producer for The Division brand" once that project is finished.