Ubisoft has announced a new entry to The Division franchise, a free-to-play title called Tom Clancy’s The Division: Heartland.
Heartland is being developed by Red Storm Entertainment, who also worked on both The Division and its sequel. The free-to-play game will be a standalone experience, releasing on Playstation, Xbox and PC in 2021-22.
Ubisoft also announced intentions to take The Division franchise to mobile, though provided no further details on this.
“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.” explained Alain Corre, Executive Director of Ubisoft EMEA. “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.”
Ubisoft dropped some interesting news today with a new free-to-play expansion game called
Tom Clancy's The Division Heartland. The company revealed several plans for the franchise this morning, which include a major motion picture on the way, which we have notes on below. But the big reveal was for
Heartland, which as you can see from the image here, takes place within the timeline of
The Division 2, but will apparently be its own separate story set apart from the events of the game. Development is being led by Red Storm Entertainment, which has worked on Tom Clancy IPs in the past, including games in the franchise, so they know what's up with everything happening. All we know right now is that the game will be a stand-alone experience available on PC, console, and cloud platforms sometime in 2021-22. In the meantime, you can read more about Ubisoft's announcements for the series below.
Ubisoft Announces Tom Clancy's The Division: Heartland Free-to-Play Game May 6, 2021 17:13 GMT
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The Division: Heartland artwork
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.
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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.
The launch of Tom Clancy’s The Division
® back in 2016 marked the first completely original IP under the Tom Clancy umbrella since 2009, and the game broke multiple Ubisoft sales records. The franchise continued its development with Tom Clancy’s The Division
® 2 becoming one of the most successful games of 2019 and its 2020 expansion, Tom Clancy’s The Division
® 2 Warlords of New York, was the most active in the game’s history.
“In the past five years, The Division has grown from a very ambitious project at Ubisoft to a world-renowned franchise reaching 40 million unique players,” explained Alain Corre, executive director of Ubisoft EMEA. “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.”