Tag Archives: Tom Clancy’s The Division

Destiny proved that always-online RPGs could work on consoles, provided the MMO-style experience was grounded by solid gameplay. Activision’s space epic FPS took the inherent fun of blasting aliens in Halo, then gave players a reason to stick around for hundreds of hours with endlessly replayable quests, addictive progression, and …

The Division (opens in new tab)’s beta will kick off some time before the end of this month, according to Ubisoft’s Uplay app. The beta was originally supposed to launch back in December for all Xbox One owners, though that got bumped back (opens in new tab) in favor of …

Helping out your buddies as an aerial drone in Tom Clancy’s The Division (opens in new tab) seemed poised to be that rarest of achievements: a worthwhile video game companion app. In fact, it was actually too worthwhile, and that’s why it’s been cut from the game. Aside from being …

Thanks to Watch Dogs not being quite as ‘next-genny’ as previously suggested, a lot of hope now rests on the shoulders of Ubisoft’s The Division (opens in new tab), with its tantalising mix of MMORPG concepts, third-person shooting, and, of course, realistic car-door-closing action. Most of Ubi’s chatter has been …

The Division is taking a cutthroat approach to player vs. player battle. Ubisoft’s next-gen, online, open-world shooter makes players comb through a quarantined city to collect gear and supplies. That makes each encounter, where players can lose their hard-fought stuff to other players, particularly thrilling. “We want player versus player …