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The Division 3 announced in the most underwhelming way possible

By Matthew Liebl

PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 02: The logo of the French video game development, publishing and distribution company, Ubisoft is displayed during Paris Games Week 2022 at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on November 02, 2022 in Paris, France. After two years of absence linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, Paris Games Week is making a comeback in Paris. The event celebrating video games and esports will be held from November 2 to 6, 2022. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 02: The logo of the French video game development, publishing and distribution company, Ubisoft is displayed during Paris Games Week 2022 at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on November 02, 2022 in Paris, France. After two years of absence linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, Paris Games Week is making a comeback in Paris. The event celebrating video games and esports will be held from November 2 to 6, 2022. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) /
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Tom Clancy’s The Division is one of Ubisoft’s most commercially successful series, with the latest installment, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, selling over 10 million copies.  You’d think a game with such mass appeal would warrant a bigger reveal for a third game in the series, but instead, all we’ve got was confirmation of The Division 3 via an executive producer job announcement.

This past week, Ubisoft issued a news release announcing the return of Julian Gerighty as Executive Producer for The Division Brand. Currently serving as creative director for Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws, Gerighty will move to The Division once that game has shipped.

Once he returns to The Division brand, Gerighty will focus on building a team for Tom Clancy’s The Division 3, which I guess has now officially been confirmed. The development will be led by Massive Entertainment, the studio behind The Division 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Star Wars Outlaws, to name a few.

And that’s it. That’s as much as we got about The Division 3. Because the game is not actually in development right now, or even pre-production, there are no screenshots or trailers or anything. All we have right now is a promising vision that Gerighty has for The Division as a whole.

"“I think that we delivered that with Tom Clancy’s The Division’s cutting-edge visuals, incredible gameplay, and promise to the player that they can’t get this experience anywhere else, and then again with Tom Clancy’s The Division 2. It’s about refinement, it’s about pushing the quality bar consistently forward.”"

Gerighty has a history with The Division, having served as Associate Creative Director for the game in 2014. He then joined Massive Entertainment and helped ship the original in 2016, before becoming Creative Director for its sequel, The Division 2.

In addition to leading the development of The Division 3, Gerighty will also oversee a number of other projects that will expand upon The Division franchise, which includes the upcoming mobile game Tom Clancy’s The Division Resurgence, as well as the survival-action shooter, Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland.

It wasn’t the most exciting way to announce The Division 3, but as a fan of the first two games, I suppose this is better than nothing. I’ve been long waiting to return to the world of The Division, as I loved the first two games. While it’s likely we’ll be waiting years before we see anything of substance from the game, at least knowing one is on the horizon is enough to get me excited.

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