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Rumor: Tom Clancy’s The Division delayed into 2015

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Tom Clancy’s The Division wowed attendees at last year’s E3 Expo. The MMO from Ubisoft Massive is powered by the brand new Snowdrop Engine and is expected to launch in late 2014 for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One. However, an anonymous developer within Massive recently told Gamereactor UK that he/she believes that is very unlikely due to the game’s current unfinished state:

“The game engine works well, it’s not done but works well. The actual game development has barely started, however,” says our source.

“The fact that Ubisoft has gone public with a 2014 release date feels laughable to be perfectly honest, we will never be able to release The Division this year. It’s a large project, and we have very far to go.”

Ubisoft hasn’t been shy about touting the technological muscle that has been poured into The Division, so if this report is true, it’s actually rather unsurprising. The Division is, quite literally, a massive game. And Ubisoft surely wants to get it right, as they’ve shown with South Park: The Stick of Truth, Watch Dogs, and The Crew.

And speaking of Ubisoft’s other games, the company has a huge slate of titles on tap for 2014. Even if The Division is ready, moving it would make sense from a practical standpoint. In addition to those three games, Ubisoft has also scheduled Child of Light, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, and an untitled new entry in the Assassin’s Creed series for release this year. That’s a lot of games and giving a big new franchise like The Division room to breath makes more sense than sticking to a (possibly) arbitrary 2014 release date.

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VGX 2013 Trailer: Tom Clancy’s The Division

Are you awake enough on this Sunday morning for a bunch of techspeak? Then I give you the “World Premiere” trailer for Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s The Division. Focusing on the power of the game’s Snowdrop Engine, the trailer goes in-depth on the game’s lighting system, shaders, particle physics, realistic damage effects, and much more.

Tom Clancy’s The Division will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One towards the end of next year.

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VGX 2013 will include new trailers for TitanFall, Quantum Break, The Division, more

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Spike TV’s revamped VGX Awards are set to begin in just a few hours (6:00 PM Eastern Time to be exact) and this year’s show is sure to pack plenty of surprises. In addition to our first look at Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition on the PS4 and Xbox One and a new trailer for Bungie’s Destiny, the 2013 VGX Awards will include…

A “Live Schedule” of tonight’s festivities can be found at the VGX Awards site. Be sure to cycle through it for more VGX events including an appearance by Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime, a Grand Theft Auto V-themed concert, and a lot more.

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Tom Clancy’s The Division is a next-gen MMO that proves Ubisoft is scared of everything

Ubisoft announced Watch Dogs at last year’s E3 Expo and made the world scared of the “all seeing eye” that is the interconnected computer systems of a modern city. This year, they’ve gone one further and announced Tom Clancy’s The Division, a multiplayer online action RPG developed by Massive Entertainment for the PS4 and Xbox One that chronicles a nationwide pandemic with paper money at the zero point:

The Division takes place in New York three weeks after a lethal virus, released on Black Friday, has swept through the city. One by one, basic services have failed. Society has collapsed into chaos. The President invokes Presidential Directive 51, and The Division, a top-secret unit of self-supporting tactical agents, is activated. Leading seemingly ordinary lives, Division agents are trained to operate independently of command in this type of emergency situation. When the lights go out, their mission begins.

So according to Watch Dogs, credit cards are evil. And according to The Division, paper money will be our downfall. Thanks for that, Ubisoft! As if I didn’t worry about the future enough as it is.

You can definitely see the stylistic similarities between the debut trailers for Tom Clancy’s The Division and Watch Dogs, but you can check out the former’s hybird RPG/shooter style in a seven-minute gameplay trailer after the break. (more…)

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