Tom Clancy's The Division
Some New Yorkers like it better when the government is in ruins: a screenshot from Tom Clancy's The Division.
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At last, a hands-on preview with Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s The Division

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s The Division isn’t arriving until early next year. But I got a chance to play the game hands-on at a press event ahead of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the big gaming trade show in Los Angeles this week.

It was an interesting demo. The open world title has a unique take on single-player play and open-world freedom. The world has been hit by a plague spread through paper money. Bad guys emerge, including former prisoners on Riker’s Island in New York. These “Rikers” served as the enemy in the neighborhood that my team of three players was clearing in the The Division.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.