Aaron Keener, aka Vanguard, leads rogue agents in Warlords of New York.
Aaron Keener, aka Vanguard, leads rogue agents in Warlords of New York.
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The Division 2 Warlords of New York hands-on: The chase is on for rogue agents

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Ubisoft is launching its Tom Clancy’s The Division 2: Warlords of New York expansion on March 3 on the consoles and PC, and we’ve taken the first mission of the game for a spin.

It’s going to take players back to New York City, the center of the outbreak of the bio-engineered pandemic (yes, it seems all too real of a scenario right now) where the original game’s events took place. The Divison 2 took players to Washington, D.C., where agents of The Division (a secret military organization tasked with rescuing the government in an emergency) gathered to save the nation’s capital.

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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.