Tom Clancy's The Division: Resurgence is a new mobile free-to-play RPG.
Tom Clancy's The Division: Resurgence is a new mobile free-to-play RPG.
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Why Ubisoft believes it’s time for triple-A free-to-play games on mobile

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Ubisoft revealed last week that it is making Tom Clancy’s The Division: Resurgence, a new free-to-play, third-person shooter RPG mobile game from the Tom Clancy’s The Division franchise. And today it is showing off some of the gameplay for the title.

The game will be available for iOS and Android devices on the App Store and Google Play. And it means that one more triple-A game company believes that it’s worth a lot of investment — in this case, a couple of years of development — to take a triple-A game brand to mobile.

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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.