The Division 2 Warlords of New York expansion brings back Aaron Keener as your enemy.
The Division 2 Warlords of New York expansion brings back Aaron Keener as your enemy.
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Why Ubisoft took us back to New York in The Division 2’s Warlord expansion

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

Ubisoft’s new Warlords of New York expansion takes Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 back to New York. While The Division (our doomsday saviors) was busy in Washington, D.C., in the main gameplay of The Division 2, the villains were running wild in post-pandemic New York, the scene of the original The Division. So now you have to take it back.

Warlords of New York has a narrative focused on a rogue agent, Aaron Keener, who was the villain of The Division. Keener has custody of a virologist who can make the virus — released via contaminated money on a Black Friday — even deadlier. You have to go after the scientist on Coney Island in episode 3 of The Division 2.

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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.