Games The Shop the leading games specialist retailer in India successfully concluded with the Midnight Launch for the most anticipated game, Tom Clancy’s The Division. It was held at 12.00 PM in the midnight at two of their specialist stores in Mumbai – One at the Oberoi Mall & the other at Hamleys, High Street Phoenix. The Midnight launch beheld over hundreds of gamers collectively at both the locations. All the merrier fans were queued up at the stores to pick up their game copy. As the clock ticked 12, the fans picked up their game and posed for the shutterbugs excitingly. And for more news and reviews, keep checking back at Gaming Central.
Games The Shop, the leading games specialist retailer in India announced today, the midnight launch for the most talked about game– Tom Clancy’s The Division. The Midnight launch will take place at two locations in Mumbai. It will be held on 7th March 2016 starting from 11.30 PM onwards at both the venues. Venue 1: Oberoi Mall, at the Games The Shop store, Goregaon, Mumbai. Venue 2: High Street Phoenix (SIS) Level – 1, Inside – Hamleys the toy store High Street Phoenix, Lower Parel, Mumbai. Tom Clancy’s The Division is an upcoming online open world third-person shooter role-playing video game by Ubisoft which is based on survival as a key element. Players will delve into the story that goes on as a devastating pandemic swept through New York City, and one by one, basic services fail....
It’s the last month of the first quarter of 2016, and the big games are starting to roll out. Some already have, but here’s what you can look forward to in March 2016. Far Cry Primal Platform: PC | Release Date: 1 March 2016 Far Cry Primal is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Ubisoft. It was released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on February 23, 2016, and is now released for Microsoft Windows on March 1, 2016. The game is set in the Stone Age, and revolves around the story of Takkar, who starts off as an unarmed hunter and rises to become the leader of a tribe. Black Desert Online Platform: PC | Release Date: 3 March 2016 Black Desert is an upcoming sandbox-oriented massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Korean video game developer Pearl ...
Tom Clancy’s The Division uses advance technologies to create a fully immersive New York City to life on the PC. Join Tom Clancy’s The Division’s Technical Director, Anders Holmquist, as he takes you through NNVIDIA’s GameWorks Technologies featured in the PC version of the game including HBAO (Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion) and PCSS (Percentage Closer Soft Shadows). Tom Clancy’s The Division is a revolutionary next-gen experience that brings the RPG into a modern military setting for the first time. In the wake of a devastating pandemic that sweeps through New York City, basic services fail one by one, and without access to food or water, the city quickly descends into chaos. As an agent of The Division, you’ll specialize, modify, and level up your gear, weapons, and skills to take back...
Ubisoft released Collapse, a realistic simulator that illustrates how quickly a weaponized virus can spread, leading to the collapse of society, as depicted in the upcoming online open-world action RPG Tom Clancy’s The Division. Collapse is an online interactive experience that uses real data to create an immersive and personalised projection of the end of society. The user (you) is patient zero of this highly infectious virus and has to make several choices that will have consequences on the spread of the pandemic. Based on Open Street Map, NASA open source data and IATA Flight routes, with input from emergency risk specialists and public service employees, Collapse features more than 3800 cities worldwide, home of 95% of the population. The user can compare different scenarios by choosin...
Ubisoft announced that 6.4 million players participated in the Beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division, making it the biggest beta ever for a new IP on current generation platforms. The Division launches for PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system, and Xbox One and Windows PC on March 8th. On average, players spent 4 hours and 52 minutes as an activated sleeper agent, journeying through The Division’s pandemic-stricken New York City. More than one third of that time was spent in The Division’s unique and challenging player-versus-player (PVP) environment, the Dark Zone, with more than 2.5 million players going rogue. The Beta was an opportunity for Ubisoft to test its online infrastructure as well as changes and updates made to the game. It also served as a chance for millions of players to...
PC gamers have again been given the short end of the stick, or as is in this case, the lower end of textures and pixels, all because their console counterparts (more like underlings) were not up to the task. While gamers have often cried out about cross-platform triple-A games having its graphics “dumbed down” for consoles, the PC version’s fidelity apparently lowered to maintain some kind of parity, but it’s not often you get confirmation of this actually happening. In a recent interview with YouTubers Team Epiphany, a Ubisoft developer spoke to them about the visuals of the game, and addresses the issue of downgrade, and if it was to maintain parity with consoles. “It is definitely a [factor],” says the nameless Ubisoft developer. “But one good t...
According to an interview with a developer from Ubisoft Massive, the console versions of Tom Clancy’s The Division will give the player the option to disable some of the lighting effects so as to get better framerates. The interview is available on Team Epiphany’s YouTube channel, recorded during The Division New York Event. The developer said, “It’s actually great that we’ve given the option to disable certain lighting aspects to improve frame rate in the console version, which I don’t know if any other game does that. So if you want to choose frame rate over, like, visuals you can if you want.” This will surely raise some concerns among console gamers. It’s not that this is the first time graphics options have been presented to gamers, however these options ...
In latest news, Ubisoft sees The Division as a franchise and plans on building it up for years to come. The associate creative director for The Division, Julian Gerighty had to say: “I think Ubisoft sees the Division as a franchise. I just want to get this game out and support this game, and really focus on building this experience over the next few years. Because, you know, today you can’t just release a game and forget about it. This is an online enabled game. We know people are going to be playing hours and hours of content and they’re wanting to be entertained for more. So, we’re going to do free updates, we’re going to do DLCs. There’s a whole content plan for at least 12 months after launch.” It would be interesting to see what kind of free updates and DLC’s are we going to get...
Today, Ubisoft revealed early details on the post-launch plans for Tom Clancy’s the Division including what players can expect in the Season Pass. As an online open world RPG, the game is designed to provide a max-level experience and keep players entertained after the main story arc is completed. The development team has a complete post-launch plan to keep the experience fresh for all players, including several free updates, new features and functionality, as well as 3 major expansions to provide a renewed gameplay experience after launch. The free updates to be released for all players will add new game modes such as challenging group-oriented operations to test players’ abilities in co-op mode and win unique rewards. The three paid expansions are included in the Season Pass and will be ...
If you’re an Xbox One owner, then you can get into the beta for The Division. PS4 and PC gamers will have to wait a few more hours. In the meanwhile, you can check out these new screenshots. Mind you, these are from the Xbox One version. So be sure to come back here later to see how the PC and PS4 versions stand up. For more news, reviews and information, be sure to check out Gaming Central.