Julian Gerighty, a long-time key cog at Large Leisure, has introduced that he is departing the Ubisoft-owned studio after 12 years to go and work on Battlefield at EA. His departure swiftly follows Ubisoft revealing earlier this week that they are planning to put off employees at Large, with a voluntary redundancy course of late final yr reportedly having not resulted in sufficient departures to stave off this bloodletting.
In the meantime, the publishers have opted to take the chance of Gerighty’s departure to reassure of us that The Division collection is simply positive.
“Whereas we’ll miss him, his mark will stay on at Large and we’ll proceed to deliver the world he’s been a part of creating to our gamers for years to return,” Ubisoft wrote in said statement. “For our gamers, don’t fear, Brokers. Our groups who constructed this world with Julian are nonetheless right here, carrying it ahead with an bold, unchanged dedication for the longer term with The Division 2, The Division 2: Survivors, The Division Resurgence and The Division 3.”
“It is time for me to hold up my go bag (preserving the watch) as I am going on one other grand journey,” Gerighty wrote in his personal departure tweet. “The Division future burns vibrant, and I am unable to wait so that you can uncover what the groups have been engaged on.”
In keeping with Ubisoft, veteran Division builders Yannick Banchereau and Mathias Karlson stay creative administrators on The Division 2 and The Division 3 respectively, whereas The Division creative director Magnus Jansen is now helming The Division 2’s extraction mode Survivors.
The Division 3 was announced back in 2023, however phrase in had had gone fairly quiet till Gerighty recently said in an look that the New Recreation+ Showcase that he reckoned it’s going to “have as huge an influence” as the primary Division recreation.
In the meantime, a poster noticed at a Ubisoft-run esports occasion in Japan earlier this week prompted hypothesis {that a} definitive version of that first entry into the Clancy-filled collection is perhaps about to be revealed. As of writing, no such announcement’s been forthcoming.
