Ubisoft Cancels Free-to-Play Online Shooter The Division Heartland

Ubisoft announced that they had canceled the upcoming free-to-play online shooter The Division Heartland in their latest financial report. Instead of further developing the game, the company has decided to allocate resources to its other free-to-play title XDefiant that’s releasing in a few weeks, and Rainbow Six.

As part of Ubisoft’s efforts to streamline its operations and adapt to evolving market trends, there have been further reorganizations within the Global Publishing teams, both at the APAC region, that is now organized into three engagement hubs, and at the central level. Additionally, in line with the increased selectivity of its investments, Ubisoft has decided to stop development on The Division® Heartland and has redeployed resources to bigger opportunities such as XDefiant and Rainbow Six.

This news was further supported by a statement from Ubisoft to IGN.

After careful consideration, we have made the tough call to halt development on Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland, effective immediately. Our priority now is to support the talented team members at our Red Storm Entertainment studio, who will be transitioning to new projects within our company, including XDefiant and Rainbow Six.

The Division Heartland was first announced back in 2021 as it was being developed by Red Storm Entertainment as a looter shooter with PvE and PvP elements mixed in. The game had a series of beta tests but it never hit a point that Red Storm would ramp up to its eventual release as it experienced a series of delays.

Last year, Ubisoft released new information about the game, but since then the game has gone mostly silent in 2024.

Here’s a deep dive video of what Red Storm was working on.

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