{"id":85027,"date":"2016-01-06T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=85027"},"modified":"2016-01-06T14:15:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T12:15:36","slug":"the-division-to-be-made-available-for-pre-load-on-steam-come-march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/85027-the-division-to-be-made-available-for-pre-load-on-steam-come-march-1","title":{"rendered":"The Division to be made available for pre-load on Steam, come March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know that a good deal of you are excited for <em>Tom Clancy\u2019s The Division<\/em>, and for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>Even if Ubisoft\u2019s recent history with new IPs has been spotty, to say the least, <em>The Division\u2019s<\/em> got an interesting mix of elements from RPGs, cooperative shooters, dystopic survival games and more going for it.<\/p>\n<p>Its proprietary Snowdrop engine renders massive, stark environments in glorious detail, and the potential for a mix of cooperation and betrayal is certainly interesting. And it\u2019s not all that far off from release either.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9MGrnvx8NiE\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to release on March 8<sup>th<\/sup> for PC, PS4 and Xbox One, we\u2019ve now heard news that the game will be made available for pre-loading on March 1<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The info comes from Steam Database (Steam DB), who\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/365590\/info\/\" target=\"_blank\">listed its pre-release<\/a> date as March 1<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thedivision_steamDB-listing.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85029\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-85029\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thedivision_steamDB-listing.png\" alt=\"thedivision_steamDB listing\" width=\"881\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thedivision_steamDB-listing.png 881w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/thedivision_steamDB-listing-768x710.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 881px) 100vw, 881px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Knowing that Steam regularly puts placeholders in place, this may well be one, but it\u2019s close enough to the game\u2019s release for us to believe it, so we\u2019ll wait for PSN and Xbox Live to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this info doesn\u2019t clarify when we\u2019ll get a whack at <em>The Division<\/em> through its announced beta.<\/p>\n<p>Beta is something we\u2019re really hoping to get a crack at, if only because we want to give Ubisoft Massive the best possible chance of correctly honing the game to perfection.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot to <em>The Division<\/em>, like large 8-man raids; cooperative as well as PvP gameplay; abilities and levelling up; a large array of equipment and unlockables; and a bunch that has yet to be revealed to us \u2013 that\u2019s a lot to potentially go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>For those who\u2019d like a fairly detailed breakdown of a lot of what the community at large knows about <em>The Division<\/em>, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ArekkzG\" target=\"_blank\">Arekkz Gaming\u2019s<\/a> coverage below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/78BMuFzMkns\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/85005-rise-of-the-tomb-raiders-hardware-requirements-plus-some-4k-screenshots.html\">Rise of the Tomb Raider\u2019s hardware requirements, plus some 4K screenshots<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/84999-oculus-rift-available-for-pre-order-tomorrow-january-6th.html\">Oculus Rift available for pre-order tomorrow, January 6th<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/84987-the-most-powerful-all-in-one-pc-on-the-market-maingears-alpha-34.html\">The most powerful All-In-One PC on the market: Maingear\u2019s Alpha 34<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/84975-microsoft-may-remove-disc-drive-to-create-slim-xbox-one.html\">Microsoft may remove disc drive to create slim Xbox One<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if Ubisoft\u2019s recent history with new IPs has been spotty, to say the least, The Division\u2019s got an interesting mix of elements going for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":85031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1969,15397,1239,16841,16843,1853,11842,733,3068,10065],"class_list":["post-85027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-playstation-4","tag-pre-load","tag-pre-release","tag-playstation4","tag-tom-clancys-the-division","tag-ubisoft","tag-ubisoft-massive","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}