The Division: Definitive Edition looks like it may be a thing, assuming this poster in Japan's the real deal

A poster advertising a definitive edition of Tom Clancy’s The Division appears to have been spotted by folks attending a Ubisoft-run eSports event in Japan. At least, that’s assuming this isn’t some elaborate ruse designed to draw in spies from other game studios, while only Jack Ryan can see what’s truly going on.

Snaps of the poster from attendees of FPS Day – an event in Tokyo currently hosting grand final of Rainbow Six 6 Siege’s APAC cup – began to pop up over the weekend. There’s one below, and here are three more.

According to VGC, the event’s set to host 10th anniversary panel for The Division today. I’ve reached out to Ubisoft in case the company fancy providing definitive proof of this definitive edition prior to any definitive announcements they might have planned.

Since The Division’s release in 2016, it’s been followed by a sequel, with The Division 3 having been announced back in 2023 but had gone pretty quiet until fairly recently.

Brendy (RPS in peace) expressed an appreciation for The Division in his near decade old review, despite the shooter having plenty of hangups and annoyances which could get on your wick:

Reading this, you might think I have mixed feelings. Really, I have mostly-good feelings. I have all the same problems with The Division as I had with its closest bedmate, Destiny. The transparency of its bit-by-bit progression system, the gating of areas by level, the sponginess of its enemies, its reliance on scrubbing the map clean of icons, all designed to make you grind first and think later. And yet I enjoy it a lot more than the latter.

I think this is all down to the setting and the fine detail of the streets. In Destiny, you get Peter Dinklage nattering on about “the light” and “the darkness” and any other fantasy sci-fi cliché you can pull out of your cryo tube. In The Division you get enemies with motives, a world with a reason for being the way it is, and bosses with some semblance of character. I’m not saying there are no clichés (a virus has run amok). It’s just that they are of a much higher quality.

We’ll have to see if this a case of loose lips sinking the secretness of a Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine-level repackaging of a near ten year old shooter, or some sort of goof.