Ubisoft is dropping the Tom Clancy identify from their upcoming free-to-play multiplayer area shooter XDefiant. The sport, which at the moment options maps and customizable characters from three Tom Clancy franchises – Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, and The Division – will maintain these traits regardless of the brand new shortened identify.
Why take away Tom Clancy from the sport’s identify?
Ubisoft has now determined they are going to be including extra factions to the sport, this time from exterior of the Tom Clancy universe. Whereas these factions weren’t detailed in the present day, they are going to be launched to gamers by way of the subsequent spherical of closed testing because of happen imminently. As such, the workforce has determined to take away the Tom Clancy branding from the sport’s identify and shorten it to XDefiant.
The choice to take away Tom Clancy from the sport’s identify doesn’t seem like a latest one. In a weblog revealing the outcomes of the primary closed testing of XDefiant again in September, the workforce talked about they’d be addressing participant suggestions on the Tom Clancy branding, amongst different issues. Many have been sad with the affiliation with Tom Clancy regardless of the sport feeling utterly in contrast to any Tom Clancy sport that had gone earlier than it. It looks as if that suggestions might have been taken to coronary heart.
The subsequent spherical of closed testing will solely happen on PC. Ubisoft began to ship out invitations to the checks in the present day, March 15. These excited about participating can enroll on the game’s website. Future closed testing will happen on different platforms, together with consoles.
In different information, EA won’t be holding an EA Play Live event this summer season. As an alternative, they are going to be revealing extra about their upcoming titles when the time is true for every of them individually. Elsewhere, console inventory shortages have meant that the Xbox Sequence X|S consoles have outsold the PlayStation 5 in Europe for the primary time since they launched in 2020.
