Even though the Assassin’s Creed film was critically panned, Ubisoft Motion Pictures is moving ahead with its cinematic adaptation of Tom Clancy’s The Division, the MMO shooter from Ubisoft Massive. The company has announced Stephen Gaghan as director and writer for the film, which is not a bad choice considering his Academy Award winning work as writer for Traffic. He also directed and wrote Syriana and has Gold coming out later this month.

Gaghan stated that, “I’m excited to work with Ubisoft Motion Pictures and collaborate with their team at Massive Entertainment to bring The Division to the big screen, they’re great guys, exceptionally creative, and willing to take risks.

“The game has been an enormous success, in large part due to the visual landscape they created, their vision of a mid-apocalyptic Manhattan. It’s immersive, wonderfully strange, and yet familiar, filled with possibilities. It’s also remarkable to be able to collaborate with Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal early in the process. We all feel the story Ubisoft created is more relevant than ever.”

Currently, Ubisoft Massive is busy working on the last expansion for The Division, titled Last Stand, along with update 1.6. More information on both is due soon so stay tuned.

Salivating at the thought of playing Tom Clancy’s The Division with only a few more hours left to go? Well, depending on where you live, you might be getting in before other people.

Ubisoft has already revealed that The Division servers will be going live at 12:01 AM AEDT on March 8th for Australia and 12:01 AM ET for the United States. However, it seems that UK servers will be live from 1 PM GMT on March 7th. It seems this will only be for physical versions of the game – digital versions will still need to wait until 12:01 AM as per each region’s local time.

Pre-loading is already available across all platforms, so whether you’re playing on Steam, UPlay, PS4 or Xbox One, you should have the digital version of the game pre-loaded by now. As soon as servers go live, you’ll be able to experience Tom Clancy’s The Division.

Though the closed and open beta for the same have been positive, there will be no early reviews for The Division due to servers going live on launch day itself. What are your thoughts on the game thus far? Let us know in the comments below.