Start preloading The Division open beta now

Ubisoft's The Division is in open beta this week and if you're planning on giving it a go why not start downloading now

The Division open beta is almost here, launching on Xbox One on the 18th of February and a day later on PS4 and PC. It brings a host of fixes to the open world action RPG as well as a major new playable mission which will unlock the tech section of your home base.

The open beta doesn't arrive for a little while yet but you can make sure you're ready for action by downloading the game files right now on Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Ubisoft has been pretty clever about this too - if you were in the closed beta you'll only have to grab around 1 gig of extra data with the new content. If you didn't get into that earlier version of the game or are playing on a different platform, you will have to download it all again with the files running around 27 gigs.