Overwatch 2 News

Overwatch 2 will be receiving a huge game-changing update when Season 9 begins next week. The update will not only throw a gigantic wrench into the current meta but will drastically change the overall combat dynamics. Apart from the addition of the highly criticized self-healing abilities, Season 9 will also buff the health pool of all 39 heroes in the [...]

Overwatch 2 is returning to the esports scene after Blizzard Entertainment announced the end of its long-running Overwatch League a few days before Christmas. The studio has now partnered with Saudi Arabian video game and esports company Savvy Game Group to usher in the next chapter of the hero shooter’s professional tournament series. The new Overwatch Championship Series is a [...]

Blizzard Entertainment’s recent announcement that it will be adding passive healing skills for tank and DPS heroes in Overwatch 2 hasn’t gone over well with the hero shooter’s community. Game director Aaron Keller now admits that it was a “mistake” to reveal the change without the context of the other changes coming in Season 9. According to the original dev [...]

Blizzard Entertainment is throwing a gigantic wrench into Overwatch 2’s core gameplay with the launch of Season 9 later this month. The proverbial wrench will come in the form of self-healing abilities for tank and DPS heroes, a first in the seven-year history of the hero shooter. “In Season 9, both Tank and Damage heroes will get a modified, tuned-down [...]

Overwatch 2 players will be welcoming a brutish new gatling-gun toting hero when Mauga officially makes his in-game debut tomorrow as Season 8: Call of the Hunt begins. The tank hero was first showcased at BlizzCon 2023 last month but will finally be coming to the popular hero shooter to help his team burst through enemy lines and mow them [...]

Blizzard Entertainment is paving the way for the launch of its Overwatch 2 x LE SSERAFIM collaboration event later today with the official trailer for the event. Apparently, D.Va, Tracer, Brigitte, Kiriko, and Sombra are huge fans of the K-pop girl group and will stop at nothing to watch them perform live. Not even Junkrat is immune to the girl [...]

Now that Season 7 is in full swing in Overwatch 2, Blizzard Entertainment is once again planning to shake up the season’s dynamics to keep things fresh and fine-tune some of the changes introduced this season. Surpisingly, no changes will be made to Sombra, despite complaints about her Season 7 rework being either underpowered or overpowered. According to Blizzard, data [...]

Overwatch 2 Season 7 is set to begin next week featuring the new Polynesian-themed control map and the Rise of Darkness Halloween event. The new event will offer plenty of spooky seasonal goodies to unlock including a variety of costumes to help you get into the Halloween spirit, one of which is a Lillith skin for Moira. More information about [...]

Blizzard Entertainment recently unveiled a new Polynesian-themed control map for Overwatch 2 during the Overwatch League Grand Final this weekend. The new map, dubbed Samoa, is described as a tropical paradise with three distinct control points: a beachside village, a downtown urban location, and the inside of a volcano. During the map preview, Blizzard offered insight into the map’s design, [...]

The past few weeks have undoubtedly been challenging and disappointing for the Overwatch 2 development team as Steam users continue to pummel the hero shooter with negative reviews. While the Invasion update’s story missions seemed to have garnered reluctant praise from the community, the rest of the update isn’t being received quite as well. Game Director Aaron Keller, however, is [...]