Our latest coverage of Overwatch 2.
It’s been a week since Overwatch 2 launched on Steam to overwhelmingly negative reviews and it looks like the review bombing isn’t going to stop anytime soon. As of this writing, the disappointing sequel has received over 124,000 reviews and has managed to claim the title of the worst reviewed game on Steam to date. Most of the reviews are [...]
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Overwatch 2’s launch on Steam and the release of its PvE-centric Invasion update ended up being a huge disappointment, to say the least. The game is being review bombed and has received “Overwhelmingly Negative” reviews on the platform from over 66,000 users less than 24 hours after it launched. Most complaints are aimed at the game’s allegedly “predatory” microtransactions, unrewarding [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment may have scrapped a large chunk of Overwatch 2’s PvE content, but players can still expect a smattering of new story missions every now and then. Invasion Story Missions will be making their way to the popular hero shooter tomorrow, August 10th, offering a brand-new co-op adventure for PvE fans starring John Cena as the mysterious Enigma. “With [...]
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As Overwatch 2’s playerbase continues its “sequential decline,” Blizzard is looking to release the hero shooter to a brand-new audience by bringing it to Steam. The game is set to launch on Valve’s digital platform on August 10th, allowing users to play the game outside of the Battle.net client. You’ll still need a Battle.net account to play though. Other titles [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has kicked off a new Overwatch 2 animated short series that delves into the popular hero shooter’s lore. The first episode, titled “Dawn,” revolves around the backstory of the Omnics, AI robots created by the Omnica Corporation who’ve since evolved into sentient beings. According to the game’s lore the Overwatch team was formed by the United Nations as [...]
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Overwatch 2’s game director, Aaron Keller, continues to delve into the hero shooter’s upcoming Invasion update in a new dev blog. This time around, he dives deeper into the upcoming Flashpoint PvP mode, offering insight into the Suravasa map’s design. In the dev blog, Keller calls attention to the Suravasa’s quasi-symmetrical layout, spawn points, and the fact that the first [...]
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The Overwatch 2 development team got together in a livestream earlier this week to talk about what’s coming to the hero shooter in its upcoming Invasion update. During the developer stream, the team highlighted several new features, including PvE story missions, event missions, hero mastery mode, character progression updates, and the Flashpoint PvP mode. Despite Blizzard’s decision to scrap individual [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has disabled yet another Overwatch 2 map as the frigid Antarctic Peninsula map, which was introduce in Season 3, joins the sunnier Paraiso push map on the sidelines. The reason behind Antarctic Peninsula’s temporary removal is a glitch that can be exploited to make everyone’s frame rate drop to unplayable levels. The glitch stems from an old bug [...]
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While Blizzard has certainly gone out of its way to make the next Overwatch 2 competitive season the best it can be, there’s still a lot of grumbling about the studio’s unpopular decision to scrap PvE content altogether. While we’ll likely never get to experience the promised individual hero missions that had players psyched when the sequel was first announced, [...]
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As the fourth season of Overwatch 2 draws to a close, players can expect to see another round of gameplay and balance adjustments when Season 5 begins next week. In a recent blog post, Game Director Aaron Keller outlined upcoming changes to several heroes and gameplay mechanics coming to the hero shooter when the next season begins. According to Keller, [...]
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