Overwatch News

During Ster's stream special guest Jeff Kaplan, lead designer on Overwatch, talked a bit about the future of the game and what player's can expect. Redditor /u/MattRix provided a summary of what was discussed over at the Overwatch subreddit. Without going over every detail, a few interesting points: New skins will be added before the end of summer. I'm glad [...]

Following a vague teaser last week, Blizzard has formally unveiled Overwatch's first new character since launch, Ana Amari. She is a Support-type sniper who wields a "Biotic Rifle" that heals allies and hurts enemies. Her other abilities are a sleep dart that knocks enemies unconscious until damaged, a "Biotic Bomb" that heals allies and hurts enemies, and a "Nano Boost" [...]

According to the Comic-Con 2016 International website Blizzard will be discussing the creative process behind Overwatch's "newest hero." Blizzard developers James Waugh (director of story & creative development), Michael Chu (senior designer, Overwatch), and Arnold Tsang (assistant art director, Overwatch) present a behind-the-scenes look into the creative process of developing the art, design, and story for Overwatch's newest hero. Q&A [...]

Think that Overwatch Competitive matches might be unfairly adjusting your skill rating? For once, you might actually be right. Yesterday, Game Director Jeff Kaplan posted the following message in a thread on the official forums about points being assigned incorrectly when playing on a Control map. Last night, though, we uncovered a bug that is causing skill rating to not [...]

Overwatch's Competitive Play finally releases today. Nobody knows the time yet. PC player are receiving the patch ahead of their console counterparts: Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Peasants can expect a patch sometime next week—no exact date has been revealed. Blizzard did state in the official forum announcement that they intend to release patches across all platforms on the same day [...]

Digital game researcher SuperDataResearch posted their worldwide digital games market update for May 2016 and the big winner was Overwatch, raking in $269 million since its May 24 release date. The report only covered the month of May, so that number should be up substantially since as Blizzard Entertainment released a statement earlier this month stating that the game has [...]