Our latest coverage of Overwatch.
Remember that mobile Overwatch clone Legend of Titan we covered a month ago that is being developed by the Chinese company Xi'an Vulcan Network Technology Co.? There's in-game footage now, which you can see below. The video shows what is very clearly almost an exact clone of Overwatch. All of the characters have the same abilities and weapons. Most of [...]
Read more
This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Overwatch League of Legends NA LCS Recap and Standings The third week of the NA LCS has finished! Day 1: Cloud9 vs TSM (1-2) Liquid vs [...]
Read more
While it's not indicative of active users at any one time, Blizzard's charming team shooter Overwatch has garnered another three million players since announcing seven million players a week and a half ago for a total of ten million players less than a month after release. The news comes in the form of a tweet that you can see below. [...]
Read more
Blizzard has released patch 1.0.4 for Overwatch, aiming to balance McCree and Widowmaker. McCree's recovery time has been reduced and so has his alternate fire bullet damage. While Widowmaker's sniper fire base damage has been reduced from 15 to 12 and her headshot multiplier has been buffed from 2X to 2.5. It's no surprise. It seemed like McCree and Widowmaker showed up in [...]
Read more
Overwatch (Again) - Sunday Funday Round 51Watch this video on YouTube Overwatch Sunday Funday Gameplay Video This week the MMOs.com crew took a lot at Overwatch for the second time. Matt just bought the game so we decided to do another run. We've all been playing it a decent bit on our own too, but despite the experience we got dunked for [...]
Read more
This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Overwatch League of Legends NA LCS Recap and Standings The second week of the NA LCS has finished! Day 1: NRG Esports vs Immortals (1-2) [...]
Read more
A common question asked with any new multiplatform release is "will there be cross-platform play?" More often than not, the answer is simply "no," but the tweet below shows that Blizzard hasn't discounted the idea of cross-platform play in Overwatch entirely. Instead, the company will "keep an eye" on the possibility of cross-platform play between PlayStation 4 and Xbox One [...]
Read more
Blizzard announced today via press release that it has teamed up with Facebook to bring Facebook login integration to its games, as well as use "Facebook’s Live API in order to create its own 'Go Live' streaming functionality for its games." The new set of features resulting from the partnership will be available in the following titles: Diablo III, Hearthstone, [...]
Read more
Blizzard has announced that, just over a week after release, Overwatch has broken the 7 million player mark. Those players have played a total of 119 million hours for an average of 17 hours per player. They have swapped heroes 326 million times and delivered 11 million payloads. Blizzard is calling Overwatch's launch "one of the most successful global game [...]
Read more
It feels like I hear the same question every time a new buy-to-play multiplayer-only FPS is released: “When is this going free-to-play?” So far, with the exception of Team Fortress 2, the answer to that question is always a resounding “never”—not that the fact is stopping people from asking when Overwatch is going free-to-play. I’ve begun to wonder if there isn’t [...]
Read more