Our latest coverage of Overwatch.
Full steam ahead into that time of the year, folks! The time of the year where skeletons, pumpkins, and ghosts fill pop culture for the next few weeks - the next victim to the Halloween Train is Overwatch! Yes, it has already been one year, and Halloween Terror is rearing its ugly head once more. Once again, Doctor Junkenstein will challenge [...]
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Overwatch has just announced on Twitter that the Halloween Terror event will be returning on October 10th. Unfortunately, aside from a brief 7-second teaser, Blizzard Entertainment is close-mouthed about the details of the event. But if it’s anything like last year’s Halloween event, we can probably expect new skins, sprays, voice lines, and other Halloween-themed cosmetics. Check out the teaser [...]
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Toxic players will always be a problem, more so for highly competitive games like Overwatch. Blizzard Entertainment’s widely-popular shooter, however, seems to be having more than their fair share of toxicity. Turns out even the devs are feeling harassed on the forums which prompted Game Director Jeff Kaplan to post a rather lengthy letter defending the Overwatch team. “We have [...]
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We’ve been to Winston’s home on the moon in Horizon Lunar Colony, now we’re taking a trip to the land down under with the new Overwatch map – Junkertown. The new map is now out on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. “Junkertown is an Escort map located in the harsh and unforgiving Australian Outback. Constructed from the remains of [...]
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Heroes of the Storm has managed to find it within their budget to hire two new characters! Probably promised with riches and fortune, Junkrat is coming to the Nexus sometime later this year! Ana Amari will be joining as well, though I'm not sure what they promised her...probably a spiel on how she is needed to save the world. Junkrat [...]
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Remember that tear-jerking Overwatch animated short that Blizzard released last month. That’s right, the one where we learn about Mei’s tragic origin story. Blizzard has just released a new video which gives fans a look at the work that went into making the short. “Mei’s story is actually one that we’ve really been excited to tell. We’re trying to find [...]
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Getting tired of the current Escort map selections in Overwatch? Well, a new escort map is coming to the game soon. Blizzard has just released a new Public Test Region patch which includes the new Junkertown escort map along with major balance and skill changes to Mercy and D.Va. Mercy will be getting a new Ultimate called Valkyrie which temporarily [...]
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Like I said, Blizzard Entertainment has pulled out all the stops when it comes to promotional videos. Aside from the Hearthstone animated short, Blizzard also revealed an Overwatch animated short during their Gamescom presentation called “Rise and Shine” starring the freeze-ray totting climatologist, Mei. “In "Rise and Shine”, Mei wakes up years after being cryogenically frozen to find that Overwatch [...]
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According to data gathered by Newzoo, players are now leaving Overwatch for the new battle royale shooter PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Numbers cite that 25% of the players that stopped playing Overwatch had switched over to PUBG, meanwhile CS:GO saw 21% of former players switching over to PUBG as well. In its data, Newzoo defined the term "churn rate" as referring to [...]
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Objective based gameplay helps built team spirit. But sometimes you just want to frag people. To help meet that itch, Overwatch is adding two new game modes: Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch. Both modes ditch payloads and control points, allowing players to focus on getting as many kills as possible. The free for all mode (Deathmatch) has a maximum of 8 [...]
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