Our latest coverage of Overwatch.
Last year, Overwatch celebrated the Olympic Games with a "Games" event of its own - the Overwatch Summer Games. Though the Olympic Games run every 2 years - alternating between Summer and Winter games - many players were left wondering if the Summer Games event would be coming back. Well, Blizzard quickly answered that question - yes. Yes it is. [...]
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Activision Blizzard reported earnings today and surprise surprise, the company made A LOT of money. The company recorded $1.63B in revenue and net income (profit) of $243M for the quarter ending June 30, 2017. These aren't record numbers, but they are the highest revenues for the company for a quarter with no major game launches. More importantly though, the company [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment is gearing up to take the Overwatch professional eSports scene to the next level with the upcoming Overwatch League. And, because the League is still under development, all Overwatch players of legal age are now free agents that can be signed by any of the League teams, from eSports veterans to relatively unknown superstars. Yes, that means you, [...]
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Whether you’re playing a MOBA, an FPS, a survival game, or any type of game for that matter, there’s no shortage of toxic players who just have to ruin the fun for everyone. Overwatch players will be happy to know that Blizzard Entertainment is implementing stricter measures to keep toxic players in check, which, the studio says, is in accordance [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has been dropping hints over the past few months on who the next Overwatch hero will be. Turns out that the rumors are indeed true. The studio has officially confirmed that Doomfist will be the next character to join Overwatch’s ranks. “Doomfist’s cybernetics make him a highly-mobile, powerful frontline fighter. In addition to dealing ranged damage with his [...]
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Overwatch may not be all sunshine and flowers. While Overwatch has surpassed 30 Million registered players, the game's competitive scene hasn't seen much growth. An article from Eurogamer talks about how there were many small-scale LAN tournaments, and online competitions that offered a decent sum of cash for Overwatch teams to test their mettle in a professional setting. However, since Blizzard [...]
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Blizzard is looking to kill two birds with one stone with their upcoming patches for Overwatch and Hearthstone, by implementing changes in the loot systems in both games to reduce the frequency of duplicate items received. In Overwatch's latest developer update, Jeff Kaplan explains that the reduction of duplicates coming to the lootbox system should be "immediately evident and extremely [...]
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Remember that new lunar assault map that we told you about a few weeks ago? Well, it’s finally up and running in the latest Overwatch update. Players can now fight it out in the Horizon Lunar Colony complex, a mostly indoor map that subtly tells the backstory of one of the most iconic characters in the game, the super-intelligent gorilla [...]
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Only just recently, Overwatch China had released the data on the probabilities of their lootboxes. This was in accordance with the "lootbox law" that had come into effect on May 1st, 2017 in China, a new law which mandates all game publishers to publicly announce the probabilities on lootboxes and/or items with randomly generated properties. However, Overwatch China seems to [...]
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“Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.” That’s exactly what Blizzard has in store for Overwatch players with their upcoming Assault map – Horizon Lunar Colony. The Horizon Lunar Colony was where the genetically-engineered gorilla, Winston, was raised. Blizzard writes: “Horizon Lunar Colony is an Assault map set in a scientific base on the moon. Built [...]
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