Our latest coverage of Overwatch.
An Overwatch trailer in French has dropped on the YouTube and leaked the game's next big event: Insurrection, a co-op PvE mission. Follow Tracer into King's Row on her first mission as part of Overwatch. The event follows up from a digital comic released last week, titled "Uprising." The video below was uploaded thanks to someone at the Playstation team [...]
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Overwatch's universe expands a bit with the release of a new digital comic, available to read for free, called Uprising. It's a neat medium to learn more about the backgrounds of the game's heroes. And in this issue we see a younger Tracer, still a cadet in training, and learn who inspired her famous catchphrase. The comic seemingly ties into [...]
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The official Overwatch Twitter account is teasing something that's about to happen in the hero shooter on April 11th, something called "King's Row Uprising." What could it be? Blizzard loves to play game so we won't have any information beyond pure speculation until the day of. Considering the tease is of classified data "entered into record 7 years ago," with [...]
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The Overwatch World Cup is returning in less than a month for its second year, a tournament where countries battle for glory and bragging rights. Overwatch World Cup is a global, community-driven competition between nations (not just teams). Viewers vote for their nation’s representatives, who will select the strongest team from that nation. Players that want their country to participate [...]
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Last September, Blizzard Entertainment announced that it would be retiring the Battle.net moniker and replacing it with generic "Blizzard" branding for all of its products. At the time, the company stated that its reason for doing so was that "there’s been occasional confusion and inefficiencies related to having two separate identities under which everything falls—Blizzard and Battle.net." It's a pretty [...]
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Overwatch's newest hero Orisa has gone live—which also means there's a new trailer to watch below—in all versions of the game, but the robotic tank will not be available in Competitive Play. Principal Designer Scott Mercer took to the forums to say: When patch 1.9 releases tomorrow, Orisa will not initially be available for Competitive Play. We want to give [...]
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Blizzard has a long-standing history of including map editors in its games. The inclusion of said map editors even spawned multiple genres that are commonplace today, such as MOBAs and tower defense games. Given that, it's no surprise that Overwatch players are increasingly curious to know if Overwatch will ever receive its own map editor. Fortunately, yesterday, Game Director Jeff [...]
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Blizzard is bringing the banhammer and currently seeking a hefty $8.5 million in damages against German-based hack distributor and creator "Bossland GmbH". The ongoing lawsuit, first filed by Blizzard in California on July 1st, 2016 - accuses Bossland of trafficking "circumvention tools" and copyright infringement under the DMCA, as well as unfair competition from the profits of these violations. Despite [...]
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At long last, Blizzard announced today that Overwatch's latest hero, the robotic Orisa, will be going live on March 21st. The announcement was made in the description for the New Hero Preview video embedded below. Orisa's abilities are as follows. Her main weapon is the "Fusion Driver," which is "an automatic gun with good range and accuracy even at a [...]
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While a Gold medal in the Olympics is a matter of national pride, a gold medal in Overwatch isn't much more than a participation award. The currently breakdown of competitive tiers are a mockery of the term 'competitive'. We truly live in an upside down world when someone in the bottom 19th percentile places in "Gold". Competitive Season Skill Rating [...]
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