overwatch Archives

In case you were hoping for something cute from Overwatch during the holiday season, you're in luck! Blizzard has released a brand new webcomic for the series, featuring Mei and Winston in a bit of a winter fight called "Yeti Hunt" It's short and cute and doesn't really have any backstory going into it; it's[...]

There's a smaller sale that includes the big titles like PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds, The Division, and Grand Theft Auto Online. GOG's sale is mostly focusing on Telltale games today, but also has Battlechasers: Night War, The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, Absolver, and even the complete Icewind Dale III. In terms of publisher sales, Square Enix and Blizzard have some decent deals going on. Blizzard's winter sale nets[...]

Game director Jeff Kaplan has said that movement changes are coming to Overwatch which will affect every hero in the game. Speaking on the forums, Kaplan said the changes have come to PTR and were put in place to fix a couple heroes, but in the end, it will affect everyone The changes don't seem massive,[...]

As an Overwatch player and fan, I have respect for Jeff Kaplan for two reasons First, he talks like a cool gamer in every respect and tries not to be standard "corporate dude" trying to act cool And second, to put it bluntly, Kaplan doesn't take shit from anyone! If you frequent the Overwatch forums,[...]

None are as anticipated as Overwatch's though, which is gearing up for its second season Last year, we got a whole lot of skins and a Mei centric mode, and… well, I hope you liked it because we are getting it again. Winter Wonderland is now live in the game, bringing in skins, emotes, sprays, map makeovers[...]

Overwatch has had a toxicity problem since day one I suppose that is nothing surprising for an online game, but it has been around for long enough now that everyone thinks they're an expert with a deep understanding of the meta It can get heated when a discussion (flaming) happens around suggesting (demanding) players switch heroes. Thankfully, the game[...]

A little bit of moving news in your gaming news this weekend, as the latest trailer for Ready Player One shows Tracer from Overwatch as one of the playable characters people have in the global game Oasis You can find her at 2:05, but depending on the kind of fan you are, this is either[...]

Oh hey look at that murderous doll Chucky taking down some ioi dudes Parzival and Art3mis in the Delorean (the Ecto-88) during the battle Parzival reaches towards what we think may be the nuke held by Nolan Surrento's avatar A grand explosion during what we think is the attack and defense of the third and final gate. Lara Croft[...]

Overwatch League has a lot of people pretty excited While not without its detractors, I think most people in the eSports scene are at least intrigued to see how it works out We are set to get our first taste over the next 24 hours or so, too. While we are still five weeks out from[...]

Back at PAX West, I came across a few people wearing this awesome looking Overwatch army jacket I had to have one, but only one shop had them at the con and it was a size too small Thankfully, Blizzard recently restocked their supply and I was able to snag one for review from them! The[...]

Blizzard has just released a patch on the PTR, and Principle Designer Geoff Goodman took the time to outline them on the Overwatch Forums Ub the post he let on what had been immediately fixed but also added that even since putting out the patch on PTR, more have been figured out. Wall slamming should be much[...]

Image courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment The Overwatch League is set to start its preseason on December 6th It will be the first look we get at the ambitious competition, which kicks off properly in early 2018 However, the league is only the tip of the iceberg for the game's competitive plans. In a post, Blizzard has outlined the structure[...]

credit//Blizzard Recently, there was word circulating that Overwatch's Moira had already seen a nerf just a few days after going online In the latest version of the PTR, some noted that her right click attack made it much harder to target characters Interestingly though, this change didn't come up in the patch notes, leaving many to[...]

Overwatch League is starting its pre-season on December 6th, and there is a lot of expectation on the Seoul Dynasty South Korea and eSports just go together, and as shown during previous competitions and Overwatch World Cups, their players really look a cut above the rest While many players from the region have gone to[...]

When they remember that they're not actually a Tenno, they will thank you. Credit// Blizzard Entertainment If they're super into Overwatch, you can always get them some prime loot from Blizzard Seriously, 50 loot boxes will set you back $39.99 USD Or you can buy them Overwatch merch If they've somehow made it to the holidays of 2017 and[...]

KSV has acquired the franchising rights for the Overwatch League's Seoul metropolitan and put together a championship caliber team building around the former Lunatic Hai roster KSV's Heroes of the Storm team recently won the World Championship along with the the $500K first place prize at BlizzCon 2017 KSV's newly formed PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) team[...]

Overwatch has seen a lot of changes of late After the infamous Mercy buff, the game has seen drastic changes to the meta From balances, subsequent re-balances, to the recently released character Moira, there is certainly an air of newness around the game And it's about to get even more content The Blizzard World map,[...]

For a loner, Green Arrow — like Batman — sure has a big extended family. But, according to Amell in a conversation with TVLine, the OTA is going to be a big story point: "In an upcoming episode we discover that there's a fracture within the superhero group, which threatens to split Team Arrow down the middle[...]

Recently I got a couple of cool items from Blizzard in relation to Overwatch One of those was a set of Backpack Hangers, an item I wasn't quite expecting and wasn't quite sure what I would make of them But hey, it's Overwatch gear, so of course, I'm going to dig in and check it out! I[...]

A few days ago, Blizzard officially added Moira to the Overwatch roster, making her one of the quickest additions from PTR to the main game But she wasn't the only update thrown into the mix as Ana, Lúcio, Mercy, and Winston all got some changes in the latest update You can see the character notes[...]

A bit of an oddity worth taking note on in the Overwatch community as Blizzard has stepped up and taken down many of what it describes are "negative players" from the Asia servers, specifically for trolling and cheating In the translated version of this post on their forums a week ago, "After detailed and rigorous verification[...]

Less than four days after being revealed to the public at BlizzCon, Overwatch developers have officially added Moira to the PTR servers for players to try her out and see how she plays Judging by the forums alone, most fans are already high on the character and were hoping it wouldn't be a long delay[...]

Over the weekend at Blizzcon, Jeff Kaplan and art director Arnold Tsang helped present some of the scrapped heroes from Overwatch, including one we're super jealous isn't in the game Check out this Jetpack Cat concept art! Holy crap! Would that be fun to run around and shoot people as! You can also see some other designs including[...]

The Overwatch World Cup provided some interesting moments throughout the brackets, from France trouncing China, to team Canada edging out all of their victories all the way to the finals But in the end, the most predictable outcome we could have told you came true, as South Korea's team dominated the tournament to win the cup[...]

Before the finals of the Overwatch World Cup, which we'll get to later tonight, Blizzard revealed the special skins for all of the Overwatch League teams And much like sports jerseys, we're sure fans from specific cities and countries will want to get their hands on these for their own purposes Whether or not Blizzard[...]

The internet is buzzing about Moira being added to the Overwatch roster, even though only those at BlizzCon have had a chance to play as her an experiment with her abilities For those of us impatiently waiting for her to hit the PTR servers, we got a nice treat in this brief backstory behind the[...]

A little something from the Overwatch developers as they have created a new hybrid map that will probably spark the interest of many Blizzard fans The new map is called "Blizzard World", and it will be a hybrid between payload and assault The entire park features rides and attractions catered to Blizzard fans as there[...]

The big announcement coming out of Overwatch was the addition of a brand new hero in Moira Blizzard sent out an extremely brief bio describing her as a "life-draining geneticist" who, as per the video at the bottom, has the ability to sap energy from her opponents, heal multiple players at once, teleport, and use her[...]

As part of their BlizzCon opening ceremonies, the Overwatch crew presented a brand new animated short featuring Reinhardt You might wanna grab the tissue box as this one is deeply moving and puts a bit of perspective on the character's history before joining Overwatch It also proves that through his drinking, attitude, and battle tactics;[...]

Its almost become a meme unto itself in the Overwatch forums and Reddit, but yet again, Blizzard has decided to nerf Mercy and limit what she's able to do with her Resurrect ability The latest patch notes show that Mercy and Ana have been tweaked in the PTR servers, which we've given a full listing of[...]