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With the one-year anniversary of Overwatch on the way, Blizzard has released details about the start of Competitive Season 5 Season 4 will wrap up on May 28, and with only couple days of breathing room, Season 5 will launch on May 31, PDT, the rewards for Season 4 being added on June 1. Provided you actually[...]

Overwatch has got some awesome things on the way to mark the game's one-year anniversary next week On Tuesday, three new maps will be available in 1-v-1 and 3-v-3, all three in variations of Dorado, Temple of Anubis, and Eichenwalde Including what appears to be Sombra's private workstation as a spawn area. Here's a sneak peek[...]

Dark Horse and Blizzard Entertainment have joined together to publish The Art of Overwatch, The Art of Overwatch Limited Edition, and Overwatch: Anthology, Volume 1 These are the latest additions to Dark Horse and Blizzard Entertainment's line of critically acclaimed publications, preceded by World of Warcraft Chronicle (volumes I and II) and a series of Overwatch[...]

If you're a Genji main, you might want to jump online and play the hell out of him before Blizzard finds a way to fix their latest "fix." Check out the

What would the purpose be of adding a new character if its just going to play the same as one already in the game? Well, the designers are doing a great job of keeping the game play for each new character unique and the upcoming addition of D.Va from Overwatch is no different She has[...]

There's been a lot of buzz over the distribution of the loot inside the Loot Boxes from Overwatch ever since the company had to disclose the probability amounts to the Chinese government (Keep in mind, those are the amounts for China, who knows what it is in other countries.) Metabomb were the first to get their hands[...]

It shouldn't come as a shock after the 30 million players annoucnement, but Activision Blizzard's First-Quarter earnings call, the company revealed that Overwatch has become the fastest growing franchise at Blizzard, and helped the company accumulate over one billion dollars in revenue since launch. credit//Blizzard You can check out the full results of the data here, but essentially the[...]

Her campaign used the incredibly popular Blizzard MOBA Overwatch in an ad, basically saying that her skills in political office would equal some awesome kills in Overwatch, and that all of this reflects positively on her ability to run a Presidency free of corruption. From what we were able to gather thanks to a quick Google search, Sim is running on[...]

The latest patch for Overwatch went into effect yesterday, and while we have a complete list of changes for you below from Blizzard, the two main highlights are that Soldier 76 got a slight nerf while Reinhardt got nerfed hard on an ability Specifically reducing his range on Earthshatter, which I think I've personally seen[...]

The Skill Rankings have been totaled and the Overwatch team has revealed the 32 countries (listed below) who will be participating in the Overwatch World Cup this summer The top 10 aren't really much of a shock, but when you get into the lower third you start to see some surprises, like Vietnam, Turkey, and Romania[...]

As a game, Overwatch has just entered a new echelon of gaming with a milestone they decided to celebrate today Game reps took to Twitter to announce the game currently has 30 million players online from both PC and console versions That the kind of membership record you only see in massive selling multiplayer shooters like[...]

If you're a D-Va player in Overwatch, this week is your week And we're not just talking about the awesome new skin she received as part of the Uprising event where she is dressed as Officer D-Va I mean… We can, because just look at this! But now Heroes Of The Storm are having another Overwatch-themed[...]

The latest edition to Blizzard MOBA, Heroes of the Storm, is the opportunistic mobile assassin from Overwatch, Genji A cybernetic ninja, Genji is the younger brother of Hanzo, who refused to join his families criminal empire… which lead to him being assaulted and left for dead He was pieced back together by Overwatch and given[...]

When we got the latest map for Overwatch called 'Oasis," we thought it was a godsend to break up the monotony from maps that everyone figured out and learned to camp on Well, until Oasis kinda became the same thing, now it's just an average map for us to experiment on with getting onto the[...]

I didn't believe it until I took the character for a spin in training, but it's true, there's a slight time differential on his ability where he takes longer to swing, and therefore, you get in fewer attacks while it's running. credit//Blizzard According to principal designer Geoff Goodman, who took to the Overwatch forums, he explained that[...]

For the past few weeks, ever since the new hero Orisa came out and beyond with new patch updates and features, Overwatch players have been complaining on both PC and console that it's becoming increasingly difficult for them to achieve a higher SR (skill ranking) with support players like Mercy, Zenyatta, Ana, Symmetra, and Lúcio[...]

Overwatch's Genji and the Hanamura map are making the jump to Blizzard's MOBA Heroes of the Storm, at least in beta. Genji is an Assassin class in Heroes and has a larger skill set than in Overwatch His increased mobility, basic shuriken spread attack, Deflect and Swift Strike abilities and Dragonblade ultimate are all present in some form[...]

Like most shooters, if you play Overwatch on PC you have much better aim and response time (as well as the ability to adjust your settings to what you want) than people who plan on PS4 or XB1 That's about to get a change when the next patch for the game comes out Lead engineer Tim[...]

NRG Esports just lost one of their finest MVPs and one of the most popular players in Overwatch this week. Brandon "Seagull" Larned has decided to leave the team to pursue more streaming of, you guess it, Overwatch One of the finest Genji players you'll ever see in the game, Larned had been streaming full time while[...]

Smurfing has been an issue with Overwatch since just a couple months after the game was released If you're not familiar with the term, it's when a high-level player starts a new account and pulverizes lower-ranked players so they can gloat about it To a lesser extent, when Seasons 2-4 started, high-ranked players would lose[...]

Jeff Kaplan, Vice President of Blizzard Entertainment and Game Director for Overwatch, can knock this off the bucket list In the same way Jimmy Fallon used to make Brian Williams rap, a Youtube user named Dinoflask has made Kaplan sing a parody of Smash Mouth's song All-Star that talks about being Platinum ranked in Overwatch[...]

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Finally, after seeing dozens of leaks and the comic, we finally have something tangible and official from Blizzard themselves with the latest trailers and artwork from Overwatch's April event, Uprising! Along with over 100 new pieces of loot collectibles that you'll be scrambling to get, you'll be able to[...]

Last week Blizzard revealed that they would be hosting a new Overwatch event with a pretty vague tweet giving us a few hints as to the event, but mostly just a date April 11th was the date in the tweet, but it looks like the trailer for the event hit early on the Playstation France Youtube[...]

We prefer to root for underdogs, but it seems like fate was just against all the strange teams that came to APEX this year. First, we saw the strange

Yet you talk to someone like Jeff Kaplan of Blizzard Entertainment, and diversity has been the driving force behind their 25 million player strong game Overwatch Kaplan was speaking to Kotaku shortly after the Marvel story broke and was asked about the diverse characters in the game and fan reaction. "I think the way that we've[...]

The new Overwatch skins are officially tied to the comic released earlier this week as part of the new Uprising event that will be taking place in just a few days The image below is kinda funky, and it's totally on Microsoft for spilling the beans early, but at least we have a good idea[...]

Ever! Blizzard has been going after Bossland for years after they made dozens of hacks for World Of Warcraft, but the tipping point that pissed them off was seeing a special hack deal for Overwatch Now programs like Honor Buddy and the defunct Watchover Tyrant have put the cheater group in major trouble with the court system. credit//Blizzard After[...]

Blizzard put out a shocking tweet last night about their next update to everyone's favorite MOBA, Overwatch. Now that the clickbaiting is finished, I'm going to leave you with the tweet to just let it all sink in. Initiating archive declassification…Mission files unlock: April 11 RETWEET to confirm pic.twitter.com/GUvthyskCm — Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) April 3, 2017 Yep, this is exactly what I[...]

Blizzard is not slowing down when it comes to the success of Overwatch on the eSports front Hell, the game had tournaments happening during the beta when there was nothing to support it, so how can you deny giving an audience that thirsty for competition something big to chew on The last World Cup for[...]

As we talked about before, Meta Athena has been the darling of the Overwatch APEX Tournament happening this month, using their own unorthodox styles to become the dark horse underdogs of the tournament It was looking like they might make their way to the finals, but sadly, they were defeated yesterday at the hands of Lunatic-Hai[...]