overwatch Archives

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[...]

Blizzard has released this new video showcasing the next Overwatch character to become a statue The popular assassin character took the mantra of Widowmaker after assassinating her own husband and realizing that, like spiders, she was never more alive than when killing That statue measures 13.5" (floor to head) with a base of 7.5" in[...]

Blizzard has announced the formation of the Overwatch Pacific Championship, a professional eSports league based in Taipei for their ever-popular MOBA And now pro teams in the Pacific region can get in on the offical Overwatch action with a new league and championship Fantastic! The Overwatch Pacific Championship's first season will begin on the 8th of April (AEST/NZST) with eight[...]

Last week we talked about the amazing work of Meta Athena as they basically crush their way through the Overwatch APEX Tournament with oddball styles While we wait to see if it will carry them to the finals, we already have half of the final picture in place as another longshot team just stamped their ticket to[...]

Up until now, the only thing you could truly do with bad players on Overwatch was mute and hope to not run into them again, because the reporting system on the game was ridiculous People screaming at the top of their lungs about how bad you are at the game, using racial and homophobic slurs[...]

credit//Blizzard After weeks of playtesting, Overwatch's newest character, Orisa is playable on all platforms for Arcade and QuickPlay modes. The tank has already suffered a nerf or two thanks to the tests in the PTR, but hey, that's what the PTR is for Those nerfs took down her max amount of ammunition on her fusion driver and increased[...]

There's nothing more unsatisfying about Overwatch than getting a Draw Well, that and getting a loot box containing nothing but sprays that you already have Seriously, Blizzard Balance those boxes out better! But now the game is phasing out the Draw system with a new complicated way of determining a winner, and it seems few[...]

Even when the dude loses on his own channel, he's having fun. Below are the complete list of winners, with the top winners being Uncharted 4 (5 awards) Overwatch (4 awards) taking home the biggest prizes for the evening with Video Game of The Year and ESports Game Of The Year, respectfully If you'd like to[...]

Meta Athena is an Korean Overwatch eSports team that has gotten some recognition over the past year, but not as much as some of the other major groups who have created teams for the game Until recently, that is, as the team has been pulling out what can only be described as the strangest of strategies that[...]

So, it is very likely that Bossland actually received far more than $8 million in connection with its sale of the Bossland Hacks." This is likely more of a notice that Blizzard is on to cheaters and working on ways to make sure Overwatch stays a clean game. In other Overwatch news, the latest character Orisa has received[...]

Overwatch is rolling out a new hero, Orisa. Sometimes learning how a character came about is as much fun as playing them Here Blizzard has put together a new behind-the-scenes video on how Orisa came to be. Orisa activates on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on March 21, 2017. https://youtu.be/znEHH68unzAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled:[...]

Yesterday we did a brief story about how the people farming in Overwatch due to the new lobby system was getting out of control, and at the end, I mentioned that the powers that be at Blizzard had to be watching and that allowing it was no mistake A few hours later, Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan hit[...]

Apparently in Overwatch, there's just no way to please the fans anymore, either by updates or by gameplay Today we're looking at two of the important stories coming out of the community this week revolving around nerfing and farming First, the nerfing, as we've learned that Ana is going to have her abilities messed with[...]

  During a discussion about Overwatch at GDC, the team was talking about embracing diversity with their latest hit Overwatch has been named Game of the Year by two separate gaming awards now, and there was a bit about Tracer's sexuality that came up during the DICE summit Tracer, being a known lesbian character, was one[...]

Unsurprisingly, Overwatch took home the Game of the Year title here as well as at DICE last week The Independent Games Festival awards also went out, those results are below, but the top award went to Quadrilateral Cowboy Uncharted 4 and Pokémon Go also took home titles. Inside got a decent bit of recognition at both award shows. The[...]

Overwatch, which has now won Game of the Year twice, recently got a few changes to game modes, a new character, and some buffing/de-buffing Well, one of those buffs was to Bastion The buff went into effect earlier this week and players were not fond of the changes. In fact, players were so vocal about their[...]

Overwatch has unveiled their newest hero, and as Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan had said, it's not who people thought it was going to be The rumor was that we'd be getting Doomfist and it would be voiced by Terry Crews… but then Blizzard released a few teasers and it was obvious they were going a different[...]

Without further ado, here is where you can pick up select ECCC 2017 Funko exclusives this weekend (I can confirm these are in stores now, as I stopped on my way to work this morning at my local Hot topic and got both the First Avenger Captain America and the Upside Down Stranger Things two-pack): Hot[...]

They're introducing the Game Browser for the Custom Game Mode in Overwatch The Game Browser will allow you to make your own ruleset, varying things from game mode, heroes abilities, health, movement speed, map rotation, damage, cooldown, ultimate abilities and more Then, once you've got those set, you can share it with friends, teammates or[...]

If you're one of the people playing Overwatch on PS4 (like I am), then you may have noticed the latest 2.05 patch really screwed up Capture The Flag The game has become buggy and prone to lag, freezing and crashing, even in high speeds And don't get me started on the invisibility bug that has[...]

It was originally assumed by many that the next hero for the Overwatch game was going to be Doomfist, but after Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan came out and said that the next character is not who we think it is, folks have been scrambling to figure out who it will be So either Efi or a[...]

There has been a lot of talk over the last few months about the upcoming 24th playable character for Blizzard's hit video game Overwatch The assumption has been that the character would be the much anticipated Doomfist, a character that has been teased since the very first cartoon debuted at Blizzcon in 2014 The cartoon[...]

Will you answer it? This month we're unleashing the beasts of some of pop culture's most ferocious franchises!" And those franchises, named so far, are Overwatch, X-Men and Predator That's right, folks, X-Men licensing in Loot Crate again… it's all change! And in the Loot Crate DX crate? They have Kong Of Skull Island, Predator and Godzilla. Well,[...]