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New Overwatch Map Oasis Now Available In Game
Here is a nice gift to get the year rolling for Overwatch. It's been announced that the game's newest map Oasis is now live in the game The map had been in the PC PTR servers since the end of November, but up until now, it had been relegated there However, now the location, which takes[...]
Overwatch Releases First Look At New Map Oasis
It was announced at Blizzcon back in November, but now we get our first look at the new map for Overwatch The city is called Oasis, an incredibly advanced city in the Arabian Desert The city was built by researchers and academics from around the region as a place of scientific progress – a monument[...]
Diablo III
Will you unravel the secrets surrounding this dark wanderer? Overwatch: Bring the battle for Sanctuary into the fight for the future with in-game sprays representing your favorite Diablo III classes—along with a new player icon modeled after the Lord of Terror! StarCraft II: Put the Lord of Terror to work for you with a Diablo-themed worker portrait. World of Warcraft: Strange[...]
An Overwatch Animated Short Based On Lucio Might Be On The Way
Lucio is one of Overwatch's most popular heroes This isn't just because he is one of the most effective and fun healers to play (though that helps), but he is also just a super positive DJ with a passion for music That goes a long way. It seems he might be getting his own animated Overwatch[...]
Blizzard Provides Statement Confirming That Tracer Is Lesbian
The news about Tracer's sexuality has circulated for a few days now, ever since she was seen kissing her roommate Emily in the latest Overwatch comic, Reflections The Overwatch forums in particular have been abuzz with the news, with some pretty wild (and sometimes baffling (and sometimes awful))  arguments going around about the revelation. The comic[...]
Jeff Kaplan Gives Us A Year In Review For Overwatch And Future Plans
Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan sat down for 11 minute and did a year in review for the games inaugural year He breaks down the highs and lows, talks about adding Ana and Sambra to the game and then goes into some of the things we'll be seeing in 2017 Hinting at new maps, new[...]
Tracer's Sexuality Didn't Make Overwatch Political – It Always Was
A lot, and when I say that I mean most, players of Overwatch don't care about the lore It's designed so you don't have to engage with the characters you are playing with, or the locations you're in If you are just there to get as many eliminations as you can, or help others get[...]
Overwatch Reveals Their First Openly Gay Hero In Comic Story
Blizzard has released their new holiday themed comic for Overwatch today called Reflections by writer Michael Chu and artist Miki Montillo and in doing so outed one of their most popular characters. Over a year ago Blizzard confirmed that at least one of the heroes was gay, this story tells you which one[...]
Overwatch Director Apologises Over Mei Legendary Skin Categorisation
Some Overwatch fans can feel pretty invested in the characters of the game In every patch the forum explodes into chaos over fans of a character usually claiming that their favorite character has been slighted one way or another. There was a bit of a hubbub over a cosmetic recently though When the Winter Wonderland event[...]
Overwatch's Winter Wonderland Event Is Now Live
So, here is your PSA Overwatch fans. Blizzard have now lifted the curtain on the holiday event in Overwatch, Winter Wonderland is now live It was officially revealed in this new trailer, with a couple map reskins and skins for Lúcio, McCree, Mei, Pharah, Reaper, Roadhog, Sombra, Torbjörn, Tracer, Winston and Zenyatta. Oh, also, Symmetra's double ultimate[...]
Overwatch's Holiday Event Starts Next Week
We've been hearing a lot about a holiday Overwatch event for sometime, and judging by how the game has celebrated seasonal occasions, I'm sure just about everyone could have guessed there was one coming. However, we have some concrete information now The official Overwatch twitter sent out this tweet, inviting players to join in the even on[...]
Overwatch's New Map Oasis Is Now In The PTR
Overwatch is close to getting a brand new map as announced at BlizzCon a few weeks ago In fact, it seems we are very, very close, and some will even be able to play it now. The new map Oasis, set in a science driven Arabian city, has been released on the PTR test servers[...]
Gengi's Dragonblade Sword From Overwatch Gets Made Real
The latest Man At Arms: Reforged jumps into the world of Blizzard Entertainments newest games series Overwatch The Stagemer brothers of Baltimore Knife & Sword take on making Genji's Dragonblade sword They say that the Dragonblade is the top requested build by their fans The build includes a sword making technique that was created back[...]