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credit//Blizzard In a new short story expanding the massive Overwatch universe, Blizzard has quietly revealed the existence of a second LGBTQ+ character in the game In the story "Bastet," Soldier 76 meets up with former sniper Ana after the explosion of the Overwatch headquarters in Switzerland Ana catches Jack (Soldier 76) looking at an image of himself[...]

StarCraft has Scarlett, Dead or Alive 4 had Mystik, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has several all-female teams, and the Overwatch League has Gegori But for every Scarlett, Gegori, or Mystik, there are hundreds of male pros While women slowly made inroads into esports, things still looked pretty grim Gegori was initially kept out of the Overwatch[...]

credit//Blizzard Overwatch Contender team Second Wind added a new player to their roster just before the new year, but the player in question quickly received negative attention from Overwatch esports fans A new player hit the top 10 ranks on the Overwatch NA server and was revealed to be a player known as "Ellie"[...]

The Overwatch Contenders team Second Wind has announced that their female player, Ellie, has stepped down from the team just weeks after signing As reported by Variety, her decision to back out of the team comes in the wake of doxxing threats and harassment from members of the Overwatch community. Unfortunately, due to some unforeseen reactions, Ellie has opted to[...]

In a multi-year broadcast deal, Overwatch League Season 2 is coming to "The Mouse" – airing on ESPN, ESPN2, Disney XD, ABC and streaming services – which means you'll have a little more time to upgrade your definition of "spectator sport." Credit: Peabody Awards  #22 Jordan Peele The Academy Award-wining writer/director (Get Out, Us) and one-half of comedy duo[...]

The annual Overwatch tradition of the Winter Wonderland event isn't quite done, as players have a chance to get five free loot boxes today If you weren't already aware, if you log into the game between December 24th-25th, you are automatically awarded five free holiday loot boxes from the devs as their own little Christmas[...]

Last year, Overwatch got some weird attention from having Jeff Kaplan sit by a fire for hours, and now they've doubled-down with Matthew Mercer Right now, on the Overwatch Twitch channel, you can watch the voice of McCree sitting back in a cozy leather armchair next to a burning yule log, having a sip of[...]

Meeseek's boxes, Beast Kingdom Toy Story figure sets, Nendoroid Sully from Monsters Inc., My Hero Academia figures and toys, and the new NERF Rivals Overwatch Reaper pistol pack are all available now. #gallery-6 { margin: auto; } #gallery-6 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-6 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-6 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Walmarts have tons[...]

Blizzard's Overwatch team has been having a ball with the Holiday Season this year, and nothing shows that more than the latest video posted to the game's YouTube channel Called "CookieWatch," the video uses stop motion to present the incredibly comedic battle between Reaper and Tracer over a plate of cookies left out for Santa. The[...]

Blizzard has released an adorable new stop-motion animation celebrating the holidays featuring both Reaper and Tracer again. credit//Blizzard Not so long ago, we got an endearing Overwatch short Except, unlike the impressive CGI ones that delve into the characters of the game,  it created a new fun, Toy Story-like universe where Tracer and Reaper statues came to[...]

The fine folks at Blizzard have created another Overwatch stop motion video, with Reaper and Tracer going at it again This time the two fight each other over some cookies left for Santa on Christmas Eve, but get a bit of a surprise in the middle of their fight Here's hoping this isn't the only[...]

That list includes games like Overwatch, League of Legends, Diablo, and World of Warcraft. credit//Epic Games If you look over the list, you'll see that aside from citing blood and gore, as well as "revealing female characters" as their reasoning, the majority of this list of games were made in the west Several posters have made note[...]

A little bit of troubling news during the holiday event in Overwatch as Blizzard had to pull one of the maps after people got stuck Everyone was super thrilled to see a holiday version of Blizzard World be added as the Claifornia-esq positioned theme park got a shade of holiday cheer Sadly, only half the players[...]

credit//Blizzard Blizzard has announced the Overwatch League's 2019 schedule which brings in eight new expansion teams, some away games, and a $5 million USD prize pool The away games will be hosted by Dallas Fuel, Atlanta Reign, and Los Angeles Valiant in their home cities, which allows the OWL to shake things up a bit The[...]

It's the update that crashed the server within hours of coming back, as Overwatch released the Winter Wonderland 2018 event today We have the official trailer for you here, as well as artwork from all the new skins and some of the added materials you can get from loot boxes until January 2nd We seriously[...]

Following that up in the Fall with McCree from Overwatch getting his own animated short at BlizzCon and the news the character was becoming a LEGO That's an amazing run for anyone who grew up loving games and gaming who now has some say in it We got a chance to chat with Mercer about[...]

Blizzard has officially announced the next Overwatch Winter Wonderland event is on the way next week, making it the third year in a row for the holidays Word came down on their Twitter account today letting us know it would take place from December 11th until January 2nd A good three weeks of getting as[...]

The people at Jinx just keep on rolling out the goods for the Overwatch brand when it comes to clothing and accessories, and we got a new set of winter goodies to review We'll start with a couple of the regular gear basics, and the first item on the list is this Icon Buttondown Shirt[...]

A little bit out of the blue for the weekend, the latest team to officially reveal their look and logo for the Overwatch League is the Vancouver Titans The team is owned by the Aquilini Group and partnered with Luminosity Gaming, and aside from the fact that they appear to have taken on Winston's yeti look,[...]

This Thanksgiving weekend, Blizzard is giving you a chance to play Overwatch, and with them, we're giving you a chance to own it! The awesome folks at Blizzard have offered us 25 game codes to give away! But not just any codes, these are Legendary Edition codes that include the full game as well as[...]

This weekend, now that Ashe has been added to the game, Blizzard has decided to launch another free Overwatch weekend The event kicked in at 11am PDT, and will run until Monday morning, give you a quick 72 hours to play the game and check out all of the new additions as well as the latest[...]

We got another logo and uniform reveal today from the Overwatch League, this time we're getting a look at the Hangzhou Spark We're not gonna lie to you, this one is a little hard to look at The entire theme of the logo is a finger gun surrounded in pink lightning The same finger can be[...]

Blizzard released a brand new set of patch notes for the latest Overwatch update, most of which focuses on some character changes for better and worse While Mercy and Reaper got some slight increases, Roadhog received a couple of nerfs in his Chain Hook Meanwhile, Symmetra is still broken as hell after they changed everything about[...]

The next patch for Overwatch may not be ready yet, but we do know one big factor about it: you need to reinstall the game The company has apparently added on so much content over the past two years that the size of the game has become exponentially bigger, as you may have noticed from[...]

Blizzard has announced the latest Overwatch League team joining the competition in the form of the Chengdu Hunters. The Overwatch League is flying of late The game won esport of the year last night at the Esports Awards alongside several big team additions The league's season 2 is looking promising with big hope that the competition[...]

Today, Blizzard has finally addressed a racially insensitive event that took place on one of their official Overwatch streams this week. Kim "Binbon" Jin Young was one of several presenters who took part in a bit of cosplay on the stream, only his choice wasn't the best as he dressed up in blackface to look like[...]

The Overwatch League released two new images this week, showing off the team names and colors for Paris and Guangzhou The first one we'll look at here is the Paris Eternal, which has taken on a more modern design of the Gallic rooster, which is a symbol of the country dating back to the French Revolution[...]

You can now eat and hear that healing beat as Blizzard has released two new products around the Overwatch character Lúcio this week First off, the company gave the character his own album this week called Synaesthesia Auditiva, which is a free album full of music that sounds a lot like what you already hear the character[...]

The Overwatch League revealed the logos for two new teams joining Season 2 of the esports competition. The Overwatch League is taking big steps in its second season The inaugural season of the league was, by all accounts, a rousing success, and that's convinced eight investors to buy into it, drastically expanding the number of teams[...]

If you've been just a tad curious as to what Ashe can do and how to play her in Overwatch, don't worry, we got the answers today In a video that's clearly been filmed just after BlizzCon, Jeff Kaplan and his five o'clock shadow go over the specifics of what Ashe has to bring to the[...]