Overwatch

What We Liked And Hated About Overwatch League Preseason

Blizzard’s Overwatch League is maybe the most ambitious American esports league ever, and its preseason wrapped up this weekend. The Compete staff, with an assist from our one blogparent that we’re still on speaking terms with, breaks down what went well last weekend and what can be improved for the regular season. The real matches…

The New Ready Player One Trailer Is Filled With Video Game, Anime, And Comic Book Characters

The first Ready Player One preview had loads of cameos and pop culture references, so it’s no surprise that the latest one does, too. As previously pointed out, the new trailer features Chun-Li and Overwatch’s Tracer. There are also other cameos, with characters from games, anime, comics and more showing up. Let’s have a look!…

On The Origins Of Sombra

Ben Zhang is a concept artist at Blizzard, where he’s worked on small, unheralded indie projects like Hearthstone and Overwatch You can see more of Ben’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the…

Overwatch Pro Blasts Enemy Team Into Oblivion With Moira

Seoul Dynasty’s Ryu Je-hong is one of the best flex and support players in the world, and he showed that much and more in last night’s Overwatch League match against the Houston Outlaws. Moira, the newest addition to Overwatch, hasn’t been making too much of a splash in the competitive scene. But on a control…

Soon, All That Will Matter In High-Rank Overwatch Matches Is Whether Your Team Wins

Overwatch’s competitive mode has been a source of much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and flogging of one-tricks since its inception, and it’ll probably remain that way until the end of time. On the upside, Blizzard is taking aim at two of its biggest issues. In a new forum post, principal designer Scott Mercer announced that…

What It’s Like To Watch Overwatch At A Bar

Yesterday marked the official beginning of Overwatch League, Blizzard’s official multi-million dollar pro Overwatch proving ground. To celebrate the occasion, a San Francisco bar called Brewcade played a couple preseason matches on a big screen. Self-described Deadspin “doofus” Patrick Redford and I ventured there to see how the experience stacked up against watching The Big…

Overwatch Gets Yeti Boss Fight

The holidays are upon us, and you know what that means: new Overwatch stuff. And also family and celebration or whatever, I guess. In a new video update, game director Jeff “It’s Beginning To Feel A Lot Like” Kaplan announced that the game’s Mei-focused holiday event is returning. It’ll include everything from last year—skins, the…

The Best Overwatch Feeling Is Hooking A Tracer

If Overwatch had a sequel that was just Roadhog grabbing Tracer with his chain hook, I’d pay a whole $40 for it. Snagging Overwatch’s Roadrunner, pulling her in and head-shotting her is the best feeling in Overwatch Roadhog and Tracer are like the tortoise and the hare. Roadhog isn’t very mobile; he can’t dash, teleport…

Philly’s Overwatch League Team Has Pulled Out Of The Entire Preseason

The Philadelphia Fusion, the Comcast-owned Overwatch League team, just pulled out of their pre-season matches, citing “player logistics issues.” The Fusion had been scheduled to play the debut match of the OWL pre-season against the Florida Mayhem tomorrow. Blizzard has announced that the San Francisco Shock will be replacing the Fusion in tomorrow’s match. You’d…

Overwatch Gets Separate Currency For League Skins

The moment Blizzard announced team-specific Overwatch skins as part of its effort to make the game more watchable, it was pretty much inevitable that they’d become available to the game’s skin-starved general populace as well. You won’t be unlocking them the normal way, though. In a video released today, OWL commissioner Nate Nanzer explained that…

Overwatch‘s Doomfist Kinda Sucks, So Thank Goodness For Patches

Five months after his release, it turns out that Overwatch’s villainous, terrifying hero Doomfist kind of sucks. Barely anybody wants to play him competitively and, frankly, that makes sense: His beat-em-up playstyle doesn’t feel like a great fit for Overwatch’s cartoonish first-person shooter world. Yesterday, Blizzard finally announcedthat they’re tweaking the hero so, hopefully, he’ll…

Overwatch‘s Little Onion Octopus Has Become A Sensation

Some Overwatch fans might argue that the first-person shooter’s darling isn’t any of its heroes. It may be an onion-headed cephalopod that, initially, was nothing more than an innocuous background object. In the year and a half since Overwatch’s release, Pachimari’s fandom has outshone some of the games’ actual heroes’. In Overwatch’s early days, Pachimari…

What Happened When The Guy Who Remixes Overwatch‘s Jeff Kaplan Met Jeff Kaplan

When Dinoflask first started making comedy videos of Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan, he never could’ve imagined he’d one day be surprising the man himself to celebrate his 15th anniversary at Blizzard. Heck, he could barely believe it right before it happened. “I was like, ‘it’s definitely a scam,’” Dinoflask said of the moment he got…

Overwatch Pro’s Mid-Match Suspension Raises Questions About Blizzard’s Reporting System

Félix “xQc” Lengyel was playing a competitive Overwatch match last night when suddenly, he was booted from the game and informed his account had been banned or suspended—an action that’s sparked discussion over false reporting. Lengyel was mid-match when it occurred, leaving his teammates down a player after the punishment was placed on his account.…

Fantastic D.Va Cosplay Is A Working Mech Suit

Most D.Va cosplay you seeis someone wearing her jumpsuit. Which is fine, but Gryphon’s Gears was having none of that, deciding to not just build her mech, but have it be able to walk around as well. I’m going to assume he pulled up short of also adding in the ability to self-destruct if it…

There’s now a tribute to Dennis “Internethulk” Hawelka in Overwatch. Spotted by player panqakee, it’s in the attacker spawn on Eichenwalde and takes the form of a poster with

Moira, Overwatch’s new healer, has just gone live. The game’s latest update also includes some nerfs to Mercy’s resurrection skills, which means she’ll probably stop being every team’s number-one pick for support players.

Overwatch League has announced the full schedule for all of December’s pre-season games, as well as the first season, which starts January 10 and runs through June 16. The debut season has been split into four five-week stages, each of which culminates in a title match with a $125,000 prize pool.

D.Va Cosplay Is Here To Destroy

Here’s JS Cosplay with an absolutely incredible take on D.Va’s Deathwing the Destroyer skin. It’s not just the costume here that nails it, it’s the photography (by CineCosu), lighting (by @justinelement), make-up work (@anhakinskywalker) and assitance (epictoastphotos) that’s on-point as well.

When Overwatch Goes Punk

Like they did with underwear, and then formal evening wear, Overwatch cosplayers have once again taken their favourite characters and put a little spin on their outfits. This time, the theme is punk. These costumes were all on show at this year’s BlizzCon, with most of the shots below taken by Mineralblu