Overwatch

Honorable Overwatch Pro Spares Apparently Lagging Opponent

Robert “shadder2k” Mocanu is one of the best Genji players in professional Overwatch. This weekend, he proved that he was not just a great player but also a pretty nice dude. shadder2k and his cohorts in Team Liquid faced off against EnVyUs on Watchpoint Gibraltar during this weekend’s HND Overwatch Invitational. The most remarkable thing…

Team Coach And Manager Charged With Match Fixing In Overwatch Qualifier

The coach and manager of Korean Overwatch team Luminous Solar have been charged with fixing the wildcard qualifier match for OGN APEX Challengers Season 3, according to a report from Inven In a translation from ESPN Esports, Luminous Solar manager Jin Seok-hoon and coach Baek Min-jeh were booked without detention by police after OGN, the…

Guy Tracks His Eyeballs While Playing Overwatch

Picture somebody playing a first-person shooter. You probably imagine them sitting stock still, staring ahead with an almost blank expression on their face, one that denotes quiet focus. You might, however, be missing one key detail: their eyes are moving all over the dang place. Human eyes move fast, especially when we’re doing something spatial…

Women’s College Launches Varsity Esports Program For Student Overwatch Team

Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, is the first all-women’s school to announce a varsity esports program, supported with scholarships. According to ESPN, the program will begin in fall of 2017, and the team will compete in the Tespa Collegiate Series for Overwatch. According to the Stephens College website, Overwatch was “selected because of its diverse…

Heroes of the Storm Turns Overwatch‘s Genji into a Lovable Goofball

The addition of Overwatch favorite Genji to Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm this week has revealed yet another big, important fact about him: this guy loves memes. The cyborg ninja has remained relatively mysterious since the game’s release last year. Every time Blizzard ekes out another clue about his past, the Overwatch fandom analyzes it…

After receiving a “tremendous amount of feedback,” Blizzard changed the way Overwatch does ties in its competitive mode. Now, one team just has to gain more progress than their enemy, with a minimum of 33% progress. That means there will be more ties.

Blizzard Says They Haven’t Found Anything Wrong With Overwatch Healers’ Skill Ratings

Healing in Overwatch isn’t always appreciated—usually just a “Thanks, I’m glad someone is doing it.” Now, players are complaining that it’s not only unappreciated, but it’s also under-rewarded. Recently, healers werereportedly seeingfewer skill rating gains than their more damage-dealing allies. Yesterday, Blizzard responded to the controversy by noting that they haven’t found a “broad systemic…

Overwatch, But Also With Cats

Overwatch is good with dogs. Thus it is written, it is also good with cats. These are all the work of Alice Bissonnet, an artist and animator from France who is a graduate ofthe famous Goeblins school The images were all drawn last year as part of a charity drive, with the proceeds of each…

Blizzard Gives Overwatch Car Wheels, Ruins Game Forever

Overwatch just broke one of its big design rules: Every car is a flying car. And in response, fans are deeming the game “unplayable.” In a 2015 interviewwith the L.A. Times, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan explained that the rule came out of Titan, Blizzard’s never-released MMORPG project. Titan’s dev team had hard-banned flying cars.…

Tips For Playing Overwatch

Of all the games with tens of colorful heroes and millions of people playing incessantly, Overwatch is the least overwhelming. Still, it’s not like anything else out there. It’s not a typical shooter, nor a MOBA, nor even a heartwarming point-and-click adventure starring a gorilla in glasses. Here are some tips to help you wrap…

Blizzard Takes Game Servers Offline To Fix Login Issues [Update]

If you woke up this morning hoping to log some hours with Overwatch (or Hearthstone, or Heroes of the Storm), you probably had issues trying to login to Blizzard’s game client. Five hours later, Blizzard is still working on fixing the problem. [Update 12:59AM] Blizzard says the problems have been resolved Original story follows. The issues…

Random Car Steals The Kill In Overwatch Tournament

Oasis’ active traffic, even in the face of an ongoing superhuman turf war, has led to some fantastic vehicular highlights. In a match between Detonator Gold and Hong Kong Attitude in the ongoing Overwatch Pacific Championship, pro player ManGoJai learned the hard way that you shouldn’t jaywalk. With DTN’s SamuraiD bearing down on him, ManGoJai…

Overwatch‘s Skill Rating System Is Busted For Healers

In the world of video games, healing isn’t a glamorous gig. It’s hard enough to get people to do it when everybody’s on equal footing. And when they’re not? Well, then you’ve got a problem on your gnarled, pock-marked, and thoroughly un-healed hands. When you finish an Overwatch competitive mode match, you gain points toward…

Overwatch‘s Most Popular Player Steps Back From Competing So He Can Stream More

For quite a while, Brandon “Seagull” Larned has led a dual life. Sometimes, he’s a pro player for NRG Esports. Other times, he’s the most popular Overwatch streamer in the business. One guy with two time-devouring careers. Something had to give. Today Larned, who’s known for his dazzling Genji plays, announced that he’s stepping down…

Overwatch Players Hear ‘I Need Healing’ In Their Nightmares

“I need healing.” Yeah, well, get in line, buddy. In Overwatch, needing healing is a way of life. It’s also a thing you can spam in “All” chat until your teammates want to throttle you. And, of course, a meme. A week after Overwatch came out, players noticed that Genji mains in particular like spamming…

Soldier 76 Cosplay, Reporting For Duty

Here is some very good Overwatch cosplay, starring a Soldier 76 who leaves all the jokes and memes at the door and plays the character straight-up, pulling it off almost perfectly. Cosplay by Tentacle Creations

Overwatch‘s New Update Makes Losing Streaks Less Frustrating

In Overwatch, you win some and you lose some. Other times, you win some, you lose a lot, and you seriously consider going to Blizzard’s headquarters so you can do that thing where at first you’re yelling but by the end you’re crying, and somebody gives you a hug and says, “there, there.” That is…

Genji’s New Costume Has Overwatch Fans Asking ‘What Are Those’

It’s a tale as old as time. Overwatch has a new event, and with it, new skins. While the fandom was already hyped for Genji’s Blackwatch skin, they’ve noticed something interesting: he has goddamn knives on his feet. Genji Shimada is a robot ninja whose brother tried to kill him—he’s already an edgy guy without…

Overwatch‘s New PvE Mode Is Terrific

From now until May 1st, in the first-person shooter/dating simulator Overwatch, you can defend the Londonesque King’s Row map from waves of rogue robots as part of the game’s “Uprising” event. It’s the second co-op brawl mode the Overwatch team has tried out, and it is killer. After Overwatch’s co-op Halloween event, I had low…

Overwatch‘s ‘Uprising’ Event Adds New Co-Op Brawl, 100 New Items

Overwatch’s latest event takes us back to simpler times: when robots tried to take over London. Ah, the good ol’ days. The event is called Uprising, and it adds a new co-op brawl (think: the Junkenstein’s Revenge Halloween event) about Tracer’s first mission. Here’s Blizzard’s description of the brawl: “Journey seven years into the past…