Overwatch

Watch Blizzard Create An Overwatch Highlight Animation

Overwatch highlight intros are just one small part of a very big game, but that doesn’t mean they’re an afterthought. This one Mei animation, for instance, took four days to make. Highlight intros play, well, before highlights—for instance, when you’ve gotten Play Of The Game. Artist David Gibson, who we’ve featured before, recorded himself making…

Pro Overwatch Player Wrecks Entire Team’s Defense With Sneaky Lucio Boop

In the $100k Tespa Collegiate Champion Finals, Overwatch player Funanah used Lucio’s “Boop” to steal an early lead in a match. It was a play so good that it seemed to demoralize his opponents into losing the whole thing. The Boop, as many of you already know, is Lucio’s Soundwave move—it can push people to…

My Favorite Images From Toy Fair 2017 Day Three

I’ve escaped from New York’s Javits Convention Center, but not before snapping some final shots of the wonders on display at the 2017 New York Toy Fair. Check out new stuff from Mass Effect Andromeda, Borderlands 2, Overwatch, Kingdom Hearts and whatever else caught my eye. Channeling Josephine Baker, DC Collectibles’ Vixen Bombshell statue is…

Overwatch Mom Is Really Stoked For Her Son’s Team

It’s not easy being a competitive gamer or a college student at an elite university, and especially not both. Fortunately, Overwatch player SlurpeeThief has the support of both his teammates and an extremely enthusiastic mom to pull from. At the Tespa Collegiate Series finals for Overwatch last night in California, Berkeley put the kibosh on…

Your Best Stories Of Getting Rescued In Video Games

In video games, we’re used to being heroes, saving hapless innocents from villains, monsters, and their own demons. Sometimes, though, we need a hero to save us. Here are stories of players coming to each other’s rescue, not because they had to, but because they could. Earlier this week, I asked readers to tell me…

Blizzard Shuts Down Fanmade Overwatch Playboy Parody

Overwatch and porn (or, in this case, “artful eroticism”) have quite a history. Blizzard’s never seemed entirely comfortable with it, but the burgeoning Overwatch porn scene has raged on without its explicit approval. An Overwatch Playboy parody, however, apparently went too far. Playwatch Magazine began as nothing but a series of Playboy-style covers featuring Overwatch…

Crafty Overwatch Players Are Staying Up Late To Get Better Ranks

Overwatch players in low-density regions are allegedly gaming the competitive matchmaking system for unreal rankings and win rates. On RedditandBattle.net forums, Brazilian Overwatch players in particular are concerned about a few Masters-ranked teams whose performance ratings are through the roof. Many are among the region’s top 500 players, lingering in the top 2% of kill/death…

Cheater Ends Up In Match With Pro Overwatch Players, Gets Wrecked

They say karma’s a bitch. I say it’s pretty friggin’ cool sometimes. During a recent stream, Overwatch pro Brandon “Seagull” Larned, who currently plays for NRG, assembled a truly fearsome six stack. His team was made up of Brady “Agilities” Girardi, who plays for Immortals, Christopher “GrimReality” Schaefer, who also plays for Immortals, CLG player…

Overwatch’s third competitive season will end February 21st at 7PM EST.  

Despite Outcry, Blizzard Says Overwatch Loot Box Drop Rates Haven’t Changed

If you ask Overwatch players, the most recent seasonal event, Year of the Rooster, had some damn good skins and some damn heinous drop rates for those skins. Blizzard, however, insists that they haven’t touched those dials in months. I’ve seen a number of threads on the Overwatch forums about what appears to be a…

Look At This Little Overwatch Action Figure

My chief complaint with Overwatch since the beta has been the lack of Overwatch action figures. And while Nendoroids aren’t quite what I had in mind, they are certainly better than nothing. Good Smile Company announced the deal today, and while they’ll be making a whole line of figures, the only one shown—and the first…

How Blizzard Is Combating Korea’s Overwatch Hacking Problem

As previously reported, cheating has been plaguing Overwatch’s South Korean servers. Today, Blizzard Korea announced a new policy designed to combat that. To recap: Because of the way the net cafe business works in South Korea, Overwatch players there could walk into any PC bang and create a free Battle.net account to play. It wasn’t…

Overwatch Voice Actor: Mercy + Genji Would Be “Hot As Fuck”

I main Mercy, so I have a very long and detailed ranking of Overwatch characters I would like her to date. Genji is not at the top of that list, but Symettra’s voice actor is making an argument that maybe he should be. In an interview with PC Gamer, Anjali Bhimani was asked about her…

Overwatch Players Are Making Ridiculous Custom Game Modes

Overwatch’s PTR just got a bunch of new custom game options, and people are using them in responsible, measured ways to— just kidding. They’re turning the game into a dang Bugs Bunny cartoon. The new custom game options allow players to boost movement speed, remove cooldowns, change team sizes, ban heroes, and alter all sorts…

D.va From Overwatch Has Become A Symbol of Hope In Real Life

According to Overwatch lore, D.va is a pro gamer who serves and inspires her country. In real life, D.va’s role is starting to mirror her in-game persona, as she becomes a symbol of hope for women in South Korea. While millions protested and gathered worldwide for the Women’s March on January 20th, sharp-eyed fans such…

The Seven Stages Of Spending Too Much Money In Games

“I was like you once,” says an old man with a beard down to his belt, sitting in the corner of a bar. You think he’s talking to you, but maybe he’s shouting in hopes that someone will listen. “I told myself I’d never buy loot boxes or heroes or none of that,” he whimpers.…

Why Overwatch Players Are Excited About A Character Named ‘Doomfist’

Doomfist, the name of a long-lost Disturbed album and probably also a villain in season 57 of Power Rangers, is today’s big Overwatch discussion topic. Some suspect that he’s gonna be a playable hero soon, but he’s technically been present in the game since day one. In Overwatch lore, Doomfist is actually a title, rather…

Tell Us What Ridiculous Overwatch Controllers To Make

Sometimes, a keyboard doesn’t cut it. Sometimes, a sterile console controller doesn’t really capture the true undertones of a video game character. For example, I bet a screaming blender controller would better put me in touch with Overwatch’s Genji. For McCree, maybe a couple Snap Dragons and a water gun. Readers, we need your help.…

British Father Visits Korean Net Cafe, Plays Overwatch For The First Time 

Henry is “hopeless” at games. So YouTuber Josh decided to take this English gentleman to an internet cafe and have him play Overwatch Even if he’s not too keen about killing people and worries about spilling food on the keyboard, Henry is a great sport and better than you’d expect. It’s fun to see Henry…

Overwatch Getting New Custom Game Options And A Server Browser

Hey, you hear about that rad new player-created game type Overwatch fans are super into? You… have? Come on now, don’t lie. Overwatch’s custom game options have been basically worthless since since day one. Thankfully, that’s about to change. In a new developer update, Jeff “from the Overwatch team” Kaplan delved into the game’s new…