Overwatch

Overwatch’s Widowmaker Takes A Day Off

Amazingly, this is the second cosplay we’ve seen from the same gallery of fan art, which depicted a bunch of Overwatch characters hanging out in their street clothes. There was a great Pharah outfit at Blizzcon last year, and now there’s this Widowmaker shoot from Chinese cosplayer NightyQueen Photos by Ashen. For reference, here’s the…

What We Love And Hate About Overwatch‘s Chinese New Year Update

On the latest episode of our semi-regular Overwatch show, Let’s Break It Down, Cecilia, Heather, and I discuss the pros and cons of the Year Of The Rooster update. Pro: Roadhog’s new hook is actually kinda cool. Con: his new skin makes him look like a Texas chainsaw massacre. Also, capture the flag? Not super…

An Overwatch Glitch Is Ejecting Dva Into Space

A hilarious glitch made its way into Overwatch with Tuesday’s update. Dvas are getting flung out of their mech suits and into the abyss on the 3v3 mode’s Ecopoint Antarctica map. [Update—12:30 PM, 1/27]: Blizzard software engineer Bill Warnecke commented last night on the Battle.net forums that “Servers are currently being hotfixed for the issue.”…

Playing Overwatch At 100 x 105 Resolution Is Not Recommended

Most of the time, PC gamers want their games to look the best. Here is an example of someone trying to make a game look the worst MinorVidsPC has taken Overwatch and got the resolution down to a miniscule 100 x 105. Throw in playing it on the lowest quality settings and you’ve got a…

Overwatch’s Roadhog Improves With Hook 2.0

We are now in the age of Hook 2.0, my friends. It’s been a long, sometimes unjust journey, often through walls or thick pillars. But yesterday, Blizzard fixed Overwatch’s Roadhog. And now, I feel good knowing that I deserved to hook you chumps, and didn’t just get lucky with a glitch. In the patch notes,…

The Latest Overwatch Thing Is ‘Hot Zenyatta’

Zenyatta has a new skin for the Overwatch Lunar New Year event and uh, is it getting hot in here or is it just me? Zenyatta’s new skin portrays him as Tang Sanzang from the Chinese novel Journey to the West. Sanzang is actually the central character of the novel, which is about the Buddhist…

Blizzard Says Overwatch Skins Accidentally Made Mei Look Thinner

Like most of Overwatch’s Lunar New Year skins, Mei’s outfits for the Year of the Rooster are great. They caused a slight stir earlier today, though, when people who had previously believed (and loved) Mei for being a little thicker than your average video game woman thought she was now looking a bit slimmer. For…

Overwatch‘s New CTF Mode Has Too Many Draws

Overwatch’s new seasonal event is the automated cosplay and porn generator’s first stab at a time-honored first-person shooter tradition: capture the flag. So, how does it fare? The short answer is, not great. Let me preface this by saying Overwatch’s Chinese New Year-themed “capture the rooster” brawl isn’t terrible. I’ve played for about two hours…

Overwatch‘s Lunar New Year Event Is Now Live, Here’s What’s In It

Overwatch is celebrating the Chinese New Year in style, from the 24th of January to the 13th of February. Expect lots of skins, sprays, as well as a new Capture-The-Flag Brawl mode. Here’s the trailer: Blizzard notes that this event will come with 100 cosmetic themed items, along with LOTS of fireworks. Said items will…

We’ve got a long week ahead of us. So here’s Reinhardt from Overwatch joyriding down Mario Kart’s Rainbow Road. Thanks for lifting our spirits, Noilleber. (P.S. stick around for the video’s ending.)

Karma Hits Lucio Player Like A Ton Of Bricks

Today on Highlight Reel we have titans without mercy, Widowmaker karma, excited Skyrim NPCs and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Skyrim – It…

Artist Making His Own Awesome Overwatch Statues

Blizzard is doing a terrible job at getting us official Overwatch figures and statues. Until they sort that out, there are artists like Mankej doing good work in their stead. He’s made a few statues of Overwatch characters himself, and has recorded progress builds on his YouTube site (he also streams on Twitch) so you…

Bunny Symbol For Overwatch‘s D.Va Shows Up At Women’s March In Seoul

Unless you’re living under a rock, you probably noticed the Women’s Marches going on all over the world this weekend. The political protest is home to all sorts of people, messages, and signage, including from Blizzard’s Overwatch The above image, which came by way of the Twitter account for the Women’s March in Seoul, shows…

Overwatch Players Honor Fallen Friend With 12-Gun Salute

Willem Den Toom was an avid Overwatch player and contributor at the site Too Much Gaming. On January 15, he passed away. He was only 36. Still grieving, his friends decided to give him a proper send-off. Willem’s friends at Too Much Gaming explained the rationale behind the video: “As a tribute to a fallen…

Overwatch Running Chinese New Year Event

Overwatch will be running a thing for Chinese New Year, starting January 25. There will be skins. Korea got a separate little trailer for its own Lunar New Year festivities, with a killer D.Va skin:

The Woes of An Overwatch Player Who Keeps Getting Reported For Playing Widowmaker

Snipers have a bad reputation: the class is infamous for standing back and picking off kills, all without contributing to the match objective. In Overwatch, that sniper stigma means that players consider heroes like Widowmaker and Hanzo to be nonviable competitively. For some players, straying from that norm often turns ugly. For weeks now, I’ve…

Blizzard Responds To Ongoing Fan Anger Surrounding The Overwatch Test Server

Overwatch’s PTR, or public test realm, is a blessing and a curse for players. On one hand, they get to try out new changes before they go live. On the other, if players don’t love a change, there’s no guarantee Blizzard will do a 180. Right now, D.Va’s staring down the barrel of a big…

Blizzard Banning Players Who ‘Nuke’ Overwatch Matches

Overwatch cheaters on PC have a new trick up their sleeves. It’s called “nuking,” and it’s essentially a targeted form of a DDOS attack that slows matches to a crawl, sometimes to the point that players can’t even report the infraction. This form of cheating doesn’t appear to be as widespread as, say, aimbotting yet,…

Overwatch Cosplay As An Action Movie [Update]

Rather than just standing around lookin’ sharp, these Overwatch cosplayers have gone to the trouble of creating their own little action-packed movie, which plays out kinda like Widowmaker’s official short, only with actual humans. UPDATE – For some reason, the video keeps disappearing off the internet, both on YouTube and Facebook. We’ll get a copy…

Overwatch Player Gets Teams Dancing To Funk Music

It’s been a hell of a day. Sometimes, you just need something to make you smile. Here’s a person blasting funk music at teammates in Overwatch. Cute dancing ensues. Dunno Anything brought the funk to Overwatch, and Overwatch boogied until it couldn’t boogie anymore: Thank you for healing our shattered souls with the power of…