Overwatch

In the Overwatch holiday update, Roadhog’s gun is a present from Junkrat. That strange fluttering sensation you’re feeling in your chest right now? That’s your heart being warmed. Thanks for spotting this, gaara

Overwatch‘s Holiday Event Has Begun

The holidays are almost here, and you know what that means: a new Overwatch seasonal event (and also presents and family or whatever). Overwatch’s seasonal event, titled Winter Wonderland, just began. It includes Christmas skins, emotes, and highlight intros for pretty much every character in the game. Here are some of the skins: Torbjorn as…

If Overwatch Was Cyberpunk

Overwatch has its share of hackers and robots and pink neon signs, but with its blue skies and cheery spirit it’s not exactly what you’d call cyberpunk. So artist Ching Yeh decided to fix that. His series of illustrations depict some of the usually-chipper heroes as grim warriors of a sad cyberpunk/anime future, and what…

Blizzard Saves Overwatch Player From Loot Box Disaster

Imagine that, after buying hundreds of loot boxes, you finally had all the Overwatch skins you spent so long coveting from afar. Then imagine that they started slowly disappearing. It’s like something out of a very dorky (yet EXTREMELY terrifying) Twilight Zone episode, but that’s exactly what happened to Kaleptik. Over the course of a…

No One Can Hide From This Widowmaker Cosplay’s Sights

The only thing better than Overwatch cosplay is Overwatch skin cosplay This Huntress Widowmaker skin is by Moth Child, and is just fantastic. Photos byThe Nerdy Monkey

China Will Force Games With Loot Boxes To Disclose Odds

I fucking hate loot boxes, but there’s no denying that they work. I can’t count the number of times I’ve played two or three more Overwatch matches than I was planning to because I was so close to the chance to click on another crate full of confetti and disappointment. China just passed a law…

Overwatch‘s Rankings Feel Weird This Season Because Tiers Are More Accurate

Last week, Overwatch’s third competitive season kicked off. Approximately five nanoseconds later, forums flooded with everything from furtive questions to irate rants about placement. The short version is, some people didn’t feel like their initial ranks corresponded with their performance in placement matches or their ranking tier last season or, well… anything. Some high-tier players…

Overwatch Players Hit Lowest Possible Rank In Record Time

Remember Dale Brown, aka Hanjo, aka the guy who got the lowest possible rank in season one of Overwatch? Well, he’s still around, and this time, he and a friend pulled off a world first. On the first day of Overwatch season three, Brown and his friend Jon “WrstReaperNA” Kingham hit rank one, with Kingham…

Overwatch Players Create Their Own Version Of Hide-And-Seek

Overwatch’s new 3v3 elimination mode is much more tense than your average match. If you wanna make it downright frightening, though, try playing hide-and-seek. Muselk and friends decided to create their own objective in 3v3: hide (and, you know, don’t die) until the timer runs out, rendering the match a draw. Their results were… mixed.…

The Highest-Ranked Overwatch Player Mains Roadhog, Suckers

Overwatch playerEvermore is a one-man apocalypse. It’s not an overstatement—he’s the top-ranked Overwatch player, and, somehow, he got there with Roadhog. Evermore’s sitting pretty with a capped 5,000 skill rating he reached just hours after Season 3 launched. Evermore is a Korean Overwatch pro named Koo Kyo Min of Team KongDoo Panthera and he’s over…

Overwatch Player Uses Glitch To Walk Team Of Roadhogs Into Oncoming Traffic

Those poor Roadhogs. They trusted you! Pvthazard figured out that Overwatch’s new map, Oasis, has a bug where if you shoot a Roadhog while he’s hooking you, the hook won’t retract. Upon realizing this, Pvthazard did what any sensible person would: they spawned a team of NPC Roadhogs and got hooked by every single one,…

Overwatch Wins Game Of The Year At The 2016 Game Awards

Overwatch just took top honors as Game of the Year at this year’s The Game Awards. It beat Doom, Inside, Titanfall 2, and Uncharted 4. Eligible games had to have been out after November 24 of last year and before November 24 of this year. While accepting the award, Blizzard’s Ray Gresko said, “While we’ve…

Overwatch Players Are Finding Ridiculous Ways To Use The New Map’s Cars

Overwatch’s new map, Oasis, has cars and jump pads. You know what that means: the dreaded S-word. I speak, of course, of shenanigans Among other things, Oasis is populated by cars that can and will do what cars do: mercilessly plow through cartoon heroes. Overwatch players, who happen to overlap with the ten percent of…

Overwatch Cheaters Thought They Were Using Undetectable Cheats, But Got Banned Anyway [Updated]

Overwatch got an update yesterday. The biggest addition was a new control map on the test server where you can play in traffic. However, a major wave of bans came alongside the update as well, with some players complaining that it seems to have caught previously undetectable cheat programs. A post on the official Overwatch…

Overwatch Outfits, As Reviewed By People Who Know Fashion

Overwatch is a cavalcade of character design. It’s almost — dare I say it — fashionable. But what do I know? I’m a 35 year-old games journalist. I own roughly 25 white t-shirts. Five don’t have stains. Yet. My solution: create a panel and ask the experts. This is Overwatch fashion, as reviewed by people…

Traffic Can Kill You In Overwatch‘s New Map

Overwatch’s upcoming map, Oasis, will crush you. Literally—there’s traffic. Now live on the PTR, Oasis features cars that drive around its periphery. Will they actually kill you, you might ask? Yes. And then they’ll drive away, probably laughing, as Overwatch player ElatedAmpleAruanas found. Here’s a full tour of the map, which, bear in mind, could…

Overwatch Player Reaches ‘Max’ Level After Six Months Of Non-Stop Play

Overwatch has a max level! Kinda. A Chinese account reached it a little while back, but they made judicious use of account-sharing, allowing a single account to level up for ungodly amounts of time each day. Now, finally, one player has done it all on his own. Per PVP Live, French player TaZzeRK just hit…

Craftsmen Forge Genji’s Glowing Sword From Overwatch

Overwatch’s Genji is the annoying buzz in your ear when you know a fly is in the room and can’t damn find it. But you have to admit—his weapon design is awesome. In a video posted today, weapon craftsmen Man At Arms hand-made Genji’s glowing, green katana sword and Shuriken. They’re the same guys who…

What Is It With Overwatch Cosplay And Butts?

Tracer’s derrière has a lot to answer for. Anyway, this is a very good piece of Reaper cosplay, featuring his Wight skin. Also, shout out to the D.Va on the left here who, instead of just buying the same printed bodysuit every other D.Va cosplayer does, got hold of a much much fancier, more expensive…

Street Fighter V Mod Lets You Play As Sombra From Overwatch

It was surely only a matter of time before Overwatch’s latest hacker hero got spliced into Street Fighter V The mash-up comes from THEJAMK, who’s no stranger to messing with the character models in Capcom’s latest fighting game. Using Street Fighter’s Laura as the foundation, THEJAMK tweaked her design here and there to transform her…