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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…

Lucio Player Puts Together Ultimate Boops Remix

It’s hard to hate Overwatch’s Lucio. No matter how many times he blasts you off a ledge or drops down unexpectedly from the side of a wall, he’s just too upbeat to get angry at. That’s why Thomas Turbado’s latest video highlighting the DJ’s mechanics is so full of good vibes, whether you like playing…

Roadhog Player Destroys Mei In The Most Cathartic Way Possible

Sometimes it’s worth unloading an entire Roadhog ultimate to make sure Mei is 100% dead. That’s what Reddit user xTheManOfSteelx did in an Overwatch clip he posted earlier today. “This Mei had been annoying me the entire game and we almost had the point capped anyway, so it was worth it,” he wrote. Usually Mei’s…

Why Some Overwatch Cheaters Are So Hard To Catch

Not everyone plays fair in Overwatch. Some people choose to download hacks that improve their aim, ruining the game for everyone else. Here’s how some of the most insidious Overwatch cheats work. YouTube user Chuck Norris has a quick, informative video that shows you just how sneaky Overwatch cheats can be. Contrary to popular belief,…

It’s High Noon, Overwatch Cosplay

I’ve posted a lot of Overwatch cosplay this year, but not much of it features McCree, so let’s fix that, for the sake of both you and your Huckleberry This is Russian cosplayer shimyrk, with a McCree that gets the character 100% right from the tip of his hat to the top of his spurs.

Overwatch Players Are Using Symmetra’s New Shields To Break The Game

Overwatch’s Symmetra overhaul is live on the game’s PTR, and people are really putting her new kit through its paces. Thanks to the magic of custom games, Overwatch players have taken to spawning as many Symmetra shields as possible and watching as they sail into the sky like celestial frisbees. Until they collide with something,…

We have “Boop.” I repeat, we have “Boop.” Symmetra isn’t the only one getting important fixes in today’s OverwatchPTR update.

Welcome To Symmetra Hell

The Symmetra revamp is now live on Overwatch’s PTR. In other news, we all live in hell now, but at least the weather’s alright. Nibel captured the madness from PikaIsCool’s stream. And of course: So there you go. Now you’ve got something to look forward to when you log onto the PTR this evening. Or…

Blizzard Is Giving Overwatch‘s Symmetra Two Ultimates

For a little while, Blizzard’s acknowledged that Symmetra is too much of a situational hero. Now they’re doing something about that. In a new developer video, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan explained that a new version of Symmetra will soon be coming to the game’s PTR. Nu-mmetra will be the first Overwatch hero to have…

A supremely adorable 3-year-old doles out names to the Overwatch heroes in this new video. Spoiler: Sombra is “tickle.”

An Overwatch Player Called For A Ceasefire Just When I Needed It

Normally when I’m feeling down, I steer clear of multiplayer games. Competition is rad, but it can turn even kindhearted people into massive bags of Flaming Hot Cheetos, only all the Cheetos are dicks. Or at least, that used to be my policy. Then Overwatch happened. The world has not been a kind place lately.…