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Blizzard Warns Players Not To Use Overwatch‘s Lucioball Character Glitch

Overwatch’s Lucioball mode is all fun and games until D.Va or Widowmaker shows up, and somebody loses an eye. Or a head. It’s a bizarre glitch, and Blizzard has some advice for people taking advantage of it: don’t. What began as something of a funny prank has turned into a game-breaking exploit. Some people have…

More A-Mei-Zing Overwatch Cosplay

Still not sorry Cosplay by Henchwench, photos by R.A Photography Like…this is absolutely perfect. From the fur to the quality of the props and accessories, I cannot see how you can do Mei better than this. UPDATE: It can’t get better, but it can get just as good. Cosplay by Bananzers, photo by Mojo

Winston And Reaper Take On McCree In One Raw Overwatch Diss Track

YouTube’sCheezy McWiggles weaves together voice clips from Overwatch into a double-team takedown of the game’s resident cowboy, bluntly titled “Fuck McCree.” Warning: immature language, profanity, Reaper trying to be all cool. While some of the lyrics rub me the wrong way, I have to admit the technique Cheezy used to build words from sound slips…

Overwatch player acutefatcat lost their whole team, so the other team decided to be cool about it. I’ve heard a few stories like this, and it warms my heart each time. Overwatch can be toxic sometimes, but it’s fostered a uniquely rad community in some places. Here’s the full clip: And here’s a pic of…

Overwatch‘s First Competitive Season Ends In Two Weeks

Overwatch’s competitive mode has been a divisive subject for much of its first season, but Blizzard stated upfront that change is in the cards. Season two is just around the corner. Blizzard announced that season one will end on August 17 at 5 PM PT. Season two is currently scheduled to kick off on September…

Days Later, Overwatch Fans Can’t Figure Out The ‘Sky Code’ Mystery

Overwatch fans’ investigation into the identity of unreleased stealth hero Sombra is moving slowly, even after game director Jeff Kaplan personally gave them a push along. Over 5,000 Overwatch fans have been working to solve the puzzle since Tuesday without much success. In July, Kaplan told Kotaku reporter Nathan Grayson that “Sombra will let people…

Overwatch Has Some Great Skins

Tonight's Fine Art looks at the work of Airborn Studios

Overwatch‘s Gibraltar Map, Recreated In Team Fortress 2

No, Overwatch is not just “Blizzard’s version of Team Fortress 2” like some folks expected it to be. Still, you’ve gotta admit there’s some overlap. A Steam user named Srpski Čekić took that comparison to its logical conclusion with a remarkably faithful recreation of the escort map from Overwatch’s Watchpoint: Gibraltar. PC Gamer shot some…

11 Fans Who Love Overwatch So Much, They Got Tattoos

It’s no news that Overwatch is in vogue, but for some fans, the game is more than just the flavor of the week. Overwatch heroes’ elaborate backstories and compelling character design has led some players to identify with them on a deep, personal level. And what happens when people really, really like something? They get…

Overwatch Glitch Makes D.Va Appear In Lucioball

Lucioball, a new limited-time Overwatch mode clearly inspired by Rocket League, is named such because, well, it’s an all-Lucio deal. Somehow, though, D.Va showed up in one guy’s game. BlameTheController posted a video of his peculiar Lucioball match, and yep, that sure is D.Va on the field, complete with an arsenal that transforms her into…

Is Overwatch‘s D.Va Overpowered After The Buff?

Last week on Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason and I talked about my new favorite Overwatch hero D.Va and whether or not she got buffed a bit too much. Short version of my take: Nah, not really. For the longer version, watch the excerpt in the video below. (We’re experimenting with pulling out highlights from the podcast…

Blizzard Defends Overwatch’s Limited-Time Summer Games Loot

Overwatch’s new Summer Games event adds more than 100 new emotes, sprays, icons, intros, and skins to the game, but there’s a catch: they come in randomized boxes, and you can’t buy individual items no matter how many coins you’ve saved up. There’s been quite a bit of outcry about that, especially among players who…

Harsh.

Sweet, matchmaking found me a game! I guess the servers are working after all! I… oh. Damn.

Overwatch Fans Find New Clues About The Mysterious Hero Sombra

About 2,000 Overwatch fans are currently hard at work deciphering the game’s latest clue about the unreleased hero Sombra. Yesterday, Blizzard published a video announcing their Summer Games seasonal event, which, Redditors think, surreptitiously holds new hints about Sombra, allegedly a hacker hero whose name translates to “Shadow.” A day later, these “Game Detectives” have…

Overwatch, Hearthstone Knocked Offline By DDoS Attack (Update: Fixed)

Looks like some banned Overwatch players might be reacting a little more poorly than we’d first thought, with a DDoS attack knocking the game—and by extension a lot of other Blizzard titles—out of service this afternoon. UPDATE: Fixed: Original story continues below: It started with login issues: Then: And: Blizzard has since said that “Our…

Overwatch‘s New Rocket League Mode Is A Very Good Time

Today Overwatch got a new game mode called Lucioball. And by “new game mode” I mean that Blizzard has basically turned Overwatch into Rocket League. Do you know what’s pretty fun? An Overwatch version of Rocket League Lucioball is a new 3v3 mode that’s currently serving as the weekly brawl. It’s part of an Overwatch…

Overwatch Gets Rocket League-Like Summer Games Mode

Overwatch today launched its first seasonal event, and with it comes the new gameplay mode Lúcioball. As an introduction to Overwatch’s Summer Games, Lúcioball will have players battling it out on a “futuristic soccer field” in a Rocket League-esque seasonal soccer brawl set in Rio de Janeiro. Overwatch’s Assistant Game Director Aaron Keller elaborates on…

Banned Overwatch Players Are Not Reacting Well

Overwatch cheaters yesterday were squashed under Blizzard’s ban hammer. Predictably, they are whining on cheating forums about it. In the second banwave Blizzard has sent against Overwatch cheaters, players who use bots to boost play were removed from the game. By early June, just a few weeks after the game’s release, thousands of players had…

Today, Overwatch cheaters were squashed under Blizzard’s ban hammer. Players who use a “triggerbot,” which shoots for players when their cross-hairs are over an enemy, or an “aimbot,” which aids accuracy, appear to have been banned en masse. “Justice rains from above,” quoth the hero Pharah.