Overwatch

Cosplaying Overwatch play of the game animations? This is new. That’s Qpaxas Mei. David Gibson, meanwhile, was an animator on the game, whose Overwatch work we’ve featured on Fine Art

Embrace Tranquility. And Also This Overwatch Cosplay.

Shellshocked’s choice of Overwatch cosplay needed a little more work than most other characters, but it was all very much worth it. We actually featured this costume in our “Best of” roundup, but I figured it was worth its own showcase here given how impressive it is (and the chance to show some more shots…

Overwatch Fans Keep Finding Clues About A New Unreleased Character

Late last night, an innocuous post on the Overwatch subreddit provoked a frenzy to unearth secrets about the supposed Overwatch stealth hero Sombra, who has been teased over the last few months. “So this is complete tinfoil and I’m prepared for this post to go under the rug,” wrote redditor Colonelcactus before posting a clue…

A Few Small Problems With Overwatch‘s Ana

Ana is now available for everyone on PC to play, and like I said in my original assessment, she’s great. After playing her for a bit today on live servers, though, I do have a few issues. Ana is a support sniper. She does the heals and the keels. My biggest issue with her doesn’t…

Overwatch’s new hero, Ana, is now live for PC players. A new patch just dropped, bringing the recent round of major PTR changes over to regular servers. For more on what’s next, check out my recent interview with Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan

Overwatch‘s Director On Competitive Mode, Controversies, And The Future

Overwatch has been out for a couple months now, and the honeymoon period is over. Competitive mode is a divisive subject, and game balance has been a rollercoaster. Meanwhile, there’s been controversy around things like hero skins and, er, porn. I quizzed game director Jeff Kaplan about all of it. Kotaku: Competitive has been out…

Hindu Leader Wants Blizzard To Drop Symmetra’s Devi Skin From Overwatch

Religious statesman and president of the Universal Society of Hinduism Rajan Zed released a statement today, urging Blizzard and Activision to remove an Overwatch skin he said “trivialized Hinduism’s highly revered goddesses.” Devi is the great goddess of Hinduism, worshiped in many different form and names since prehistoric times. While Symmetra’s Devi skin (and its…

How Blizzard Is Trying To Fix Overwatch‘s Toxicity Problem

When Overwatch first launched, people were remarkably non-shitty to each other as they joined hands/mecha gorilla paws and entered a world of bright color and positivity. Now that the game’s been out for a bit, however, things have taken a turn. In my experience, Overwatch is still significantly less infected by The Toxic Plague than…

Overwatch As Fine Art

Miguel Mercado is an artist from The Philippines whose Overwatch images aren’t made for memes. They’re made for framing and display. Most of these were made as a fan (indeed, we featured one of them a while back), but his latest Ana portrait was a request from Blizzard. You can see more of Miguel’s work…

Zenyatta Gotta Go Fast

Today on Highlight Reel we have fast Zenyattas, beyblades of death, World War 1 physics 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! Battlefield 1…

Some Quick Tips To Help You Be Better With Ana In Overwatch

Overwatch’s sniper mom supreme, Ana, has been on the game’s public test servers for a couple days now. That might not seem like a ton of time, but for players obsessed understanding Overwatch’s every last in and out, it’s plenty. People have been experimenting with Ana’s abilities, pushing them to their limits in hopes of…

The Internet Reacts To Overwatch‘s Badass New Sniper Mom

Overwatch’s new hero, Ana, is a lot of things we don’t typically see in video games. She’s a sniper who heals people, an older woman, and a mother of a lady who lobs rockets at people’s faces for a living. Overwatch fans already adore her. In Overwatch’s lore, Ana is the mother of Pharah “justice…

Overwatch‘s New Sniper Hero, Ana, Is So Much Fun To Play

Mother knows best. Overwatch’s new hero, Ana, is currently on the game’s public test servers. I’ve spent the past hour-and-a-half trying her out, and while this should hardly be taken as an in-depth appraisal, she is, so far, damn fun to play. Ana is a support sniper. The basic idea—a sniper who shoots people in…

Overwatch Is Getting Some Big Balance Changes

A new patch just went live on Overwatch’s public test servers, and it’s a doozy. It introduces Ana, the new support sniper/Mom of the Century, but that’s just the beginning. The patch notes are quite a journey, but the gist is that a bunch of heroes’ ults now take more effort to charge because self-heals…

Blizzard Announces Overwatch‘s Next Hero: Ana

Get ready for heal-snipes. Blizzard today revealed the next playable character in Overwatch, and as had been rumored, it’s a long-range healer. Meet Ana. Ana, who is Pharah’s mother and a sniper support character, has a Biotic rifle that both heals allies and does “ongoing damage” to enemies. She’s also got a sleep dart (putting…

Overwatch‘s Tracer Is The Best And I Love Her

Every character in Overwatch is different. It’s one of the most obvious (and fascinating) things about the game. There are big characters, small characters, attack characters, support characters… and there’s Tracer, my new total favorite character. Tracer is easily the most iconic Overwatch hero—she’s was the “star” of the first big announcement movie and is…

Blizzard Is Changing Overwatch‘s Controversial Sudden Death Mode

Overwatch’s competitive mode has proven a contentious subject, to say the least. One thing pretty much everyone agrees on, however, is that the sudden death tiebreaker mode needs a serious overhaul. The good news: it’s getting one! The bad news: in the near future, tweaks will be slight. Blizzard isn’t Pharah ulting it into oblivion…

Overwatch’s Bring Your Daughter To Work Day

Overwatch cosplay is quicklymoving past literal recreation into the world of…more fanciful things. Here, for example, are Soldier: 76 and D.Va. Who are probably pausing for a photo on their way to McDonalds D.Va is Vanessa Wedge, Soldier: 76 is Auzzie L Epilogue: She got McDonalds.

Overwatch Player Takes Mei’s Trolling To New Heights

As a Mei player, I think most of the hate directed at the cute climatologist is just salt. But this? This definitely makes Mei seem like a giant asshole, and it’s amazing. 에마군_김재원 doesn’t just kill enemies: he uses Mei’s ice wall to launch the bodies into the air, like so: And just to rub…

Blizzard Taking Overwatch Cheat Maker To Court

Blizzard is suing German company Bossland over its sale of an Overwatch cheat program called Watchover Tyrant, which does things like reveal enemy player locations on a radar. As TorrentFreak report, this isn’t the first time Blizzard has gone after Bossland; the two have had a long-running battle over cheat programs in games like World…