Overwatch

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.

Somebody took Overwatch’s Reaper and replaced his sound effects with Seinfeld clips. This creation by elliobot is equal parts great and terrible. Unfortunately, you can’t download it as a mod for the game (that’d be cheating, probably), but you can watch, listen, and dream

Overwatch Fans Have Turned Soldier 76 Into A Dad

Most Overwatch characters are not related to each other, but as far as the community is concerned? The roster might as well be a big ‘ol family. Soldier 76, with his grumpy gruffness and ample experience in the field, is of course the dad. [This post is a part of a larger series examining how…

Overwatch Map Glitch Reveals Entire Second Map

Ever gaze into the hoary peaks of Overwatch’s Nepal map and wonder what’s out there? What lies beyond the map space’s endless combat purgatory, Blizzard’s tiny death island? A couple Overwatch players managed to break free. Here’s what they found. In this video, hulkman503 and friend of hulkman503 demonstrate how to break outside Nepal’s usual…

What Ana Amari Says About Overwatch

Overwatch’s new hero Ana Amari is a badass support sniper who can shoot you with bullets to heal you or just shoot you to kill you. In this video, we’ll take a closer look at her mechanics and what they communicate. What does Ana tell us about Overwatch? What does she tell us about AAA…

Overwatch characters can be really mean. Wanna hear them insult you and say how disappointed they are for nearly two minutes? You are beautiful and don’t deserve it, but Video Game Vittles has you covered. Don’t feel too bad, though. Muselk made an Overwatch sadness antidote, which you’ll find below.

Overwatch Update Buffs Ana, Nerfs McCree

Fans: “BUFF ANA! NERF MCCREE (AGAIN)!” Blizzard: “OK.” McCree: “Does this mean it is no longer high noon?” People asked, and Blizzard delivered. The latest Overwatch PC patch makes some slight alterations to Ana and McCree that will (hopefully) put them back in line with people’s expectations. Here are the relevant bits of the patch…

It’s (Literally) High Noon

Today on Highlight Reel we have well-placed bombs, Ana teams, immolated characters, slams, 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! NBA 2k16 –Bogut Amazing…

Three Anas Can Get An Overwatch Player Kicked From A Match

Overwatch’s new sniper mom hero Ana, it turns out, has secret trolling capacities. Ana’s “Sleep Dart,” which makes enemies unconscious for a few seconds, can actually render a player inactive and kicked from the game. If you collect three Anas around an enemy and keep that enemy constantly asleep, that player will get removed from…

Overwatch‘s D.Va Is So Good Now

Last week Overwatch got a big update with a new character and a bunch of balance tweaks. The new sniper Ana got a lot of attention, but some of the less obvious tweaks are just as big a deal. Chief among them: A remarkably involved buff to the mech-driving pro gamer D.Va, which has transformed…

Overwatch‘s Lucio Quietly Got A Big Buff

Game updates are weird. Sometimes developers don’t mention major changes because… well, I don’t really know. Depends on the game and the change. In Overwatch’s case, Lucio is now much better at both being a skater boy and saying see you later boy. As ProfessorGanymede demonstrates in the following video, Lucio’s skating got a big…

Overwatch Game Interrupted By Wild Flock Of Mercys

Today on Highlight Reel we pessimistic horses, confusing skull clubs, wild Mercys, Battlefield plays, 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! Rainbow 6 Siege…