Overwatch

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…

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…