Overwatch

Thanks. I don’t usually use sprays in multiplayer shooters, but now, thanks to Overwatch player kharnna, I finally understand the appeal. Here’s the full clip:

Some Great Plays From Overwatch‘s Open Beta

Overwatch’s open beta has been running for a day, and even then, this is only the early access portion of the show. Still, there’s been an unusually high concentration of excellent moments. First, here’s Harumiura with a textbook example of how to use Reinhardt. Set ‘em up, knock ‘em down. Really, really far down: Next,…

Overwatch Won’t Launch With Competitive Mode

Toward the end of its closed beta, Overwatch got an update that included ranked play and seasons. For some, it was the final piece of the puzzle, the competitive aspect that’d keep them coming back. Blizzard, however, is revamping it. Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan explained in a forum post: “We worked extremely hard to…

One Overwatch Character Has Been Around For More Than A Decade

Overwatch was announced at BlizzCon in 2014. It rose from the ashes of a longtime Blizzard MMO project called Titan, which had been in development for years and years only to meet the reaping scythe of cancellation. But Overwatch character Soldier 76 even predates that. Soldier 76 is Overwatch’s trusty Shoot Man. He’s a gruff…

Overwatch Ford F650 Supertruck Hits A Car At PAX East

Blizzard’s cross-promotion between Overwatch and Uber for PAX East ran into problems last night, when Soldier: 76’s Ford F650 Supertruck took out the side of a passenger vehicle. Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford was on the scene. Of all the people to stumble upon an Overwatch car accident. Randy Pitchford was exiting the main theater of…

Overwatch Player Is A Wall Riding Fiend

Rollerblading healer hero Lucio is one of my favorite characters to play in Overwatch. The simple act of skating around feels great, especially when you’re riding walls like gravity’s just another rail ripe for grinding. This guy, though, he’s turned it into an art form. Jamie Allegro sticks to walls like goddamn Spider-Man. Watch him…

A valiant Overwatch sacrifice. In this clip from silvert0rch, a Reinhardt player valiantly takes one for the team by charging a self-destructing D.Va mech and shoving it away from his allies. I will name the hammer in the toolbox under my kitchen sink after you, brave sir. Here’s the full thing:

Turns Out, You Can Counter Hanzo’s Ultimate In Overwatch

Overwatch is a game about interplay between many different heroes, some of whom represent entirely different subgenres of FPS. Despite the potential for unbalanced chaos, it all clicks. The reason? Details like this one. I’ve logged quite a few hours in Overwatch’s closed beta at this point, and until today, even I didn’t know about…

The Overwatch Beta Ends Next Week

Overwatch’s closed beta has been quite a ride. Between changes for the better, clever player strategies, and butts, it’s gotten everybody talking (or making entire games about how they’re missing out) on multiple occasions. Next week, it’s coming to a close. Blizzard just announced that Overwatch’s long-running closed beta will conclude on April 25. The…

Overwatch‘s Silliest New Strategy: Kill Rooms

Whether you’re an itsy bitsy baby Overwatch player or that Junkrat who keeps using his exploding tire to hunt me and only me (I WILL FIND YOUR HOME), you’ll fare about the same against a room plastered with death lasers: poorly. Popular Team Fortress 2 YouTuber Muselk has been branching out into Overwatch’s beta recently,…

That’s One Way To Play Overwatch

Blizzard’s shooter isn’t even out, yet some folks already found ways to play the game absolutely unintended ways. Instead of chasing each other on the map, these players have set up a silly orb deflecting mini-game. It’s a reminder of Team Fortress 2 days and Pyro Airblasts. Symmetra is firing her orb to the ninja…

Oh Man, This Overwatch Cosplay

Meet Korean coplay star Tasha, who as you’re about to see is straight up killing it as Overwatch’s Tracer We’ve featured her work many times on Kotaku previously, and with good reason: she’s one of the world’s best, and this Tracer is no exception. In keeping with the fact that this entire character’s personality and…

New Overwatch Update Adds Ranked Play, Seasons

The latest Overwatch update didn’t just give Tracer a different, slightly more in-character butt pose; it also gave players a reason to fight until they can’t fight anymore (that isn’t butts). I speak, of course, about competitive play. Now, if you so choose, you can play Overwatch’s beta to rank up throughout monthly seasons and…

Blizzcon 2016 is taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center in California on November 4 and 5. The $199 tickets will be sold in two batches on April 20 and 23. If you get one, you’re made of magic.

Overwatch Replaces Butt Pose With Strut Pose

Having decided to alter a victory pose in Overwatch following fan feedback, Blizzard have seemingly gone ahead and implemented the change. Users are reporting there’s a new pose in the game replacing it, and here’s what it looks like. For reference, here’s the old one: Via SteveO409 @ NeoGAF, here’s the new pose: Now that…

To Explain Netcode Properly, You Need Props

Sometimes discussions on forums can get a little out of hand. Fans are pretty good at going down the rabbit hole. Sometimes it goes into full-blown conspiracy theories. In this instance yes, you the fans, were right. You’ve worked out how Overwatch’s netcode works, and that’s made the programmers happy to talk about it in…

Overwatch‘s Tracer Has Some Powerful Abilities In Heroes of the Storm

Heroes of the Storm wouldn’t be a true Blizzard arena brawler without someone representing Overwatch. And finally, after all the characters added from Diablo or WoW, the first Overwatch hero is ready to make her debut Tracer looks like an assassin type hero here with a quite powerful basic ability: she can move while attacking.…

Widowmaker Aims To Kill In The Second Overwatch Animated Short

Thefirst bit of Pixar-quality Overwatch animation from Blizzard was touching. The second is downright chilling. Everybody’s favorite rear-end model co-stars in Widowmaker’s short story, attempting to stop the deadly assassin from taking out the metal face of the robot/human equality movement. It does not end the way I thought it would. Two down, two to…

Koreans Show How To Play Overwatch Properly

Players from South Korea usually dominate the competitive MOBA and RTS scenes, but watching Veniac’s montage of Koreans playing in the Overwatch beta, I’m sure they won’t have issues with Blizzard’s online shooter either. Amazing edit, full of perfect snipes, air shots and frags. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Overwatch Cosplay Will Never Forget The Butt Pose

One of the highlights of this year’s Sakura Con was this trio of Overwatch cosplayers. Note, just in case someone wants to take up arms, that these pics were snapped before the whole butt pose thing blew up, so this is just a homage to what was at the time a victory pose, not cosplay-as-commentary.…