Overwatch

Blizzard Removing Overwatch Butt Pose After Fan Complaint [UPDATE]

Today’s big Internet controversy involves butts, as these things so often do. An Overwatch player complained about one character’s butt-centric victory pose, prompting the game’s director to say they’re removing it. When Overwatch’s closed beta returned earlier this year, Blizzard added skins, emotes, and poses for characters. Among other things, fast-talking, faster-walking time travel demoness…

Blizzard Patches Masturbation Gag Out Of Overwatch

In major multiplayer games like Overwatch, what comes after a big patch is almost more interesting than what it’s in it. This is certainly a, um, standout instance of that. As part of the latest big Overwatch beta patch, Blizzard added a new escort level, Route 66. The level is home to the notorious Deadlock…

Big Overwatch Update Makes The Game Better In A Lot Of Small Ways

Overwatch got a new update this week, and it’s a big one. It’s also a good one, for the most part. In addition to the usual balance tweaks, the ramifications of which will likely become more clear with time, the update added five main things: a new escort map called Route 66, a new Hearthstone-inspired…

Somebody Made An Entire Game About Trying To Get Into The Overwatch Beta

Overwatch finally has a release date, but the closed beta is still humming along, with frequent updates tweaking balance and adding new maps and modes. Everybody wants in. Some, uh, more than others. Darkust#6214‘s Overwatch Beta: The RPG is a surprisingly robust text game about the process of watching, waiting, and hoping beyond hope for…

Blizzard Channels Pixar In The First Overwatch Short

Back in November I said I was more excited about the upcoming Overwatch animated shorts than the actual online shooter. Now that the eight-minute short teased at Blizzcon is here, I stand by that statement. This is wonderful. Valve did some amazing things with its Team Fortress 2 character movies, but this is on a…

Overwatch‘s Character Skins Are Getting Ridiculous

When Overwatch’s beta returned earlier this year, it added a progression system that rewards players with cosmetic loot like character skins. Initially, most of them were simple recolors. Now, though, they’re getting kinda ridiculous. The most recent Overwatch update brought with it a handful of new skins that are more in line with the rarest…

Overwatch’s New Map Is A Lovely Place To Die Horribly 

Overwatch recently got a big update, with a brand new Greece-inspired map as the centerpiece. It does not disappoint. Now that I’ve played a fair bit of Overwatch, I’ve come to appreciate that the game isn’t fun simply because of colorful characters and a wide range of abilities, but rather the interplay between maps and…

IGN Ad Leaks Overwatch Release Date [UPDATE]

We already knew that Overwatch would be out this spring; now, thanks to a leak from IGN’s advertising folks, we have more specifics. Blizzard’s hero-based shooter will release on May 24. The news isn’t official yet—as a publicly traded company, Activision-Blizzard has to do things very formally—but this is pretty clear. Overwatch is currently in…

Overwatch Player Goes From Hero To Zero In Seconds

There’s nothing more heartwarming than a good comeback… unless you’re on the receiving end of said comeback. Jonathan Larsson pulled off a beautiful play as Tracer, resulting in a four-player multi-kill. Each team is made up of six players, so it was essentially a minor extinction event. The other team was getting awfully close to…

Overwatch Player Gets Tackled Off A Cliff, Survives

Jellanders brings us this excellent Overwatch moment in which a Genji player makes a brilliant recovery after an attempted suicide kill by Reinhardt. Anybody else getting Smash Bros vibes from this one? Here’s the full thing: To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @vahn16

Nothing but (battle) net. Overwatch player alphajew actually scored a basket with one of the starter area basketballs on new map Lijiang Tower. I’ve been trying to do this for days. Let us all bow before our new Master of Hoops.

Turrets Are Making Overwatch Players Miserable

A couple characters in Overwatch, Torbjörn and Bastion, use turrets. They are pretty ridiculous. Automated turrets are a staple in first-person shooters, including obvious Overwatch inspiration Team Fortress 2. Torbjörn actually has quite a bit in common with TF2’s Engineer class; he even bonks the crap out of his handy dandy fun-sized murder machine to…

Overwatch Is Still Giving Out ‘Play of the Game’ For Doing Nothing

Overwatch is remarkably polished for a game in beta testing, but… it’s still a game in beta testing. Overwatch’s “play of the game” feature is great. It’s a nice way to cap off a match, showing a player wrecking shop in the kills or heals department. When you earn it, it feels amazing. When somebody…

Overwatch‘s New Progression System Is A Big Step In The Right Direction

Overwatch is back! And in case you were worried, no, Blizzard didn’t ruin it. Overwatch is, broadly speaking, very good—and has been since its first closed beta late last year. It’s a fun, lightning-fast team-based shooter that draws a surprising amount of character inspiration from MOBAs like League of Legends and DOTA 2. What Blizzard…

Here’s All The New Stuff In Overwatch Today

After a two-month-long hiatus, Blizzard just released their first-person shooter named after an XCOM defensive technique back into the wild. Good timing. Though Overwatch was already pretty great during its initial beta, it definitely needed… more. A winter slumber in the Blizzard video game development cave appears to be just what the doctor (who I…

The Overwatch closed beta is coming back next week. Starting February 9, anyone who had access to the beta for Blizzard’s hero shooter last year will be able to rejoin and check out the new mode and changes.

The Overwatch beta will be back next month, Blizzard says. They’re planning on adding a new game mode to the hero-based shooter that will launch when it returns

Curious about the future of Overwatch’s progression system? Here’s director Jeff Kaplan talking about how they’re iterating on the design for Blizzard’s character-based shooter, which will re-enter beta early next year.

Overwatch is going to release new characters and maps as free updates, rather than paid DLC, game director Jeff Kaplan said in a developer update today. Previously nobody knew for certain how Blizzard would monetize this aspect of their game. Phew! via Polygon

Overwatch’s beta is taking a break. On Dec 10th Blizzard’s team-based shooter will go offline for an “extended” period. The break is temporary; the beta will return in mid-to-late January. Blizzard plans to use the time to make improvements to the core game and work on features like spectating and progression.