If you're still playing Overwatch 2 in hopes of it returning to OW1's glory days somehow, you might have noticed most events and collaborations nowadays are built around skins rather than actual playable content. Anyway, a collaboration with My Hero Academia is coming on October 17.
]]>Blizzard is celebrating World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary this year, and to do so it's… collaborating with itself by putting some WoW skins in Overwatch 2.
]]>The Esports World Cup has begun, bringing many of the most popular competitive games under one roof in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This kicks off an almost two month-long battle over ridiculous amounts of prize money, which a vast majority of esports teams and competitors are fighting for.
]]>Activision Blizzard is currently hiring for an unannounced game, and are looking for multiple senior staff to fill up the ranks on this project. This includes a creative director, design director for combat AI, senior art direct, and more.
]]>Overwatch 2 is starting to feel a touch pointless, as a new report is claiming that the game is abandoning PvE altogether.
]]>In somewhat surprising news, Johanna Faries has been appointed as the head of Blizzard Entertainment. Faries is mostly known for her work at Activision, where she was most recently the chief of the Call of Duty franchise.
]]>Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller has taken to Twitter to offer a bit of clarity regarding the passive healing abilities that season nine of the game will give to every hero. As it turns out, he reckons revealing that little tweak on its own might not have been the best idea.
]]>Blizzard just can't help but make some baffling changes to Overwatch 2, the latest being an upcoming one that will give every hero a passive healing ability.
]]>Blizzard has revealed a brand-new hero for Overwatch 2 during its Blizzcon Opening Ceremony. Mauga is coming to the game.
]]>BlizzCon 2023 kicked off yesterday and you can watch Day 2 right here.
]]>It looks like Microsoft’s recently completed deal to acquire Activision Blizzard is already resulting in a slight bump to the amount of people who’re considering subscribing to Xbox Game Pass.
]]>It's finally happened: Overwatch 2 is getting a collaboration with K-pop group Le Sserafim, something that felt like it was always going to happen.
]]>Microsoft has officially closed its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard.
]]>BlizzCon 2023 takes place in November, and ahead of the event, the studio is offering folks two paid bundles featuring in-game goodies to celebrate; however, many players of Blizzard games are unhappy with the purchase prices.
]]>Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller has released a post talking about the game being heavily review bombed on Steam upon its launch last week.
]]>It's really not been a great launch for Overwatch 2 on Steam, as it is now the worst rated game on Steam of all time.
]]>The day has arrived, folks. Hell has frozen over, etc. Blizzard has released a game on Steam (the first of many). Unfortunately, the studio picked Overwatch 2 to start off this new venture.
]]>John Cena (yes, that John Cena), is now officially a part of Overwatch lore, with the wrestler-turned-actor helping to show off the game's story missions.
]]>Blizzard has announced it is bringing select games to Steam, starting with Overwatch 2.
]]>Overwatch 2 may not be seeing any new story content post the initial batch of three levels coming this august, according to executive producer Jared Neuss who spoke about the topic on a recent livestream.
]]>Overwatch 2 is getting an animated mini-series next week, and it looks to be a prequel exploring the Omnic Crisis.
]]>Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller has discussed how the shooter series was "born from the ashes" of Project Titan following the cancellation of its Hero Mode.
]]>Following their split earlier this year, NetEase is reportedly suing Blizzard over the refunds for games no longer available in China.
]]>Lifeweaver only just joined Overwatch 2 a couple of weeks ago, but he's already getting some big changes.
]]>In a reveal shared to Twitter by Blizzard, Overwatch 2 fans will soon be in receipt of a new, blossoming support hero with a floral theme.
]]>Following the crossover between Overwatch 2 and One Punch Man, game director Aaron Keller has shared that you can expect another one sometime this year.
]]>Jon Spector, Overwatch 2's commercial leader and vice president, is leaving after six years with the developer.
]]>It turns out that the meta in Overwatch 2 isn't all that important after all, as players prefer playing as their favourite character over who's meant to be the best.
]]>Overwatch 2 is quickly approaching Season 3, and has detailed what to expect of the new season in a new blog post. On top of Asian Mythology-themed skins, Overwatch 2 will also introduce a new map, host a Valentine's Day event, and add an unexpected crossover with One Punch Man.
]]>Overwatch 2 Season 3 is dropping next week, and Blizzard has shown off a new map that will be arriving when the season arrives, Antarctic Peninsula.
]]>Overwatch 2 has shared an all-new update for its Defense Matrix Initiative, which is focused on curbing “gameplay sabotage, abusive chat, and cheating.”
]]>Blizzard game director Aaron Keller has addressed some of the issues Overwatch 2 players are still experiencing with its ranked mode in a recent blog post.
]]>Blizzard’s latest event for Overwatch 2 has arrived, just in time to celebrate the Lunar New Year. The event has been detailed in a blog post from Blizzard, and has introduced new skins, made festive changes to maps, and brought back Arcade Brawls.
]]>There are so many sub-genres of shooter that the best FPS games you can play right now vary wildly based on your preferences. After all, there’s no concrete formula when it comes to developing a first-person shooter: there are multiplayer battle royales, action-adventure shoot ‘em ups, and innovative takes on the genre which blend unique mechanics into the mix.
]]>It looks like Blizzard is listening to player feedback, and has made it easier to unlock the new hero in Overwatch 2 Season 2, Ramattra.
]]>The stage is set for victory. You and your allies have the enemy cornered as the clock ticks into overtime, and there’s seemingly no way you can fail – or so you think. Suddenly, your slightly damaged healer falls back and says “Come to me for healing!” So your tank does, departing the frontline and getting their wounds patched up. Your other healer is in a corner somewhere, staying out of danger.
]]>Overwatch 2’s next season, which arrives on December 6, is shaping up to be equal parts exciting and festive, with plenty of new content for players to sink their teeth into.
]]>A recent bug that has given Tracer a major buff in Overwatch 2 was expected to have the character disabled, but Blizzard says that won't be the case.
]]>Blizzard has started testing audio transcription in Overwatch 2 in an effort to fight back against verbal abuse in the game's voice chat.
]]>Blizzard is changing how the season passes will work going forward in Overwatch 2.
]]>Overwatch 2 has been out for well over a month, and I’ve been sucked back into Blizzard’s hero shooter in an alarmingly intense way. It’s as if I was 16 again, losing my nights trying to climb the competitive ranks. 'One more game' turns into five, and before you know it, it’s 1AM – enough time for just one more match, I think.
]]>It sounds like Blizzard is ramping up against cheating in Overwatch 2, as it reportedly threatens to take legal action against a big cheat provider.
]]>No matter which way you slice it, Overwatch 2 is an overwhelming success. Yes, the launch was terrible. Yes, no matter where you look people are bitching about the battle pass or the monetisation. Yes, people are even calling for the return of loot boxes. But – despite all that, and the sentiment from all the game's social media platforms being negative – the game has still managed to pull in 35 million people since launch.
]]>Yesterday, during the Overwatch League Grand Finals, Blizzard announced Ramattra, a new tank hero for Overwatch 2, is coming to the game in December.
]]>She's a ninja. She's a healer. She trained in with fan-favourite heroes, Genji and Hanzo. She's got a pet fox spirit. She's cute. She can cleanse you of most of the game's debuffs. What's not to love about Kiriko? Well, it depends who you ask. Because a month down the line, the jury is still very much out on Kiriko in Overwatch 2.
]]>Your Overwatch disc is useless, now. Completely useless. Slide it into your console, and it won't boot the game – because there is no game to boot. Overwatch is dead, long live the free-to-play Overwatch 2.
]]>Blizzard is putting Mei on ice (thank you). The Overwatch 2 hero will be disabled and unavailable to use in-game until at least December 15 as the developer fixes an issue with her Ice Wall ability.
]]>We’ve been pretty vocal about Overwatch 2 lately, and not for the greatest of reasons. Primarily, we’ve had a lot to say about the game's poor monetisation, especially compared to its predecessor.
]]>When Overwatch 2 was announced, Blizzard made a big song and dance about one key difference that’d set the title apart from the first game: PvE. The developer made a huge deal of the Story missions that’d come to the game in the sort-of sequel – and rightly so! For the first time, you’d get to take on Null Sector in the lush, vibrant Overwatch world. No longer would the game’s brilliant and complicated story be tucked away in animated shorts, comics, or weird ARGs.
]]>Overwatch 2 will actually receive some balance changes before the second season, despite what Blizzard originally said.
]]>By this point, if you haven’t heard about Overwatch’s aggressive monetization and customer dissatisfaction, you must have been living under a rock (or you’re more offline than we are, in which case, well done). Whether it’s issues with the battle pass or complaints about how the Halloween Terror event is being run, players have got quite a few gripes with the newly-launch free-to-play shooter.
]]>In Overwatch 2, right now, there’s a special Halloween Terror event live for players in-game. In order to kick this limited time event off, Blizzard patched the game and pushed out a small update for console and PC players. Since then, however, a decent chunk of players have been hit with server error LC-208. The error was known before the update, but since the Halloween Terror event kicked off, it's seen a disproportionate rise in cases – just check the game's subreddit or look on Twitter.
]]>There have been some fairly unpopular changes to the way Overwatch 2 does its UI. Whether its the options menu being moved to a more difficult-to-find place on the main menu, or the lack of feedback cards at the end of a round, it’s safe to say Blizzard hasn’t really nailed the landing with UI and UX on the new game.
]]>Back in the day, the Overwatch Halloween Terror events were something the community came together to celebrate. The event first kicked off way back in 2016, the same year the first game launched. The seasonal event would then kick off every year after, featuring exclusive cosmetics, seasonal loot boxes, and an exclusive brawl in the form of Junkenstein's Revenge.
]]>If you're curious about who the best tank in Overwatch 2 is right now, all the best players are choosing Zarya.
]]>We've been working out quite a lot about Overwatch 2 since it launched earlier in the month. Our guides team has put a lot of effort into figuring out who the best Overwatch 2 heroes are, for example, and we've been thinking long and hard about how the game does (and doesn't) deal with loot boxes.
]]>Overwatch 2 seems to be suffering from a bug that makes Lucio players wearing a particular skin a lot easier to spot.
]]>The wait will soon be over for Overwatch 2 players who have found themselves mainless over the past few days. Both Bastion on Torbjorn are headed back into the roster as of October 25. Finally, the game will be good again now that our favourite robotic boy is making a comeback. Torbjorn coming along is good too, I guess.
]]>One of the best things about graphics card hardware from Nvidia is the software that accompanies it. In a tight, closely competitive competition between it and AMD, software has always been one of the key differentiators. In the last hardware generation, Nvidia added a new piece of software that I casually dismissed - but as the 3000 series generation drew to a close, I finally tried it - and found myself hooked on it.
]]>It's not been the best of launches for Overwatch 2; whether it was the long queue times, the way people were unable to log into the game, the broken heroes, or the grindy battle pass, Blizzard has been making a lot of news since the game launched earlier this month – and not really for the right reasons.
]]>Bastion mains are currently suffering some deep, dark sadness as a result of their best boy being removed from Overwatch 2. The character, a lovable robot who could turn into a rocket-spewing killing machine with their ultimate ability, was ripped from the game due to an easy-to-do and super overpowered bug, leaving the Bastion mains in a kind of depressive limbo.
]]>Blizzard has announced that within the first ten days of availability, peak daily players for Overwatch 2 were almost triple that of the original game.
]]>It's been a rough old launch week for Overwatch 2. As well as a languid and unrewarding battle pass, players have been plagued with connection issues that prevent them from even signing into the game. It's been the most Blizzard launch we've seen for some time.
]]>It’s time for some more news about that one game we love to complain about right now, and that’s – obviously – Overwatch 2.
]]>Back in June, we learned that Overwatch 2 would be ditching its controversial loot boxes. The industry celebrated, and why not? Various countries around the world have decreed that loot boxes equate to gambling, with the UK government demanding publishers put measures in place that safeguard children from the adverse effects of them. 18 European countries have also backed measures calling for loot box regulation.
]]>Overwatch 2 has been out for a decent amount of time now, enough of a stretch for the vast number of players to hopefully get through the login queues and try the hero shooter out for themselves. While the gameplay changes (or lack thereof) remain a hot button topic right now among the community, it’s the new battle pass system that really has people riled up, with some even looking back at the loot boxes of Overwatch 1 with newfound fondness.
]]>It’s safe to say that Overwatch 2 hasn’t had the smoothest launch since its release on October 4. On launch, servers were at full capacity while simultaneously being hit with DDoS attacks, meaning it was a long wait to get into a game you might be disconnected from.
]]>Overwatch 2 players are coming under fire a tad more than usual right now, thanks to a bug that allows Bastion to infinitely shoot their ultimate until their ultimate timer runs out. While you’re usually only able to use it three times before you’re kicked out, this glitch allows Bastion mains in the know to unload shot after shot for up to eight seconds — more than enough time to clear out an objective or kill most of a team.
]]>Overwatch 2 at one point featured a bug that caused players to purchase character skins accidentally.
]]>An Overwatch 2 Tier List is crucial if you’re looking for the best Overwatch 2 heroes right now, especially if you’re among many eager players jumping into the competitive matches. With the game launching on October 4, and now that the queues have died down a bit and server stability has improved, those diving deep into the competitive FPS title may be wondering what are the best Overwatch 2 heroes?
]]>Overwatch 2 is out, and is having a range of serious problems in its early days. This includes a massive DDOS attack that has led to server queues up in the 40,000s, as well as a a mandatory phone verification system for players (although this has now been removed for Overwatch 1 players). However, that doesn’t mean that original Overwatch players are out of the mud quite yet, as some are finding their hero roster locked away.
]]>As you may have noticed, Overwatch 2 is going through some serious launch problems. This has manifested in many ways, but the most pressing is a certain error message: Unable to Log you in to Overwatch 2. This is something numerous players have ran into, and has stopped many from jumping into the long awaited sequel to Blizzard’s free-to-play FPS.
]]>“Heroes never die.” That’s Overwatch’s little mantra – a motto you’ve probably heard a million times over if you or one of your teammates has ever been a Mercy main. It sort-of became a de facto rallying cry for the game, too: no matter how many times Blizzard slowed down the drip feed of new content, it always came back. Often with a bang. Like a true hero, Overwatch – or the original Overwatch at least – could never stay down.
]]>In a bid to keep player accounts protected and curb in-game toxicity, Blizzard added an SMS Protect system to Overwatch 2 for players. This system required all players, across all platforms, to have a phone number associated with their Battle.net accounts.
]]>Overwatch 2 became available less than 24 hours ago, and as expected, there have been some teething issues when it comes to accessing the game. This isn’t something we aren’t used to by any means, but experiencing queues of up to 40,000 players at once still saw me go to bed early rather than stick around to try and play.
]]>If you have never played Overwatch, and plan on jumping into Overwatch 2, you will have some work to do if you want to add heroes from the original game to your roster.
]]>Another hero has been announced for Overwatch 2 and Blizzard has provided more information on the game's Season One Battle Pass.
]]>What is presumably the next hero that was set to be announced for Overwatch 2 has been leaked via an unfinished animated short.
]]>Gaming is a pricey hobby, but not every game comes with an up-front cost — and indeed, the best free-to-play games never require you to spend a single penny of your own cash in order to enjoy them to the fullest.
]]>Overwatch players can now merge multiple accounts to carry progression and in-game cosmetics over to Overwatch 2 on a single profile.
]]>A survey sent to Overwatch 2 players suggested the game could have $45 skins, but Blizzard has officially commented to say it doesn't represent the final pricing.
]]>As of today, there are only two months until Overwatch 2 is released, and if you're hoping to jump into another beta test, you will be disappointed.
]]>A recently spotted Overwatch 2 survey sure seems to be implying that a single skin could cost as much as $45.
]]>The original Overwatch's days seem to be numbered as a standalone product as it will integrate with Overwatch 2.
]]>Overwatch 2 is releasing on October 4 as a free-to-play live experience, and the game will feature regular seasonal updates and a Battle Pass.
]]>Overwatch 2 will launch into early access on October 4, 2022.
]]>TheOverwatch 2 beta is going on as we speak, and if you are participating, you'll be pleased to know more content is headed your way.
]]>Overwatch 2 has had its closed PvP beta out for a little while now, providing everyone invited with an avenue to try the next big step for the colossal Activision Blizzard hero shooter. The first big opportunity to see the game and all its changes, this beta marks an important moment for the sequel. After all, everyone knows that first impressions are hard to shake.
]]>The Overwatch 2 closed PvP beta kicks off next week, and testers will find changes have been made to some of the heroes, and a couple have received major reworks.
]]>Uh oh, it looks like a gameplay video for one of the new Overwatch 2 characters has been leaked ahead of schedule. First reported by VGC earlier today, it looks as though the trailer was accidentally released on the official Taiwanse youtube channel before the planned release date.
]]>Overwatch 2 is one of the most highly-anticipated games around, thanks to the continued popularity of the series' iconic characters.
]]>Some early UI images from Overwatch 2 have been shown off online via Artstation, an online art portfolio platform where artists from a variety of backgrounds show off their work. Originally caught by Attack of the Fanboy, It’s here that Jayson Kirby - former UI designer at Activision Blizzard - published a variety of early UI designs from the upcoming team FPS.
]]>Blizzard has announced a date for the first Overwatch 2 closed beta which will test the game's PvP feature.
]]>Closed alpha testing for Overwatch 2 PvP begins today in select regions and includes Blizzard employees, Overwatch League pros, and a few other select groups to help prepare for wider testing.
]]>It's been a big week in gaming. On January 18, we felt seismic waves ripple through the industry as Microsoft announced that it was set to acquire Activision Blizzard; the beleaguered company behind some of gaming's biggest IP that has recently been embroiled in a messy, public discrimination and harrassment lawsuit brought by the state of California.
]]>Lego Overwatch hasn’t had the greatest time of things. I always felt the two brands were a bit of a weird fit – but it was never exactly successful despite having some cool sets. After two ‘waves’ of Overwatch building kits, Lego seemingly canned the majority of a third wave of Overwatch sets thanks to the tepid response. A couple of sets survived, with one planned to release next month - but that’s now been shelved thanks to the ongoing disaster that is the public-facing image and internal operations of Activision Blizzard. Disgraced executives refusing to resign may very well have hammered the final nail into the Lego Overwatch theme.
]]>LEGO has announced it will delay its Overwatch 2 Titan set as it currently reviewing the partnership it has with Activision Blizzard.
]]>Looks like we will have to wait until at least 2023 to play Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2.
]]>You may have heard that Activision Blizzard is in the process of changing MCcree's name in Overwatch because the developer wanted to name the character "something that better represents" what the game stands for, rather than have McCree keep the moniker that was inspired by Diablo 4 lead level designer Jesse McCree.
]]>Blizzard Entertainment has revealed what new changes it will be making to Sombra in Overwatch 2 as it starts to lift the lid on some of the changes it'll be making to the game's established heroes going forward.
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