overwatch

Official Site: Overwatch
Studio: Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date: May 24, 2016
Genre: Team-Based OFPS
Business Model: B2P
Platform: PC, Xbox One, PS4

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The Overwatch Summer Games are back

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You've been training for this moment all year long, and by "training" we mean "aggressively burping while sitting in your comfortable office chair." You're...
Teamwork!

Overwatch is bringing back another round of Summer Games in August

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The Summer Games are back in Overwatch starting next week on August 9th and running through the 30th, according to a teaser tweet Blizzard...

Activision-Blizzard Q2 2018: Acti-Blizz sees revenue jump, massive engagement without big releases

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Even in a quarter that didn't see a single major product or expansion release, Activision Blizzard made even more money than it did the...
Doooo not care

Overwatch League finals did not draw eyes on ESPN

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The Overwatch League finals were broadcast on ESPN, but odds are that if you watched them you did so on Twitch or other streaming...

London Spitfire topped this weekend’s Overwatch League world championship as second season franchise buy-ins climb

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The Overwatch League's first season grand finals have wrapped up, and the London Spitfire has emerged as the world victor. The Spitfire shut out...

The Daily Grind: What do you think about themed MMORPG guilds?

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Kotaku did a recent piece on "girls only" Overwatch groups that got me thinking about themed guilds. (As it turned out, the writer found...

Blizzard and Riot attended the International Olympic Committee’s e-sports summit this past weekend

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Over the last year, we've seen a ramp-up of high-level chatter about bringing e-sports to the Olympics. Last summer the co-president of the Paris Olympic...

Overwatch’s Wrecking Ball is already kicking ass and taking names

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When my husband logged off Overwatch last night, he put down his headset and said, "Yeah, Wrecking Ball is amazing, and I can't wait...

SuperData suggests Fortnite is ‘cannibalizing’ top online games as Epic’s value reaches $14B

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Last week, SuperData released a thinkpiece on how Fortnite isn't necessarily destroying the rest of the gaming industry, but hold up because this week...
Overwhatever.

Overwatch is performing a little surgery on its healers and planning another free PC weekend

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Healers are important in Overwatch, but they also have the potential to get out of hand. Sure, it's good to be able to patch...

World of Warcraft’s pre-expansion patch has a rough start as Blizzard levies bans and grants past content to subbers

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The rollout of yesterday's pre-expansion patch for World of Warcraft could have gone smoother. Much, much smoother. During the day, many players were completely...

Overwatch’s Hamster hero hits next week

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We're going to bet that a literal hamster ball (albeit a well-armed ball) as a hero is going to divide the Overwatch community. That's...

Ubisoft is not here for Rainbow Six Siege players’ toxic behavior

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Remember last spring when Ubisoft said it was getting serious about cracking down on toxicity in Rainbow Six Siege? The company said it was...

Overwatch League gets ESPN and Disney XD television contract

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Count this as a huge victory for Blizzard's attempt to legitimize and popularize its fledgling Overwatch League. The studio announced this week that it has...

Overwatch’s new looking for group system is a huge hit

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Who would have ever imagined that a Blizzard game's looking for group tool would be a big hit with players? Overwatch only recently expanded...

Overwatch players raised almost $13M to fight breast cancer in ‘Pink Mercy’ campaign

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Remember last spring when Blizzard ran that big "Pink Mercy" charity campaign in Overwatch? The company's run the numbers, and it turns out Overwatch...
Yes, it was this bad. It was always this bad.

Online games are avenues for hate group recruitment, according to former white supremacist leader

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Playing a game of linking awful online activities to white supremacist movements is like the worst possible variant of the old Six Degrees of...

Overwatch’s next hero is a… hamster ball?

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Remember Blizzard's tease from earlier this week, the one that set the internet to speculating on whether a wrecking ball might be Overwatch's next...
Overwhatever.

Overwatch adds positive player endorsements and the looking for group tool

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Who's a good-tempered Overwatch player? You! Yes, you are! And you know this because you just got an endorsement from some other player in...

SuperData’s May 2018 revenue report shows Fortnite slowing down, Pokemon Go picking up for summer

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May 2018 was good to Fortnite, again, SuperData's latest global revenue report shows, but its growth rate may be coming to a middle. "Fortnite...

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