overwatch

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

Overwatch’s new Paris map is live on the PTR

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The city of lights will soon be lit up in an entirely different sense as Overwatch players take to the streets of the new...

EA cuts sale of FIFA currency in Belgium in ongoing lootbox legal conflict

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Remember back in 2018 when Belgium cracked down on gambleboxes in video games, zeroing in on Overwatch, FIFA 18, and CSGO and ordering them...
Work that soul, yo

The MOP Up: SoulWorker introduces Chii Aruel

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There's a new character on the horizon for SoulWorker, and her name is Chii Aruel. The studio hasn't said much about her just yet, but...

Overwatch’s Lunar New Year event welcomes old maps, new skins, and plenty of nerfs as box price falls

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Overwatch has officially joined the roster of games splashing out for the Lunar New Year. "From now until Feb. 18, you can ring in the...
Heritage.

SuperData December 2018: World of Warcraft returns to the rankings, Fortnite takes the year

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Back in December, hearts skipped beats over the realization that not a single Blizzard game made it into SuperData's top global revenue rankings for...

The Daily Grind: Would you play Overwatch if it had a PvE or co-op mode?

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Overwatch had a strange 2018. While Blizzard expanded the game's developer team last year, it also put out less content (and more repeat content)...

Massively Overthinking: What would you want out of a World of Warcraft 2?

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Let's pretend for a moment that the reason Blizzard appears to be dropping the ball with World of Warcraft right now is that it's...

The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s Battle at the Binary Stars heats up

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Star Trek Online has a serious crush on Discovery right now -- and why not, since the show has propeled the franchise back into...

Blizzard and Netease will be cranking out games together at least until 2023

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Chinese gaming giant Netease has popped up in the news over and over this past year. It poured money into SpatialOS and is building...
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Overwatch releases a new short story and confirms that yes, Soldier 76 is gay

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Poor Ana, she got a bit short-sold on her own short story. Yes, Overwatch's healing sniper gets her own bit of short fiction, but...
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The MOP Up: Diablo III’s anniversary dungeon returns

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Anyone who missed out on Diablo III's anniversary dungeon can get back in on the fun and rewards thanks to its reprise all month...
Plays well with others.

Blizzard is investigating Overwatch team’s ‘social experiment’ hoax [Updated]

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The first female member of an Overwatch Contenders team is now also the first female player to leave an Overwatch Contenders team. Ellie had joined the...
Stop being a JERK.

Overwatch semi-pro finals will require chat participants to link their Battle.net accounts

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Gosh, it's really hard to get people to stop being screaming monsters on Twitch chat, huh? Blizzard has been dealing with this problem with...

The Daily Grind: Do you ever get pressured into playing a role you’d rather not in MMOs?

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A post that we did earlier this year pointed me to a rather funny and catchy song called "No Mercy" by The Living Tombstone....

Blizzard details new HOTS cadence, shames toxic Overwatch pros, and pays over 100 Irish staff to leave

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Despite the recent news from Blizzard that Heroes of the Storm's development cadence is being scaled back, with some of its developers being shifted...
Now my stats are good!

There are no Blizzard games in the November 2018 SuperData games revenue ranking, not even WoW

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I did a little double-take when I read SuperData's November 2018 games industry revenue ranking piece today, and not because the title and intro...

Overwatch’s Winter Wonderland is out, but Blizzard World is struggling

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Holiday Blizzard World is live in Overwatch! Oops, nevermind! Well, it was live earlier this week briefly as the Winter Wonderland rolled out to the...
Someone must have had fun with this at some point, right?

South Korea now has a law criminalizing the act of boosting in online games

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Let's say you really care about your competitive rank in a video game, but you don't have the time to actually practice and get...

Ask Mo: The hits and misses of Massively OP’s 2018 predictions

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As we do every year, today we're going to peek back at the horrifying outcomes of last year's MOP staff predictions for the genre and the games within it to determine how well we did. After all, what would be the fun of making predictions if we couldn't giggle over our guesses a year later? So did we nail it or fail it? And did you fare better? Let's find out.
Walkin' in a seasonal event.

Overwatch’s Winter Wonderland will return on December 11

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The true meaning of Christmas is something you can use for any number of jokes, but the true meaning of winter is hunting yetis...

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