Official Site:Â Overwatch
Studio:Â Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date:Â May 24, 2016
Genre: Team-Based OFPS
Business Model:Â B2P
Platform:Â PC, Xbox One, PS4
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Activision-Blizzard Q4 2022: Blizzard revenues, MAUs spike thanks to WoW Dragonflight and Overwatch 2
Welcome back to our inevitable coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials: Today's edition sums up Q4's results, comprising October, November, and December 2022. Let's break it...
Overwatch 2’s director maps out the future without map pools and less map frequency
Hey there, Overwatch 2 player! Do you like map pools? No, you don't; basically no one did, and so they're being removed according to...
Overwatch 2 brings back Overwatch Credits for its third season
In last night's letter to the Overwatch 2 community, Blizzard took some time to evaluate how Season 2 of the team shooter went and...
The Soapbox: Subscriptions might actually be the next big innovation in digital card games
What started earlier this week as a rant on how bad an idea a subscription model in Hearthstone would be evolved into something more:...
The MOP Up: Meet Starfall, a new indie Minecraft MMO
So many amazing projects have been birthed from Minecraft over the past decade-plus, including fully formed games. One of the newer of these is...
Overwatch 2 devs address issues with ranked play, reward acquisition, and balance frequency
In an attempt to get ahead of several controversial topics in the Overwatch 2 meta, Blizzard posted a developer update to briefly address a...
Massively Overthinking: What were your three most-played MMOs in 2022?
Last year, we did a piece on what we expected our top three MMOs of 2022 to be. We'll do that again next week,...
Overwatch 2 revives three arcade brawls for Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year in Overwatch is not a new concept, largely because Overwatch itself is not a new concept, but 2023 will mark the...
Blizzard claims NetEase rejected a license extension to keep Chinese games (including WoW) up another six months
When Blizzard and NetEase announced the dissolution of their long-running publishing partnership in China - and the sunset of almost all of Blizzard's games...
Overwatch 2’s new free-for-all deathmatch Battle for Olympus has begun
Overwatch 2's first big release of 2023 launched last night, sending the intersection of multiplayer gaming and classical studies fans into a frenzy. There...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2023
As 2022 drew to a close, we spent our Massively Overthinking roundtables discussing our predictions for 2023 as well as our goals. Now, we're...
Overwatch 2’s limited-time Battle for Olympus game mode brings a clash of the gods in FFA deathmatch
The characters of Overwatch 2 are already regular humans with some god-like power and strength, but the Battle for Olympus game mode arriving on...
End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2023
You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that were actually true, then my job to round...
Massively Overthinking: Our 2023 MMO resolutions
I know that not everyone does "resolutions," and that even most folks who make them don't actually stick with them. And when it comes...
The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2022
2022 marks the fifth year in a row we've done this roundup, but the Daily Grind has been a recurring mini-column here on MassivelyOP...
Overwatch 2 breaks down its MMR and matchmaking systems while hinting at planned updates
A competitive shooter like Overwatch 2 lives and dies by a few different grinding gears, such as those that power player MMR and matchmaking,...
Desert Oasis: Black Desert’s Jaehee Kim and Jesse Joo on accessibility, community, and playing their own game
Attending the first Calpheon Ball in the US was an awesome experience. Getting to see fellow Black Desert fans, watching the joy in peoples' faces...
Overwatch 2 fixes multiple heroes for Season 2
With the second season of Overwatch 2 in full swing and the competitive scene heating up, Blizzard isn't waiting for the next big patch...
Chris Metzen returns to the World of Warcraft team as a ‘creative advisor’
Who had this on the "biggest surprise" bingo card? Blizzard has apparently rehired Chris Metzen to work on World of Warcraft and its extended...
Overwatch 2 launches Winter Wonderland this week
It's time to mark the wintery season in both Hearthstone and Overwatch 2 as both games have lined up their seasonal events for the......
