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 Q1 2017: Blizzard’s online games drove Activision-Blizzard profits last quarter
Activision-Blizzard can't claim "biggest quarter ever" for the quarter ending March 2017, but it continues to rake in huge sums of money, enough to at...
Fan-made Overwatch short explores Mercy’s backstory
If you've played a single Overwatch game with Mercy as your support hero, you've heard her rallying shout at least once - "Heroes never...
Overwatch players get one extra day of Uprising
While Overwatch's most recent event, Uprising, was scheduled to conclude yesterday, it got a brief, second lease on life with a one-day extension. So...
Superdata report shows Overwatch slipping, Hearthstone rebounding
Looking back at March's digital sales, the industry was up 15% year-over-year from 2016, Superdata Research reports. Mobile was the largest area of growth,...
Overwatch hits 30M players, makes Chinese free-to-play test plans
Blizzard has just announced that Overwatch has just counted 30 million players. That's buyers, mind you, as the game is buy-to-play.
However, a limited free-to-play Overwatch is...
Heroes of the Storm overhauls game, adds Overwatch’s Genji, and gives away 20 free heroes
It is an absolutely massive week for Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm, so let's dig into all of the news. Yesterday, the game launched...
Overwatch pro player sees career ended over racist diatribe
It's probably not the best idea to start shouting racial abuse in the middle of a live stream if you're public figure with a...
A new job listing for Blizzard suggests another mobile title is in the works
Is there a Blizzard franchise you want to carry around in your pocket? Obviously, you can already play Hearthstone on your phone, but perhaps...
Overwatch adjusts competitive win conditions for Assault maps
When both teams lose, who wins? That might sound like an oxymoron, but the latest Overwatch adjustment to competitive play is aimed at exactly...
Massively Overthinking: Disassembling MMORPGs for parts
This week's Massively Overthinking comes to us from Xijit -- and I think you'll agree it's quite timely.
"In light of The Secret World getting reworked into...
Overwatch’s Genji and Hanamura map leap into Heroes of the Storm
A fourth Overwatch toon is coming to Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard revealed today: The assassin Genji will join Lucio, Tracer, and Zarya in...
The MOP Up: Overwatch gives smurfing a pass (April 16, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
SuperData CEO discusses the money problem of e-sports
Whether you're a big fan of the e-sports scene or you would be quite happy never hearing about it ever again, you are no...
Overwatch Uprising event is live today
So it's not called Insurrection. It's called Uprising. English has a lot of words that mean the same thing, so we'll forgive the leakers. Yep,...
Rumor: Overwatch leak reveals Insurrection PvE event launching tomorrow
Who had "PvE event" in the Overwatch teaser rumor pool? Oh, everyone? OK then, you all win, because that is indeed what appears to...
Overwatch releases a comic about the past; next hero is far along in development
The backstory of Overwatch could probably be a game in and of itself, considering that the game takes place after the eponymous organization formed,...
Blizzard awarded $8.5M in Bossland WoW and Overwatch bot lawsuit
German bot company Bossland has lost another battle in its war with Blizzard, though that's to be expected since it didn't even show up...
Blizzard has opened an e-sports stadium in Taiwan
Blizzard already has an unlicensed amusement park -- so why not a licensed stadium?
That's indeed exactly what the company has built in Taiwan. The...
Overwatch teases new content hinging on the King’s Row Uprising
Blizzard has begin teasing its next... something... for Overwatch both on social media and in cryptic messages to press.
Reddit's current theories include everything from...
SuperData examines gambling practices across the online gaming industry
Gambling in video games has been a huge topic for devoted MMORPG players over the last year or so, as core MMOs like Guild...
