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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Someone is already level 100 in Overwatch
Overwatch player FenderOverwatch has successfully reached the level 100 cap on Tuesday, just a week since its formal launch. You can all give up now.
The...
Blizzard pushes Overwatch’s redesigned competitive mode to June
Update: Blizzard has corrected its tweets; the patch is June, not July.
A series of tweets from Blizzard just before the holiday weekend have confirmed...
Launch impressions: Overwatch is good, but it’s only half a game
The thing that bugs me about Overwatch is that it feels like half of a game. Unfortunately, it's also the less interesting half, the...
Blizzard cracks down on Overwatch porn
Surprising exactly no one familiar with Overwatch's art style, people are already making porn of it. Rule #34, guys. PCGamesN ran the numbers and...
Betawatch: Crowfall adjusts its testing patterns (May 27, 2016)
The testing pattern for Crowfall is going to be just a little bit different moving forward, with an emphasis on having fewer phases over...
Perfect Ten: Apologies I must make to my fellow Overwatch players
Fellow players of Overwatch, I am sorry. I don't know your names because I tried very hard to forget them, but I am still...
Analyst argues game devs are abandoning free-to-play in some genres
Red Fox Insights analyst Jake Parmley has another piece on Gamasutra this week, this one arguing that video game developers are "backing away from...
Get a quick rundown of the lore relationships in Overwatch
With 21 characters, 12 maps, and 0 actual in-game story, it can occasionally be difficult to place what's happening in Overwatch within the context...
Global Chat: Snap judgments of Overwatch
The talk of the blogger town has definitely been abuzz with impressions, thoughts, and snap judgments of Overwatch as it heads to release. Is...
Overwatch shares plans for bringing back competitive play
Every match in Overwatch is, by its very nature, a competition. You have two teams struggling to complete an objective; it's not going to...
The Daily Grind: So are you playing Overwatch?
Sure it's not Project Titan, but Overwatch is the next big thing, and it's well and truly sucked the air out of the room....
Overwatch’s launch day has arrived; here’s our giant roundup
Blizzard's Overwatch, the shooty remains of what was once destined to be MMORPG Project Titan, formally launches tonight at midnight -- if you're in...
Beta testers actually used Overwatch’s commendation system for good
Still feeling bereft of Overwatch in this period between the beta and the launch? Can't help you there, but Blizzard has expounded on its...
The story of Overwatch’s Hanzo and Genji plays out in ‘Dragons’ short
The archer-assassin Hanzo stars in the latest Overwatch animated short, which tells the tale of two brothers locked in eternal struggle.
"Dragons explores the history...
The MOP Up: Blizzard’s mobile prospects (May 15, 2016)
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...
Betawatch: Perfect World signs on to publish Gigantic (May 13, 2016)
Things had looked bleak for Gigantic. Setting the game up as being only on Windows 10 and Xbox One hadn't exactly bolstered its playerbase,...
First impressions: Overwatch offers nothing new (yet), but I’m buying it anyway
I'm going to be blunt: I don't feel like a Blizzard fan. I know that may sound odd from the guy who plays Hearthstone more than any other writer on...
Almost 10 million people logged into Overwatch’s beta
Overwatch has swallowed my guild. Ever since the Overwatch IV drop was shut off at the end of open beta earlier this week, my...
Global Chat: Which MMOs have the best quests?
For some players, quests are either those things that serve to annoy with reading (in a game!) or merely provide gussied-up reward packages. But...
Surprise: Overwatch gives an extra day of open beta to all
Has your Twitter feed been inundated with talk about Overwatch this past weekend? You can thank Blizzard for making the game's beta open to...