Category: Overwatch News

Blizzard has posted a fun infographic about the recent Overwatch Uprising event. It reveals that the Null Sector Omnics won 78M brawls to only 67M by the Overwatch heroes. Game difficulty played a big role in these stats. The harder the game, the less …

It’s no secret that South Korea is a hotbed of gaming culture, particularly wrapped around Blizzard titles. South Korean presidential candidate, Sim Sang-Jung, has released a new political ad with an Overwatch theme. The ad shows her shutting down poli…

With the first anniversary of Overwatch coming soon (May 24th), a new build of the game went up on the PTR. Players have been busy datamining what they’ve discovered in the client. The current speculation is that an anniversary event will be incoming (…

Blizzard has proudly announced that Overwatch has scored 30 million players in its first year. The announcement was made via the Overwatch Twitter account with an appropriately juggernaut-ish looking Reinhardt and with gratitude to its community.

Blizzard has altered a somewhat controversial Overwatch competitive mechanic implemented last week in the v1.10 update. Designed to reduce the number of ties in competitive game play, the update required one team to “fully capture one more objective th…

Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan has weighed in on a lengthy thread about “smurfing”, the name for when an experienced ranked player buys a second account and plays in low-tier competitive matches. According to Kaplan, smurfing isn’t a big issue wit…

Blizzard has officially revealed the Overwatch: Uprising event that kicks off today and runs through May 1st. Players “celebrate the Overwatch Legacy” by taking part in Tracer’s first mission to London with the action taking place on a modified version…

If you speak French — and even if you don’t — the Overwatch video leaked today gives us plenty of new information about the Insurrection event that will be (we think) starting tomorrow. It will take place in the early days of the Overwatch organizati…

Earlier this week, Overwatch NZ/AU posted a cryptic video about the Overwatch King’s Row Uprising. In the day since, we have learned that this is likely tied to a new in-game event that is centered on the Overwatch lore rather than on an outside holida…

Blizzard’s Australia / New Zealand Twitter account has a teaser video on it that seems to be teasing some type of revelation headed out on April 12th. Called “Overwatch Mission Archives”, it shows off recorded data from several years ago of the King’s …