Category: Overwatch News

Jeff Kaplan stars in the latest Developer Update that goes into a bit more detail about the upcoming competitive mode.

Overwatch feels like a sort of natural evolution of the Team Fortress formula. Blizzard’s taken the basic idea of Team Fortress 2 and managed to modernize it with gameplay elements from the MOBA genre. It’s a hard locked six vs. six affair and there ar…

Chinese game developers have no shame when it comes to cloning hit games in other regions. The latest is League of Titans, a fervent effort (if poorly executed) to copy Overwatch for mobile devices. They say a picture speaks a thousand words so we’ll j…

Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan has posted on the game’s forum about some of the future plans for Blizzard’s 10M player juggernaut. Kaplan writes that getting competitive play has been the primary focus as the team has been working to implement som…

Just a couple weeks past release and Blizzard’s Overwatch juggernaut continues to grow, expanding half again from its 7M players on launch day. As of today, Overwatch has scored 10M active players. That’s pretty impressive by any measure.

A fan-made video is creating a stir in the Overwatch community. Styled after typical anime opening sequences, it takes footage from the Overwatch short films, teaser videos and more. It’s fantastically done and worth watching. Check it out!

If there’s one thing that is an immutable fact, it’s that players will find diverse and innovative ways to play games. In one of the more entertaining Overwatch player videos, Team Genji takes on Team Genji in an epic badminton match with Junk Rat as t…

When asked whether or not there would be cross platform play, @PlayOverwatch, the official Overwatch Twitter account, responded by saying that there were none at this time, though the development team would be keeping an eye on console cross platform p…

Just over a week after release, Activision-Blizzard has announced that Overwatch has over seven million players taking part in FPS action around the world. In that single week, players have logged over one hundred nineteen million hours of gameplay act…

Blizzard had to take to Twitter to staunch the Overwatch flames that erupted after a tweet went out indicating that competitive play would be coming out “before the end of next month (July)”. Late yesterday afternoon, @PlayOverwatch corrected the error…