Blizzard has taken a stern stance against cheaters in Overwatch since the very beginning, a move that has often been praised by the community. There have been several large ban waves in the past but this weeks was one of the biggest, taking down 22,865 cheaters playing on the game's …
Read More »Blizzard kicks off Year of the Rooster Overwatch event
If you have been looking for a reason to jump back into Overwatch then this week might just be the time to do it as Blizzard has kicked off the ‘Year of the Rooster' event this week, running from the 24th of January up until the 13th of February. This …
Read More »Terry Crews continues to tease voicing Doomfist in Overwatch
Update: It looks like previous reports could be on the right track as Terry Crews is continuing to tease the idea of him playing a brand new Overwatch character. Just a few weeks ago we learned that the actor had visited Blizzard's studios after expressing interest in voice acting Doomfist, …
Read More »Terry Crews could end up being an Overwatch hero
Terry Crews has been getting more involved in the gaming world this year after embarking on a mission to build his first PC. Since then he has dabbled in Twitch streaming, virtual reality and now, it looks like he might appear in Overwatch as a character, as the actor recently …
Read More »Blizzard is working on a new first person project
Blizzard might have a lot of popular games available to play right now, but only one of them is in the first person perspective: Overwatch. However that may not be the case forever, as it's now created two new job listings for software engineers for an unannounced project built using …
Read More »Overwatch Sombra design leaked, could arrive in October update
Blizzard has been teasing a new Overwatch character, currently known as ‘Sombra', for months now. In fact, teases for Sombra began popping up well before we even saw Ana, the game's medic sniper and first new character addition. However, it looks like it is almost time for the full reveal …
Read More »Hooked on a feeling: Hi-Rez says Paladins isn’t an Overwatch clone
Smite developer Hi-Rez has felt the need to defend itself in the wake of a multitude of comparisons between its recent Early Access release, Paladins and Blizzard's Overwatch. It points out the character archetypes that people see in both games have existed way longer than either games. On the surface, …
Read More »Overwatch high-bandwidth update brings netcode improvements
If you have been hoping for higher tick rate servers in Overwatch, then you will be pleased to hear that the game's next PC patch is all about introducing the new high-bandwidth update, which will improve the game's netcode and introduce higher tick rates to players with the connections to …
Read More »Overwatch’s second competitive season has kicked off
The second season of Overwatch's competitive mode has kicked off a little earlier than expected on the PC. Initially, the second season was due to start on the 6th of September but it looks like Blizzard managed to get ahead of schedule, so it got a surprise launch today instead. …
Read More »Here are the changes coming to Overwatch’s Competitive Mode
Overwatch's first competitive season is coming to an end this week, giving Blizzard a chance to implement some changes in time for season 2, which will begin in September. Today, Overwatch Game Director, Jeff Kaplan, put out a video going over the changes competitive mode will be getting for season …
Read More »Overwatch to ‘take action’ against Lucio Ball bug exploiters
Recently Blizzard added a new game mode to Overwatch called ‘Lucio Ball', which appears to have been inspired by Rocket League, except instead of driving cars, you are running around as Lucio. Since then, players discovered a bug that could allow them to play as other characters in this game …
Read More »Overwatch first competitive season ends in ten days
Blizzard's approach to competitive play in Overwatch is a little different to other games. The competitive mode runs in seasons, during which players compete to reach the top 500 player list, if you break into the list at any time during the season, you get a unique player icon and …
Read More »Overwatch has 15 million players worldwide
We already knew that Overwatch was off to a great start but it looks like Blizzard's latest franchise has really caught on, with over 15 million players worldwide already. The game officially launched on the 24th of May this year, so over the last two months, the player base has …
Read More »Triggerbot users aren’t pleased about their Overwatch bans
Blizzard has had a strict zero-tolerance policy for Overwatch cheaters since day one. However, there are always going to be some that try to cheat anyway and this week, Blizzard had a major ban wave for Overwatch players using Triggerbot and it seems quite a few of those affected don’t …
Read More »Latest Overwatch patch brings changes to Ana and McCree
Blizzard is continuing to take in player feedback and address Overwatch's hero balance. This time around, there is a patch coming to address the game's newest hero, Ana, but there will also be some additional changes to McCree, who had already been tweaked in a previous patch a few weeks …
Read More »Overwatch gets new hero, Bliz to add one-hero limit to competitive
Blizzard announced some significant Overwatch news last night. Firstly, the studio announced Overwatch's newest hero ‘Ana', a new support character who uses a biotic rifle to restore health from a distance. Secondly, Blizzard also announced that it will no longer allow hero stacking in competitive play, meaning each team will be …
Read More »Blizzard is making changes to Overwatch skill ranking
Last month, Blizzard officially launched its competitive mode for Overwatch and players swiftly began taking part in the first season of play. However, there have been some issues, some of which stemmed from how the new skill ranking system works, which Blizzard is now trying to resolve. At first, if …
Read More »A new Overwatch Hero is coming this month
If you have been playing Overwatch non-stop since its launch at the end of May, then you may be wondering when new content is coming. Last week we finally got the game's competitive mode and now it looks like even more content is on the way, this time in the …
Read More »Blizzard is suing the creator of an Overwatch cheating program
Blizzard has already taken an impressive stance against cheaters in Overwatch but now the studio is also going after the cheat creators. Blizzard is suing Bossland, a German cheat maker on the grounds of copyright infringement, unfair competition and a violation of the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause. The Overwatch cheat in question …
Read More »Overwatch’s Competitive Mode is now live
While Overwatch did initially have a competitive mode in its closed beta, Blizzard chose to take it out of the launch version of the game in order to rework it. Now, we can finally see the changes for ourselves as the Overwatch competitive mode has launched on the PC today, …
Read More »Torbjorn is getting nerfed in Overwatch but not on PC
Blizzard has been paying close attention to feedback on Overwatch since its launch in order to prepare any balancing changes. However, given the different play styles between PC and console, sometimes changes need to be made on a platform by platform basis, which is why in July, Torbjorn will be …
Read More »Could Overwatch be the next big competitor for League of Legends?
League of Legends has been the world's most popular PC game for a number of years now; in 2014 it was reported that there were over 67 million active players. But perhaps Overwatch could one day eclipse that. Although a new competitor on the scene, Overwatch is currently the second …
Read More »This week’s Overwatch patch balances Widowmaker and McCree
Millions of people have already picked up Overwatch since its launch last month and now after some careful observation, Blizzard has decided to make some balance changes to two heroes in particular in this week's patch. Going forward, McCree and Widowmaker will be a little less effective in certain situations. …
Read More »Frequent Overwatch rage quitters will now suffer an XP penalty
When it comes to team-based games like Overwatch, there will always be times where your match-made squad of strangers doesn't quite ‘gel'. However, even if your team is outclassed, Blizzard doesn't want players to just ditch matches the second things go bad, which is why a penalty has now been introduced …
Read More »Someone figured out the drop rates for Overwatch loot
If you have been wondering how lucky you need to be to grab a legendary skin from a loot box in Overwatch then now you can see the drop rate percentages as someone went through the trouble of working it all out. Reddit user, Ourobouros went through several videos that …
Read More »Overwatch already has over seven million players
It seems that quite a few of the 9.6 million people that tried out the Overwatch open beta have gone on to buy the game in its first week as right now, over seven million people are playing Blizzard's new shooter. “Over the months and weeks leading up to release …
Read More »Overwatch competitive mode update pushed back a bit
Update: It looks like Blizzard has had to push back its estimate for Overwatch's Competitive Mode content update. Around the time of Overwatch's release, the game's director, Jeff Kaplan speculated that the update would be ready for the last week or so of June. However, he did not give a …
Read More »Overwatch dev explains how the Play of the Game system works
As great as Overwatch is, the ‘Play of the Game' system can often seem a bit hit or miss and now we know why, as one of the game's developers has explained how this particular system actually works. The idea behind Play of the Game is to capture moments that …
Read More »Overwatch competitive matchmaking to arrive next month
Blizzard officially launched Overwatch last night, the studio's first new IP in over a decade but there is still a planned feature missing from the game that was present in the closed beta- Competitive matchmaking. Blizzard already announced earlier this month that the feature would not be ready in time …
Read More »AMD and Nvidia update drivers for big game releases this week
This is actually a fairly big week for gaming, not only do we have Overwatch coming out but Total War: Warhammer is also launching, alongside a Vulkan API update for Dota 2. Given that two large titles are coming out this week, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise …
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