Overwatch
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What do you think of the Overwatch Summer Games 2020 skins? What new skins would you have liked to see instead?
Overwatch’s Summer Games 2020 event officially kicked off yesterday, and with it, new skins — arguably the most exciting part of any in-game event. After a pre-launch preview of Pharah and Echo’s new skins,…
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Overwatch’s Summer Games 2020 event starts on August 4!
Overwatch’s Summer Games 2020 event is going to be here sooner than you think — it starts this week on August 4 and runs until the 25th. The annual event is a great way…
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In a recent Reddit AMA, the future of Overwatch looks grim
In a recent AMA on the Overwatch subreddit, the developers answered a bunch of questions that put the future of the game and Overwatch 2 in focus. While nothing major was confirmed, the most…
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How do you prefer the lore of a game relate to the player experience? How much of it should come from outside the game itself?
Games approach their storytelling in different ways for different reasons. For example, Overwatch has experimented with various ways to tell the story of the game — background details on maps like posters and locations significant…
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If you were going to adapt a Blizzard game to a tabletop RPG, which one would it be, and what system would you use?
I have been dying to do a tabletop RPG adaptation of Overwatch using the Mutants and Masterminds system for years now. I think it would be perfect. You’d make your own hero, using M&M‘s system to generate their…
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Overwatch Workshop addition lets you make heroes massive and/or tiny
What if Widowmaker, but big? What if Sombra, but tiny? In the latest Overwatch PTR update, you can turn any hero into a Godzilla-sized monster or an ant-sized critter with the new Workshop tools.…
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The Sigma’s Maestro Challenge event will have you throwing rocks to the rhythm with a new emote and skin to earn
Starting today and ending on July 27, Overwatch players can work to earn the Sigma Maestro skin and — for the first time ever — an exclusive emote. Sigma’s Maestro Challenge will require you…
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What sport would you add to Overwatch’s Summer Games event?
Overwatch usually brings back the Summer Games around this time. When it first premiered, the event did a lot to recall the real-world Olympic Games — since it was happening around the same time…
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Overwatch’s Competitive Open Queue will probably make you play GOATS
Overwatch’s Competitive Open Queue mode has brought back the most divisive parts about the game’s past. Not only is there no role lock to keep your team from going all Damage heroes while you…
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Overwatch gets a map editor in this Workshop mode
While Blizzard is quietly working on changes to the Overwatch Paris and Horizon Lunar Colony maps, the Workshop community has put together a rudimentary map editor so everyone can do it themselves. Although the…
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