Overwatch: news and videos

Torbjörn can have a huge impact in Overwatch when the stars align and he has room to set up properly, but he's often an all-or-nothing hero. Blizzard is looking to change that with a rework coming soon to the PTR. The developers want h...

I've never sprung for a BlizzCon Virtual Ticket and I'm not about to start just for a video game cosmetic, but gosh dang do I want this exclusive new Diablo-inspired skin for Overwatch's Sombra. The Demon Hunter outfit is one of the in-ga...

For me, there's just no beating New Map Day in Overwatch. New heroes are nice and all, but it rapidly becomes a race to pick the fresh face first in Quick Play or an all-out mess of duplicate characters in Arcade (which admittedly has its o...

At the risk of jinxing us all, I think unlocking the new D.Va skin should be relatively quick and painless. Blizzard is currently rewarding Overwatch players with two sprays, an icon, and the shiny new Nano Cola skin. All you have to do is ...

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that real-money loot boxes have been removed from the Belgian territories in both online shooter Overwatch and MOBA Heroes of the Storm, effective immediately.The decision is made in compliance with the ...

Overwatch's professional competitive games are done for the season, but this weekend the Overwatch League (OWL) is hosting its first All-Star weekend, featuring teams made up from some of the best players in the world. The matches begin in ...

Nicely overlapping with the Summer Games event, Overwatch has gone free to play this weekend. Unlike the last promo, PC and consoles players can participate. There's fresh meat for everyone. It's a chance to bat folks around as the hamster ...

It's been a pretty big week for Overwatch's mech-ridin' babe, Hana Song, more commonly known by her call-sign, D.Va. First she gets her own cool animated short, then a new map set in her home city of Busan, South Korea. Now, courtesy of Goo...

At Gamescom this week, Blizzard unveiled the next character coming to the premium line of Overwatch statues; the terrifying name whose mere utterance can bring about fear, chaos and untold destruction, Akande Ogundimu, infamously known to h...

Along with today's D.Va animated short, Blizzard has also dropped a new map that's playable now on the PTR. I'm at the point where additional maps are more noteworthy than any other type of reveal for this game, and I especially dig that th...

It's been a very long time since we got the last in Blizzard's fantastic series of animated shorts, exploring the characters of their online shooter, Overwatch. But we finally have a new mini-movie, focused on South Korean video game master...

I've yet to buy any Overwatch merch, but this might be the tie-in to break me. Blizzard has begun teasing its previously-announced LEGO collaboration with a tweet depicting Overwatch minifigs. Based on those silhouettes, Blizzard seems to ...

Blizzard has created a pair of funky-looking Overwatch skins for Tracer and Genji in celebration of this month's Overwatch League All-Star Weekend. Tracer represents the Atlantic division, while Genji is repping the Pacific team. The All-St...

The Overwatch Summer Games have returned with the love-it-or-hate-it Lúcioball, a new arena for the specialized mode called Busan Stadium, and a couple of highly coveted skins for D.Va and Ana. The event is now live and it'll run unt...

Overwatch's Summer Games event returns this week, and Blizzard is currently passing the time until August 9 with previews of new legendary skins for characters like Roadhog, Ana, D.Va, and Winston. Today's the day I learned that I need Wins...

The official Overwatch Twitter account has put out the heads up that the Summer Games event will be returning to Blizzard's arena-shooter next week.Although no specific details were noted, we can, in all likelihood, expect all of the previo...

This past weekend the London Spitfire took it all in the Overwatch League's first championship event. Now two more teams are getting a shot at the crown next year. Blizzard has just announced that Atlanta, Georgia will be entering the fray ...

It's that time again. Blizzard is throwing a free weekend for Overwatch on PC that runs from today until 11:59pm Pacific on July 30 in supported regions: the Americas, Europe, and Asia (minus Korea). With changes to characters like Symmetra...

Blizzard's hamster-in-a-mech Overwatch hero Wrecking Ball has joined the live game. This new mobile tank hero can roll around, piledrive, lay mines, and use a grappling claw to swing himself up high to, say, focus down a pesky Widowmaker. I...

Blizzard's popular online shooter Overwatch is no stranger to merchandising, and its catalogue of goodies is about to grow even bigger with the announcement that the brand is teaming up with Hasbro for a range of NERF guns based on its lova...

For those of you who may not have had the chance to sink your teeth into Blizzard's mega-popular arena-shooter, Overwatch, then next week will provide you with the opportunity to see what all the noise is about.Next "weekend", from July 26-...

When Overwatch was first released even with an extensive beta testing period it felt like the wild west. Every hero had a power fantasy, that fantasy was in overdrive, and as a result each character felt wildly unique. Then Blizzard na...

Well that didn't take too long at all! After a round of testing on the PTR, Overwatch's Hammond (aka the hero none of us want to call by his Blizzard-given name "Wrecking Ball") is ready for the live game. The mischievous little guy will ro...

We took a stab at creating alternate skins for Overwatch's littlest hero, Hammond, and things got weird. Now Blizzard has shown us what's up. The developer added cosmetics for Wrecking Ball on the PTR today including skins, emotes, and high...

Blizzard announced, today, that it has signed a multi-year deal with ESPN and Disney to broadcast the Overwatch League (OWL) on the network's various different channels. This will see regular season play and major tournaments appearing on t...

In May, Blizzard teamed up with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) to sell a pink Mercy skin in Overwatch as a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness. Going for $14.99, Blizzard pledged to donate all proceeds to charity in an effo...

The newest Overwatch hero is sure to be a fan favorite. Already popular on the PTR, Wrecking Ball is the adorably deadly hamster with an origin story for the ages. After escaping Richard Gere's colon, Hammond the hamster was taken to t...

The muddy-funsters of Good Smile Co. have unveiled the next cutesy Nendoroid toy in their rapidly-expanding Overwatch range. This time around it's non-other than the deviant from Down Under, Junkrat!I've always been amused by Junkrat in reg...

Some of my favorite Overwatch plays usually involve Tracer, many of which have come from Nenne of XL2 Academy (the academy team of New York Excelsior). There's at least one of those in this "top 10" video roundup from the Overwatch Lea...

Blizzard have just uploaded two videos revealing a plethora of new details on the latest addition to the Overwatch roster. Not only that, but the crazed critter is already live and available to play on the Overwatch PTR server!Our new hamst...

A new tweet, just dropped on Blizzard's official Overwatch Twitter, appears to show a spherical, gun-toting mech rolling into an alleyway, where it opens fire with reckless abandon before revealing its... hamster pilot?The GIF appears to be...

The big Overwatch update that revamps Symmetra and Horizon Lunar Colony has made it through public testing and it's now ready for the live game on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Brace for impact. Along with sweeping hero changes for Symme...

[Update: Blizzard has posted another teaser clip and I don't know what to expect anymore.] Leave it to Blizzard to rile up Overwatch fans with a simple video clip of a wall. We've long heard murmurs about Hammond, a test subject from Horiz...

This would have been a good weekly Destructoid Discusses topic three weeks ago. Three weeks ago, we were in the throes of the Overwatch second anniversary celebration. Three weeks ago, I was sitting squarely at level 10. Today, I'm lev...

As the celebrations for the second anniversary of the super-successful arena-shooter come to a close, Blizzard have announced that Overwatch will see a rare Double XP event this weekend.From June 8 until June 11, all XP earned in all modes ...

In case you haven't heard, Overwatch's Symmetra is getting a complete rework. Her primary attack is no longer a point and click homing beam, her turrets are a little easier to use as they can be thrown, and her ultimates are drasticall...

Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan has outlined a number of notable changes making their way to the game today for public testing on the PTR. More than just the usual hero tweaks, Blizzard has also introduced a looking for group (LFG) syst...

Blizzard have announced that the Grand Finals for the Overwatch League 2018 has sold out, thus will see every seat in the New York Barclay's Arena occupied by a bum. (A literal bum).The tickets went on sale May 18 and closed last week, havi...

Fine toy purveyors Good Smile Co. gave me another reason to decry my life as a penniless scribe this week, by announcing that Overwatch's sexy-sneaky hacker, Sombra, is coming to a tabletop near you in Nendoroid form.Sombra, real name Olivi...

Overwatch is currently thriving on three platforms, but 'can we make it four' is the question on everyone's mind. Blizzard has constantly referenced the Switch when asked, to the point where they're kind of tired of it, and slowly but surel...

[Image courtesy of YouTuber Nick Brick] A report from Business Wire has let out details of a deal between Activision Blizzard and LEGO and a second deal with HASBRO. While not specified, the deal indicates that a line of Overwatch LEGO prod...

Today, Blizzard begins its second-year anniversary celebrations for its immensely popular arena-shooter Overwatch. A new selection of unlockables will be made available for the duration of the event, although one fan got the party star...

Overwatch is getting another new deathmatch map, good news for those of you that dig that particular mode. It's called Petra, and it was shown off during last night's Overwatch League festivities. The thing is we won't have to wait long for...

The second anniversary of Blizzard's online shooter Overwatch is just on the horizon, as part of the celebrations, the developer/publisher has released a wonderful new video, Trace & Bake, using stop-motion animations of some of the gam...

As of next week, Overwatch will have been out for two years. As I've said several times it feels like it just came out, and it's hard to believe that the PC edition has been updated with tons of free content for $40 at launch -- loot box sh...

Stage 4 of the Overwatch League begins next week on May 16. It's kind of a monumental moment as it's the last five weeks before the first ever OWL playoffs, followed by the Grand Finals in New York. Right now it's looking really good for th...

Even if you don't play Overwatch you've probably seen at least 100 "Play of the Game" clips. They're everywhere, and you basically couldn't escape them at launch as everyone and their grandmother uploaded that one time they earned it. ...

Blizzard have announced that, from today, players can pick up a beautiful new skin for Overwatch's iconic healer Mercy, with all of the proceeds being donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). The skin is available until May ...

Overwatch's Rialto has been out for less than a week and people are already breaking it. As gathered online from various players, the below gifs showcase the ability to get play of the game (read: the final photo finish-esque clip that show...

Blizzard just added a new map into Overwatch -- and it's live for all platforms. It's called Rialto, and is based on Venice, Italy, featuring its waterways and architecture. Rialto is currently not playable in competitive -- just regular mo...