Overwatch: news and videos

As a formerly obsessed Overwatch player, it's surprising to see the game get a new map today. If you haven't been following along, the new location, Kanezaka, is a deathmatch map "nestled beside Hanamura." The city locale even has a cat caf...

I've always had this strange association between Overwatch and Christmas, which likely stems from spending three festive seasons in a row utterly embedded within Blizzard's colorful multiplayer shooter. And now you too can make said associa...

Is there a German word to describe a person who has stopped playing a live-service game but still keeps tabs on the outfits for no particular reason? That's where I'm at with Overwatch. I can't let go. Today's Winter Wonderland 2020 event i...

Still play Overwatch? I do! It's still a great way for me to unwind (ha, for many it's the opposite) on both PC and Switch; trying to steal away a few games here and there in bed in portable mode on the latter platform. For all of you who a...

[Update: Halloween Terror 2020 is live in Overwatch with eight new skins, three of which (Fantasma Sombra, Stone Brigitte, and Ragdoll Echo) can be unlocked with Weekly Challenges – you just need score nine wins each week). Check out ...

If you've had your fill of Super Mario Bros. 35,  heads up: Nintendo is rolling out another one of its infrequent Nintendo Switch Online membership perks. For a limited time, Overwatch will be free to play. To partake, just grab Overwa...

Still holding out on checking out the most popular hero shooter in the world? Sometimes the late bird gets the worm. Overwatch League team Boston Uprising is giving away copies of Overwatch on PC. All you have to do is fill out this fo...

We made it to another Overwatch Summer Games event! If you're over Lucioball – there's several refinements for 2020 and a faster Remix mode with two balls on the field – then there's always skins. The Internet has fallen head o...

Sigma's Maestro skin makes him look like Overwatch's grumpy, fussy, tenured-as-hell professor, and folks, I'm into it. The outfit was created to drum up interest for the Overwatch: Cities & Countries album. This is another limited-time...

Blizzard is getting ready to launch a new Overwatch music collection with "Cities and Countries" album, and who better to usher in that initiative than Sigma: the musically inclined hero. Billed as a soundtrack "featuring the themes fr...

Even when I'm not actively playing Overwatch, I still like to follow the latest skins. With the game's fourth-anniversary event starting tomorrow, May 19, it's time to scope out our potential new looks. Blizzard has been revealing them one...

Blizzard rolled out a few big things for Overwatch this week including Echo, who just joined the live-game hero roster today, and changes to Competitive Play, like the removal of Map Pools. Echo is one of the more exciting heroes in recent ...

The Overwatch PTR was updated today with Echo, the 32nd playable hero. The sleek new robot is playable on PC and sits in the Damage pool alongside Genji, Junkrat, and other old favorites. Echo's moveset includes a Tri-Shot projectile, a vol...

Following on from several teases posted earlier this week, Blizzard has officially revealed Echo as the 32nd hero headed to its online multiplayer shooter Overwatch.From the dramatic origin video, which you can check below, we can ascertain...

New tweets over on the official Overwatch Twitter account appear to be teasing the arrival of a new hero, the 32nd as such in the Blizzard shooter's huge roster of colourful characters.The initial tweet contains information from the persona...

Blizzard is trying to liven up Overwatch's Archives event for 2020. The in-game event runs from March 12 to April 2, and this year, there are weekly challenge missions to modify (and hopefully freshen up) three dust-covered co-op story leve...

As of this week, the Overwatch team is losing a key member of its development squad. Michael Chu, lead writer for the series (and contributor to multiple Blizzard franchises), is leaving Blizzard after 20 years. In a heartfelt per...

The latest in-game challenge for Overwatch, Ashe's Mardi Gras Challenge, is live until March 9, 2020. Similar to prior "remember me!" mini-events in Overwatch, you'll earn cosmetic rewards for winning matches in the Quick Play, Competitive,...

Overwatch is getting out of its comfort zone in "early" February 2020 with patch 1.45. Not only is Blizzard trying out weekly hero pools and ban lists for Competitive season 21, the developer is also bringing a PTR-esque Experimental Card t...

Overwatch is ringing in the Year of the Rat with its Lunar New Year 2020 celebration. The event just went live across PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, and it's running until February 6. In terms of character skins, there a...

If you can get to a PC (or console) between now and the start of the new year, you can clean up on some last-minute Overwatch extras. Basically, just sign into your account from now through January 2, and you'll net five more Winter-th...

It's been quiet as of late, but Overwatch is bringing back its Winter Wonderland event in time for the holidays. This year, the seasonal update will be playable from December 10, 2019 to January 2, 2020. Across all of these events, Blizzard...

[Editor's Note: What a decade this has been. It's too soon to say how it will compare to those before it, but the past 10 years have been phenomenal for the video game industry. We've seen the meteoric rise of the indie devel...

It's been a while since we had a bit more written lore from the universe of multiplayer shooter Overwatch, but Blizzard are looking to fix that with a new novelette, Valkyrie, which is available to read online right now.The short story sees...

For the past two years or so of my life, Overwatch has been at the forefront of my gaming habit. The team-based hero shooter struck gold when it released in 2016 and has grown to become one of the most well-known brands in the world, o...

Coinciding with Overwatch's Nintendo Switch release today, Blizzard has begun the Halloween Terror 2019 event on PC and consoles. If you're in it purely for the skins, there are eight new looks, two of which – Inferno Junkrat and Vamp...

Having attended panels featuring Overwatch developers and cast members, I can attest to the insatiable fan desire for more lore. Although Blizzard has given us numerous short films at this point for Overwatch amid tiny story sprin...

A lot of people were holding out on last-minute news that the upcoming Overwatch Switch port (October 15) would have more unique features beyond motion/IR, and it looks like as of this week it's a definitive "no" from Blizzard. While c...

I'm so stoked to try Overwatch on Switch. I mean it's going to take some getting used to, coming from the performance enhancements and mouse and keyboard controls on PC, but the idea of playing Overwatch with my wife while on the ...

Welp, I guess it's time for me to get my copy of Overwatch up to date and head back in, if only for an evening. Blizzard has reimagined Bastion as a colorful Lego creation, and folks, I can't miss out. The new legendary-tier "Brick" skin is...

While Blizzard tries to see if cross-play "makes sense" for Overwatch, they're going full speed ahead with the Switch port on October 15. Thanks to Blizzard communications manager Nazih Fares, we now have a few more details on what tha...

So Overwatch was officially confirmed for Switch yesterday! That's all good and well, but what about cross-play? Blizzard has another vague answer for us (as vague as they were about it existing on Switch for the past few years). Speak...

[Update: And there it is. Overwatch kicked off today's Nintendo Direct presentation ahead of the game's October 15, 2019 launch on Nintendo Switch for $40.] Heroes never die! Unless they were never born [on Switch]. Although Overwatch ...

Blizzard has opened pre-orders on the latest statue in its slowly-growing Overwatch range. Following on from previous centrepieces featuring Reaper, Doomfist, Mercy and D.Va, among others, this latest release features the most infuriating c...

Overwatch has seen a lot of changes in the three years it’s dominated the hero-shooter genre. New heroes have been introduced, the rules of the game have been adjusted, and characters have had their weapons and classes altered in Bliz...

Today feels like a particularly fateful day for Overwatch. Along with the new gravity-manipulating hero Sigma, Blizzard has pushed out Role Queue – a system in which players will lock down their role as either tank, support, or damage...

After a few teases, Blizzard has officially introduced Sigma, the next tank hero lined up for Overwatch. Even if you aren't in the habit of watching these origin story videos, this one is worth a look. It's genuinely unnerving! Blizzard de...

The defining trait of hero shooters is that everyone plays a unique role within the team. When people can't play the role they prefer (or when someone abrasively tells other teammates to switch to other characters), it often causes interna...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I've gotten sun-drunk a few too many times this summer. I'm loving the warm weather, but staying inside to play some video games sounds like an increasingly good idea. Overwatch just got Summer Games ...

Blizzard is pushing a new micro-event for Overwatch, and it's all Baptiste-themed. It'll run from now until July 1, and there's two parts to this challenge: one is actually playing the game, and the other is watching streamers play. For the...

Baptiste arrived in Overwatch in March after a long testing period, and Blizzard is doing right by him with a short origin story (that you can read here), which teases a potential new skin for the character. The tale joins a long line ...

And here come the variants! Good Smile Company has released images of the first Overwatch Nendoroid figurine to feature an alternate skin. And the hero in question is Korean cutie-pie and video game extraordinaire Hana Song, better known by...

One of the head honchos of Blizzard's Overwatch League is leaving the company to take up a new role with Epic Games. As reported by ESPN, Nate Nanzer will be joining the Fortnite developer to help grow the competitive scene of the popular b...

I'll never forget the first time I played Overwatch. I immediately gravitated toward the edgy and enigmatic Reaper, played a few games, and knew it was going to catch on with a certain crowd. I had that same feeling when I experienced it pr...

Blizzard has gotten another long-requested feature up and running in Overwatch: game replays! With the replay system, you can revisit your past 10 matches from a first-person, third-person, or overhead view with or without the user interfac...

[Update: The anniversary event is now live in Overwatch. Take a look at these new skins!] Has it really been three years of Overwatch? I forgot to get an anniversary gift, but there's still time to throw something together last-minute and h...

[Update: Havana has made it through testing on the PTR and is now playable in Overwatch on PC and PS4. Strangely, there's a slight delay on the Xbox One update. Along with the map, Blizzard has also opened up shop for Atlantic Mercy and Pac...

[Update: As of today, you can now buy the Lúcio and Mercy All-Stars 2019 skins.] Blizzard just lifted the lid on a new pair of special Overwatch skins created to celebrate the Overwatch League 2019 All-Stars event. This year, it's a ...

[Update: The Overwatch Workshop is now active for PS4 and Xbox One players.] Blizzard has debuted a new "power user" feature in Overwatch: the Workshop. Essentially, it's a way for folks to create and share wild game modes using a basic scr...

It's almost time to suit up for another Overwatch mission, as the multiplayer shooter prepares for its Storm Rising event, which goes live tomorrow and will run until May 6. An exciting new trailer shows the OW crew in action in their missi...