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Overwatch 2 Fans Have Thrown Sombra In Jail
1.5.2025
Overwatch 2’s new season is one of its most robust. On top of adding the new Stadium mode and the game’s 43rd hero, the crossbow-wielding Freja, Blizzard also implemented hero bans for competitive play. Players who are queuing up for ranked matches can now vote to ban four heroes, with only two...
Overwatch 2 Removes Its Newest Mode From Competitive Play
31.1.2025
Overwatch 2 has what Blizzard calls “groundbreaking changes” on the way next month, but before that, it has a smaller, welcome one in the pipeline. Clash, introduced in season 12, is Overwatch 2’s newest game mode. As director Aaron Keller describes it, the mode was inspired by the original hero...
Six Things Marvel Rivals And Overwatch 2 Can Learn From Each Other
29.1.2025
Marvel Rivals has been given a lot of shit for its unapologetic poaching of Overwatch’s ideas. From the overall format down to individual hero’s kits, NetEase copiedBlizzard’s homework and didn’t try to change it much. That being said, it’s nice that Overwatch 2 has a direct competitor to put...
As Marvel Rivals Soars, Lapsed Overwatch Fans Grieve A Game They May Not Go Back To
15.1.2025
Marvel Rivals, NetEase’s stab at a hero shooter starring Marvel’s iconic heroes, is doing exceptionally well a month after launch. It’s accumulated over 20 million players across PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, and its second season starring the Fantastic Four is off to a strong start. The studio...
Is Blizzard Teasing An Overwatch ‘Classic’?
8.11.2024
Overwatch 2 has been in such a rough spot as of late that it’s impossible to not be nostalgic for the original game’s heyday. The sequel hasn’t panned out the way Blizzard promised after it reportedly canceled the story campaign that was the whole point of a sequel. So it’s easy to look at all...
Overwatch 2 Is Bringing Back 6v6 Sooner Than Expected
24.10.2024
Overwatch 2 announced it was considering testing out a return to its original 6v6 format after swapping to its current, controversial 5v5 structure back when the sequel launched in 2022. Now, it sounds like that test is coming up sooner than originally expected, as Blizzard has announced it will...
Overwatch 2 Is Trapped In A Crisis Of Its Own Making
25.7.2024
Today Blizzard published a lengthy Overwatch 2 Director’s Take addressing the Reinhardt-sized elephant in the room: whether or not the sequel should revert back to the original game’s 6v6 format. Written by game director Aaron Keller, the massive blog post traces back to Overwatch 1 and the major...
Community-Made Overwatch 2 Mode Is So Good Fans Want Some Of Its Changes In The Main Game
21.6.2024
Every Overwatch 2 player has opinions about balance changes and reworks for their favorite heroes. Sometimes they’re impractical power fantasies to make their main more powerful, but other times, there are some real thoughtful ideas floating around forums and social media. Blizzard gave a handful...
Overwatch 2 Players Face Bans For Leaving Games They Never Did
24.4.2024
Overwatch 2 outlined several new rules and penalties it would be implementing in season 10 to help curate a less hostile player environment on April 10. But since the season began last week, players have been reporting bans that would typically be applied to someone leaving a game early being...
Overwatch 2 Players Are Waiting Over An Hour In Ranked Queues
17.4.2024
Overwatch 2’s tenth season is officially underway, and everybody’s pretty happy with the new damage hero Venture, and the fact that they (and the rest of the Overwatch 2 cast) are officially free for everyone after being locked behind the battle pass for over a year. Blizzard has also added several...
Overwatch 2's Plans To Be Less Toxic Have One Major Flaw
10.4.2024
Overwatch 2 is getting some big changes in its tenth season starting April 16, with some of the biggest impacting how it handles the social elements of competitive play. Blizzard laid out its plans to make Overwatch 2 “a fun, safe, and inclusive experience” through a blog post on the shooter’s...
Overwatch 2 Fans Have Already Embraced Its New, Non-Binary Hero
27.3.2024
Overwatch 2’s ninth season is nearly over, and when the tenth begins on April 16, the hero shooter is getting a few significant changes.All of its heroes will no longer be locked behind the battle pass and the game will get a new shop dedicated to Mythic Skins only. But Overwatch 2 is also getting...
Overwatch 2 Devs Fear Story Missions Have Been Canceled
18.3.2024
In the last few months, Overwatch 2 fans have grown increasingly worried about the state of the hero shooter’s story missions. These missions were a pillar of the sequel’s initial pitch at Blizzcon 2019, the shiny new thing that merited making a new game instead of patching the original one, like...
Overwatch 2 Needs To Leave Quick Play Alone
8.3.2024
Overwatch 2, like most live service games, often implements big changes that don’t necessarily stick around. In 2020, there was an Experimental mode that changed the original Overwatch’s team composition to one tank, three damage heroes, and two supports that was quickly reverted. Hero tweaks have...
Overwatch 2’s Latest Change Has The Community Shook
14.2.2024
Overwatch 2’s ninth season is underway, and it’s bringing some sweeping changes to the hero shooter. On top of reworking Pharah and giving every hero both a health buff and a passive heal, Blizzard also increased the projectile size of most heroes’ weapons. In layperson’s terms, they made...
Overwatch 2 Is Reworking Its Ranked Mode, We Are So Back
8.2.2024
Last year, Overwatch 2 developer Blizzard promised that changes were coming to the hero shooter’s competitive mode, the ranked version of the traditional 5v5 (once 6v6) gameplay. At the time, it wasn’t clear when the changes were coming or what they would be, but as a competitive sicko with...
Overwatch 2’s Season Nine Brings Some Of The Most Drastic Changes Yet
8.2.2024
Overwatch 2’s ninth season is going to be a big shift for the hero shooter when it starts on February 13. Alongside implementing the previously announced passive healing for all heroes, season nine is bringing other sweeping changes geared around increasing hero survivability, but a few other...
Overwatch 2’s Next Anime Collaboration Is Cowboy Bebop
7.2.2024
Overwatch 2’s second big anime collaboration is coming in season nine, and this time, it’s all about the classic ‘90s space western Cowboy Bebop. This marks the first big crossover event the game has put on in 2024, and cements that Blizzard is more than willing to go back to the anime well after...
Apex Legends Is One Of The Few Games Doing Ranked Right
5.2.2024
Apex Legends is celebrating its fifth anniversary in style, with major changes coming to the battle royale across the loot pool, armor system, and Legend abilities later this month. During a two-day presentation and hands-on media preview, developer Respawn also outlined extensive plans to rework...
Overwatch 2 Introducing Massive, Controversial Change
12.1.2024
Take a breather, support players, Overwatch 2 is about to roll out an update that will make your job much easier. It looks like every character will get the self-healing passive ability once reserved for support players in the hero shooter’s ninth season. It’s certainly an interesting choice.Read...