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Don't Miss The Most Imaginative City-Building Game In Years
18.3.2025
There are so many degrees of scope when it comes to the city building format. The genre, that first flourished in the early ‘90s with SimCity 2000 has consistently delivered intricate excellence, with series like Tropico, Frostpunk and Anno, building to the triumph of 2015's Cities: Skylines....
Why Some Fans Are Cheering The Return Of Loot Boxes In Overwatch 2
13.2.2025
One of the funny things about being entrenched in a game’s community for years is that you sometimes forget how it might look to someone on the outside. That happened to me this week when Blizzard announced it would be bringing loot boxes back to Overwatch 2 in Season 15 after dropping the mystery...
11 Important Changes Coming To Overwatch 2 To Finally Get It Back On Track
12.2.2025
Blizzard is bringing some of the most substantial changes to Overwatch 2 that the game has seen since it launched in 2022. In a 30-minute-long Spotlight presentation, the company revealed several changes and new modes, as well as a new hero coming to the hero shooter in 2025. You can watch the full...
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...
Overwatch 2 Fans Are Tired Of Blizzard Playing Favorites
20.8.2024
Overwatch 2 has a lot of heroes on its roster. With Juno, the Martian support character joining the game in season 12, the hero shooter now has 41 different heroes for players to choose from. Spreading the love equally between all of them as far as skins and other cosmetics go is a tall order,...
Overwatch 2's Identity Crisis, The Hate Driving The Assassin's Creed 'Controversy,' And More Opinions For The Week
28.7.2024
This week, Ubisoft released a statement addressing what might generously be called a “controversy” about the upcoming Assassin’s Creed game, Shadows. Let’s be real, though. It’s just the latest salvo from a reactionary hate movement. You can read our thoughts on that, the terrific texture of Yakuza...
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...
Steven Spielberg, Why Did You Rob Us Of A Twisters Kiss?
22.7.2024
Steven Spielberg, who hurt you? Who denied you a smooch in your elementary school days that turned a corner of your heart black and made you hate kissing? If there was ever a movie that felt like it needed more kissing, it’s the recently released Twisters starring Glen Powell, a man who could have...
Overwatch 2 Fans Are Calling Its Tank-Centric Patch The Worst It’s Ever Had
10.7.2024
Overwatch 2 launched its Transformers crossover skins this week, and while those were obviously the headliner of the hero shooter’s July 9 update, they were accompanied by the game’s midseason balance patch. The buffs and nerfs were meant to address criticisms surrounding the lack of “tankiness”...
UBS Executive Highlights AI’s Impact on Banking
6.7.2024
UBS is witnessing a transformative shift in client interactions driven by artificial intelligence, according to Sabine Keller-Busse, the head of the Swiss bank’s domestic business. Keller-Busse compared the change to how patients now approach doctors with self-diagnosed conditions. UBS Sees...
Overwatch 2 Fans Are Sick And Tired Of Pharah
2.7.2024
Like any other competitive game, the meta for Blizzard’s hero shooter Overwatch 2 is constantly in flux. Sometimes a new hero like Mauga dominates when they debut and has to be reined in with some debuffs and tweaks. Other times a series of changes send characters skyrocketing to the top of tier...
Overwatch 2 Devs Agree: Tanks Are Miserable To Play Right Now
28.6.2024
Overwatch 2’s tank role has been in an awkward spot since the sequel took one of them out of the mix. Where once the role prioritized team-wide defense, Overwatch 2 has built and reworked tanks to be frontline brawlers. Since then, the role has been in constant flux as Blizzard has tried to better...
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 Is Reverting One Of The Sequel’s Most Controversial Changes
19.3.2024
Blizzard held a Developer Update stream with game director Aaron Keller, who gave new information about how Overwatch 2 will change up its release pipeline. This includes addressing one of the biggest complaints around the hero shooter sequel: new heroes will now be free to all players without...
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 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...
Overwatch 2 Left A Trail Of Broken Promises In 2023
21.12.2023
Overwatch 2 debuted in late 2022, and the controversial sequel to Blizzard’s beloved hero shooter struggled in its first few months. Messaging around it was confusing (we were meant to get a sequel that shared a multiplayer environment with the original game, instead the original game was shut...
Overwatch 2 Is Buffing Mauga Before Launch To Be As Strong As He Looks
16.11.2023
Overwatch 2 let players take Mauga, the hero shooter’s new tank character, out for a test drive during BlizzCon earlier in November. I didn’t really care for him then, and I found him somehow, despite his giant frame and powerful abilities, to be a bit of a pushover. That’s not what you want in...
The 11 Biggest (But Not Always Best) Moments From 20 Years Of Call Of Duty
7.11.2023
This year, the Call of Duty series turns 20. Few video game franchises are as popular or successful as Activision’s yearly war shooter series. Even if you don’t like the games or stopped playing them years ago, millions of people around the world continue to buy and play each new entry—and it’s...