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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,...
These Transformers Didn't Make The Cut For Blizzard's Overwatch 2 Crossover
12.7.2024
Overwatch 2 just launched its Transformers crossover skins as part of its midseason update. Even as someone who is pretty burnt out on Overwatch doing crossovers while its own lore and story are being left to die, I have to admit Blizzard’s artists killed it on this one. Reinhardt, Ramattra...
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”...
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 Is Bringing Back The Mercy Skin Everyone’s Obsessed Over Since 2018
13.6.2024
Overwatch 2 typically cycles through skins and other cosmetics in its shop, offering certain skins for a few weeks before removing them. Some you can buy directly from the hero menu after they’ve left the shop. But there are some skins that have only been available through limited means and for...
Overwatch 2 April Fools’ Patch Continues A Hilarious Tradition
1.4.2024
As has become tradition, Blizzard has once again released an absolutely absurd, fully playable Overwatch 2 patch for April Fools’ Day. It is every competitive purist’s worst nightmare. But it is so unhinged and thorough I have to respect it.Read more
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 Just Killed One Of Its Most Famous Hero Combos
13.2.2024
Overwatch 2 is bringing a lot of sweeping changes in its season nine balance patch, and some of them are controversial. Between giving every hero a passive self-heal and every character getting a health buff across the board, Overwatch 2 feels like it’s shifting from a team-based shooter into...
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 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’s Latest Mercy Skin Sparks Fan Backlash
5.12.2023
Overwatch 2 season eight begins today, December 5, but Blizzard showed off its new skins, events, and latest tank hero, Mauga, before kick-off. And the sentiment from players about the skins for season eight has been mixed—Baptiste’s formal wear is a standout, but it’s sandwiched between some real...
Venture Is Overwatch 2’s First Non-Binary Hero
6.11.2023
While the new tank hero Mauga was the headliner of Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 showing at Blizzcon this weekend, the dev team also highlighted two more playable characters coming to the hero shooter next year: a DPS character named Venture and a support hero code named Space Ranger. If you only watched...
Overwatch 2 Players Raise Hell Over Moira's Pricey Lilith Skin
11.10.2023
Overwatch 2’s Halloween-infused seventh season, Rise of Darkness, went live on Monday, bringing with it a swath of creepy new skins for its heroes, including a hotly anticipated skin based on Diablo IV’s Lilith for sardonic healer Moira. Unfortunately, players who eagerly dived into the season...
Overwatch 2 Heroes’ Official Ages Sound Extremely Made Up
8.9.2023
For a game like Overwatch 2, in which its story has been trickled out over dozens of disparate external media stories rather than in one, cohesive thing—you know, like, a video game campaign?—there are bound to be inconsistencies along the way. But lord, seeing the game’s 38 heroes suddenly...
Overwatch 2’s Pride Event Shows Blizzard's Trying To Do Better By Its Queer Community
30.5.2023
It feels like Overwatch 2 is gayer than it’s ever been. First Lifeweaver was revealed as the series’ first pansexual hero, then dialogue seemed to hint that Baptiste was also queer. Now, a Pride event has confirmed that Baptiste is indeed, queer, and veteran hero Pharah is also a member of...