From Bastion and Torbjorn to McCree and his Fan the Hammer ability, it appears as though certain members of Overwatch's audience have a keen ability to detect what is "overpowered" in the game and…
June 10, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Nobody likes playing a match of any multiplayer game with an AFK (away from keyboard) teammate. Being one man down could be the difference between winning or losing, and that remains true in…
June 9, 2016 | 09:35 EDT
It’s official; everybody and their mother are playing Overwatch. Yesterday in a press release, Blizzard stated that since the game’s worldwide launch on May 24, over 7 million people have joined the…
June 3, 2016 | 04:45 EDT
Regardless of the game, balancing in multiplayer has always been a fickle thing. Every weapon has to have some kind of downside and a counter to it, otherwise no one would be using anything else and…
June 3, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
Blizzard Entertainment's first ever shooter has been out for a little over a week now, and all around the internet people are posting their best Plays of the Game to show off their well-timed…
June 1, 2016 | 11:54 EDT
It would appear Blizzard is not appreciating some of the supposed 'fan-made' content that is floating around for Overwatch. In accordance to DualShockers, Source filmmakers who are using ripped…
May 31, 2016 | 11:16 EDT
With a roster of 21 heroes that all have their own powerful set of abilities, it can be hard to find any particular hero that you will always need in Overwatch. Sure, you could opt for a hero that…
May 28, 2016 | 01:30 EDT
Overwatch is a game with a lot of characters. And, I mean a lot of characters. The roster currently has twenty-one unique heroes, all of which have vastly different weapons, appearances, and…
May 26, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
As I played Overwatch for hours and hours over the course of this month, I couldn't help but continue to wonder what we lost in the transition that turned Blizzard's next MMO into a team-based FPS. …
May 24, 2016 | 12:00 EDT
Blizzard has played a bit coy in the past with how Overwatch's post-launch monetization would work. Starting in December of last year they announced the heroes and maps would be free updates…
May 24, 2016 | 09:30 EDT
Today appears to be a special holiday in the gaming world with the release of Blizzard's highly anticipated shooter Overwatch going live this evening. In part of celebrating that and discussing some…
May 23, 2016 | 04:15 EDT
Overwatch is a game about CHANGING heroes. The more willing a player is to change from a hero to help deal with the enemy team: the more successful he's going to be. That's just a fact of life. While…
May 23, 2016 | 02:00 EDT
In just four shorts days Overwatch will officially launch on May 24, but before that Blizzard has some things to show off to get you even more excited for launch. After Blizzard released an image…
May 20, 2016 | 09:27 EDT
[Update] A new image has been revealed by the Overwatch twitter account today. The image shows a "prototype biotic rifle" blueprint that is based on Mercy's Caduceus Staff accompanied by statements…
May 19, 2016 | 09:38 EDT
Halo, Assassin's Creed, Hitman: these are just some of the games that have hit the holy grail of franchising by expanding into mediums that the developers probably never anticipated when they made…
May 17, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
It's been a tradition since time immemorial to cheat in games. Sometimes you want to see what the game is capable of after you've spawned a ton of vehicles in one location or you wanted to sow chaos…
May 14, 2016 | 09:50 EDT
Blizzard Entertainment released some specifics on the Overwatch open beta that ran from May 5 through May 9 last week, with players who preordered gaining early access to the beta on May 3. Over…
May 13, 2016 | 09:14 EDT
I first played Overwatch a little over a year ago at PAX East. I've played hours and hours of it since then in various betas and named it my most anticipated game of the year. Overwatch's excellent…
May 5, 2016 | 11:30 EDT
Nostalrius Begins, a private World of Warcraft server that was recently thrust into the limelight due to Blizzard Entertainment shutting them down, has released a new statement on their official…
May 1, 2016 | 06:21 EDT
Overwatch will be launching its open beta for everyone on May 5 and the fun will last until May 9. Get ready to annoy the crap out of people with Tracer, terrify people with Hanzo's ultimate, and…
April 28, 2016 | 08:10 EDT
I've been infatuated with Overwatch since it was announced, but only this weekend did I get a chance to play it. Overwatch is just as fun as I imagined it to be, but what really struck me was how…
April 21, 2016 | 12:00 EDT
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that Legion, the newest expansion for World of Warcraft, will be launching August 30th of this year. Legion is currently available for pre-order and boasts a…
April 18, 2016 | 11:51 EDT
Update: As of 11:30 AM EST on April 26th, 2016 – the petition for Legacy World of Warcraft servers has now reached over 235,000 signatures. Original Article: World of Warcraft, the highly…
April 16, 2016 | 03:20 EDT
Blizzard Entertainment has recently released the first episode of StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops, which attempts to answer the age-old question of what happens to everyone after the main storyline is…
April 14, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
On April 12, Blizzard announced that the Overwatch beta will open up to a much larger number of players by invite only this weekend (April 15-16). This expansion is being done in order to complete …
April 14, 2016 | 12:13 EDT
StarCraft II's powerful editor has produced a lot of interesting and downright innovative mods in the last few years. Now we are getting a Diablo II remake that might be the most impressive mod for…
April 13, 2016 | 06:14 EDT
On April 5 Overwatch received a patch that added new skins, sprays, player icons, voice lines, balancing fixes, and poses. Along with all of those additions the patch also added Competitive Play to…
April 11, 2016 | 02:54 EDT
Private servers have been a part of MMO culture for as long as the genre exists, and they have been a particularly stinging thorn in the side of the developers running their official servers. These…
April 7, 2016 | 08:00 EDT
This week, Blizzard has released a brand new alternative pose for Overwatch's time-jumping female adventurer, Tracer. After a recent update—which includes a new game mode, technical changes and a…
April 6, 2016 | 09:30 EDT
Update: Jeff Kaplan has released a more in-depth statement on the matter and why they are making the change as well as reopening the thread for discussion: Well, that escalated quickly……
March 28, 2016 | 08:41 EDT
Update: Overwatch fansite Overpwn have datamined the patch outlined below, and have managed to datamine 14 different modifiers for the weekly brawl mode. Among these are mystery heroes where players…
March 24, 2016 | 10:39 EDT
A few days ago Blizzard pleasantly confused a bunch of people by suddenly patching 2000's action RPG classic Diablo 2. Now they're at it again: Warcraft 3 is going to be updated to version 1.27 on…
March 12, 2016 | 02:18 EST
No, I'm not talking about Diablo 3. No, I'm talking about one of the most iconic games out there, and one that I personally spent a lot of time with: Diablo 2. Version 1.14a has been a long time…
March 10, 2016 | 09:48 EST
Advertising is a tricky thing, especially when you accidentally enable the advertisement for something sooner than you actually meant to do that. We already had the info that the arena shooter/MOBA…
March 7, 2016 | 03:06 EST
There are very few games that I have liked more than Team Fortress 2. It appeals to everything I like about games, starting with its variety of weapons and cartoon universe and ending with its hat…
February 25, 2016 | 01:00 EST
There is no question that World of Warcraft has been in some turbulent, up-and-down times recently, with subscribers in a definite gradual decline. I personally haven't played WoW on a regular basis…
February 24, 2016 | 01:00 EST
Those lucky individuals who were accepted into Blizzard's ongoing Overwatch beta will be pleased to know that the floodgates have been opened once again, only this time with a few more reasons to…
February 9, 2016 | 04:54 EST
If you've been lucky enough to get into the closed PC beta for Blizzard's new arena shooter with a MOBA twist Overwatch, you're were most likely pretty disappointed when the developer decided to take…
February 4, 2016 | 03:16 EST
Blizzard Entertainment has decided to push back the second phase of their Overwatch closed beta test to February. The reason why they are pushing back the beta is because they need a little more time…
January 23, 2016 | 09:31 EST
Blizzard has just uploaded a developer update to YouTube where Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan answers common concerns and question from the community, as well as update their fans on the state of the…
December 7, 2015 | 02:55 EST
Overwatch, Blizzard Entertainment's team-based arena shooter, will take down the ongoing closed beta for their game on December 10. The developer behind other popular games like World of Warcraft, …
December 4, 2015 | 10:52 EST
Before we get into the meat of this, I think it's fair to mention that I haven't been a fan of Blizzard's output in a long, long time. I haven't played World of Warcraft seriously since Burning…
November 25, 2015 | 12:00 EST
There is a certain narrative heft to Legacy of the Void’s storyline. Playing through it feels different from the past two entries in the StarCraft II trilogy, especially as the increasing certainty…
November 19, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Finally, after five years, the storyline of StarCraft II has ended; seventeen if you count the entire saga thus far. If you've played one of the game's campaigns before, you know what to expect – an…
November 12, 2015 | 01:00 EST
Blizzard Entertainment has released a ton of information for their newest expansion for World of Warcraft: Legion today, and as a result here is a roundup of the most prominent news that resulted…
November 6, 2015 | 09:31 EST
Today at BlizzCon 2015 the last three heroes, along with gameplay, were revealed for Overwatch. On top of the new hero reveals, the special editions of Overwatch available for purchase were revealed…
November 6, 2015 | 07:30 EST
At BlizzCon today, Blizzard's Mike Morhaime announced StarCraft 2: Nova Covert Ops. Nova Covert Ops is a 3 mission pack coming to StarCraft II in the Spring of 2016. https://www.youtube.com/…
November 6, 2015 | 05:23 EST
Overwatch, Blizzard Entertainment's Pixar-esque arena shooter, will definitely not be a PC exclusive. The game might also not be a free to play game like people previously thought. After the…
November 6, 2015 | 11:16 EST