Opinions on Overwatch Map Pools and Hero Pools have been somewhat divided ever since they've debuted. Now, Blizzard Entertainment has announced that they're doing away with Map Pools altogether — and…
April 9, 2020 | 04:00 EDT
Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that the Overwatch League has proven there is a sizable audience that is interested in competitive gaming. Even if the OWL were to completely disband tomorrow,…
February 24, 2020 | 01:00 EST
The final showdown of the Overwatch League's second season has come to a close. The San Francisco Shock and the Vancouver Titans faced off in a glorious head-to-head fight in Blizzard Entertainment's…
September 30, 2019 | 07:03 EDT
The long-awaited Overwatch Role Queue system has finally been officially announced. Rumors of a role-lock feature have been floating around for the last several weeks, and we now know for certain…
July 18, 2019 | 09:34 EDT
Two NYXL homestand games are coming to the Overwatch League in 2020. If you haven't been following the league super closely, 2019 marked the second year of the league's operations and the first time…
July 17, 2019 | 09:30 EDT
For the past year, the 3/3 team composition (or GOATS) has been the talk of the town in Overwatch. While there have been a few variations of the 3/3 comp since its inception, the basic idea of the…
July 8, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
Trading cards developer and entertainment collectibles company Upper Deck has announced a set of Overwatch League Trading Cards, which is the first-ever esports league-licensed trading card product.…
June 19, 2019 | 03:37 EDT
Overwatch League replays will soon be available for anyone to watch. The Overwatch League is Blizzard Entertainment's Esports league for their premier first-person shooter Overwatch. Like many…
June 5, 2019 | 06:01 EDT
Overwatch League Commissioner Nate Nanzer has announced that he is leaving his position at Blizzard Entertainment to take on a new role at Epic Games. The announcement was made in the lead up to…
May 28, 2019 | 09:00 EDT
A new competition from Blizzard is heating up in Overwatch! The Overwatch Skins In The Game competition allows players to earn points for their favorite Overwatch League team by repping the hero…
May 28, 2019 | 08:45 EDT
The Overwatch Havana patch is here and it adds the newest Escort map to the game along with a few changes that have been in testing on the PTR. Furthermore, the Overwatch All-Stars skins for Mercy…
May 8, 2019 | 12:45 EDT
The first Dallas Fuel home game has attracted over 9,000 attendees in what is the first step to Overwatch League teams playing outside of the Blizzard Arena in Los Angeles County. The Overwatch…
April 29, 2019 | 01:20 EDT
The first Shanghai Dragons win has finally happened last night in their series against the Boston Uprising. After an 0-40 record in the inaugural season of the Overwatch League and 2 losses at the…
February 23, 2019 | 01:00 EST
The Overwatch Lunar New Year 2019 event is now live. This event celebrates the Year of the Pig as part of the Lunar New Year traditionally celebrated by Asian cultures. As with previous years, the…
January 24, 2019 | 04:25 EST
A Los Angeles Valiant St. Jude's partnership has been formed and the Esports organization will be trying to raise a hefty chunk of cash over the next two years. The Los Angeles Valiant is one of two…
December 18, 2018 | 04:05 EST
Atlanta Reign Homestand Games and Los Angeles Valiant Homestand Games have been announced by the Overwatch League. This is coming on the heels of the Dallas Fuel doing the same yesterday, making for…
December 13, 2018 | 04:32 EST
The Overwatch League Season 2 Schedule has been released by the Esports organization. Blizzard Entertainment had a fantastic first year with the Overwatch League and it's set to return on February 14…
December 13, 2018 | 04:13 EST
Overwatch League Away Skins are now available, giving players even more options for representing their favorite teams in the game. The Overwatch League is ramping up towards the start of its second…
December 12, 2018 | 06:12 EST
The Overwatch League will be hosting a Dallas Fuel Home Game in Texas next year, marking the first time that official matches are taking place in a team's home city. All of the Overwatch League games…
December 12, 2018 | 03:03 EST
D.C. sports fans will now have athletes of a different sort to cheer for: the Washington Justice has been revealed as the final expansion team for Season 2 of the Overwatch League according to a news…
December 3, 2018 | 10:30 EST
The seventh of the eight expansion teams for Season 2 of the Overwatch League has been revealed as the Vancouver Titans according to an announcement on the league's official website. Canadian fans of…
December 3, 2018 | 08:30 EST
The fourth (and final) Chinese team in the Overwatch League has been announced on the league's official website as the Hangzhou Spark. The Hangzhou Spark is the latest reveal of the eight expansion…
November 15, 2018 | 11:30 EST
The next of the eight expansion teams coming for the 2019 Overwatch League season is the Chengdu Hunters as revealed in a news post on the league's official website. The Chengdu Hunters are the…
November 12, 2018 | 04:37 EST
The next team to have their name and branding revealed for the Overwatch League is the Guangzhou Charge according to an announcement on the league's official website. The Guangzhou Charge is the…
November 9, 2018 | 01:46 EST
It appears that seven of the team names and logos of the eight expansion teams for the Overwatch League's second season may have been discovered according to a submission on the /r/OverwatchLeague…
November 8, 2018 | 04:30 EST
The Overwatch League has had the name of its next team revealed on the team's official Twitch channel: The Paris Eternal. The live stream was announced an hour prior to the start of the stream on the…
November 8, 2018 | 03:45 EST
The second of the Overwatch League's eight expansion teams has been named as the Toronto Defiant according to a news post on the league's official website. After a pretty solid first season, the…
October 25, 2018 | 11:28 EDT
The Overwatch League has announced the name of one of the eight upcoming expansion teams in a news post on the game's official website: the Atlanta Reign. Additionally, the as-yet-unnamed Paris team…
October 23, 2018 | 02:26 EDT
The second season of the Overwatch League will be commencing on February 14, 2019, according to a news post on the league's official website. The Overwatch League is an e-sports organization run by…
October 11, 2018 | 10:11 EDT
The Overwatch League will be expanding the number of teams from twelve to twenty for Season 2 according to a news post on the league's official website. Blizzard Entertainment first debuted the…
September 10, 2018 | 09:24 EDT
Blizzard Entertainment has dropped a bunch of news about their first-person shooter Overwatch, so we're putting the lot of it together into one convenient piece! The announcements include the start…
August 3, 2018 | 03:28 EDT
The conclusion to the first season of the Overwatch League will be happening tonight & tomorrow as the grand finals take place at the Barclays Center in New York City. Moreover, ESPN reports that…
July 27, 2018 | 02:30 EDT
The Overwatch League Grand Finals will be coming to the Brooklyn borough of New York City this July according to a news post on the league's official website. Now that we're well on our way into the…
May 10, 2018 | 09:00 EDT
Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan was live on stage during last night's Overwatch League broadcast to show off the latest PvE mission for the Overwatch Archives event. Set in the Rialto district of…
April 5, 2018 | 09:17 EDT
The Stage 2 Finals of the Overwatch League concluded yesterday with the winners taking home a $100,000 prize according to a news post on the league's official website. The New York Excelsior and…
March 26, 2018 | 10:00 EDT
Félix "xQc" Lengyel and the Dallas Fuel have parted ways according to a press release from the Texas-based Overwatch League team. The Dallas Fuel has announced that they have come to a mutual…
March 12, 2018 | 12:21 EDT
The Overwatch League has taken disciplinary action against three of its players and one head coach for violating elements of the league's Code of Conduct according to a news post on the league's…
March 10, 2018 | 11:56 EST
Overwatch League viewers can receive free League Tokens just by watching live matches on Twitch and some new skins can be unlocked by Cheering during matches according to a post on the Twitch blog.…
February 21, 2018 | 05:11 EST
Stage 2 of the Overwatch League kicks off tonight and a number of changes are coming for the next five weeks of play. The first stage of the Overwatch League concluded last week with one of the…
February 21, 2018 | 02:00 EST
Across most kinds of games, there generally exists some kind of feature that is presumably designed to help ease new players into a game until they build up a greater familiarity with more intricate…
February 20, 2018 | 09:00 EST
In a move that probably very few people expected, Overwatch has announced a Year of the Dog Puppy Rumble via the game's official Twitter account. At the moment, the Overwatch League is on a weeklong…
February 17, 2018 | 05:30 EST
The Overwatch League is streamlining the schedule for Stage 2 of their inaugural season according to a news post on the league's official website. Overwatch League Commissioner Nate Nanzer had…
February 15, 2018 | 05:47 EST
The Overwatch League has just completed Stage 1 of their inaugural season. The London Spitfire took on the New York Excelsior and won a 3-2 victory in a stunning reverse sweep. The first season of…
February 12, 2018 | 12:46 EST
Over the past couple of months, Overwatch players may have noticed that the game's most prolific healer, Mercy, has been enjoying a dominating pickrate in virtually every single match in both normal…
February 1, 2018 | 12:12 EST
From a conceptual standpoint, the Overwatch League is a natural and presumably inevitable progression of Esports as it, like the general direction that gaming is heading in, represents the…
January 30, 2018 | 01:00 EST
Update: The Dallas Fuel has benched xQc for the remainder of Stage 1 of the Overwatch League in a statement on their Twitter. https://twitter.com/DallasFuel/status/954562635520978945 The earliest he'…
January 19, 2018 | 11:48 EST
The Overwatch League, Blizzard Entertainment's professional e-sports league for their first-person shooter Overwatch, has had more than 10 million viewers in its first week according to a press…
January 17, 2018 | 05:23 EST
The inaugural season of the Overwatch League will kick off tonight with three matches featuring six of the league's teams. The Overwatch League is Blizzard Entertainment's dedicated esports league…
January 10, 2018 | 03:54 EST