After almost two decades at Blizzard, Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan has announced that he’ll be leaving the company. Across 19 years, Kaplan’s career saw him him work on games such as Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft, and Titan, the latter getting the axe and instead being transformed into Overwatch. As the director on its continual development, Kaplan became a beloved source of information in the fan community.
Jeff Kaplan mentioned that the game will be shown at next year’s BlizzCon Online. You just know someone wanted to call it BlizzConline but given the company’s recent history it would probably raise too many eyebrows.
A hastily deleted tweet has got fans speculating as to when the sequel (kind of) to Overwatch will be launching, and it may be sooner than expected.
The sequel to the incredibly popular competitive shooter will launch under different clients but eventually unite under a single launcher The thing about multiplayer focused games releasing sequels is that there’s instantly a fear that the servers of the original game will be shut down, essentially forcing people into newer versions of the game their either don’t enjoy or don’t …
In case you missed it, Blizzard announced that there’s a sequel for its hit team-based multiplayer FPS coming in the future. Yes, Overwatch is getting a sequel – but it’s a weird sort of half-sequel that’s been curiously communicated. For starters, if you’re playing Overwatch just for the PvP, you won’t even have to buy the new game. The new heroes and the new PvP modes will be playable from the older game – and Overwatch 1 and 2 players will be able to play together.
Overwatch's latest hero, Sigma, has only been available on the game's test servers for two days and already players are discovering that he may be one of the most impactive heroes ever.
Blizzard is introducing a brand new Workshop mode to Overwatch that will allow players to us in-game resources to create custom game modes and even prototype their own heroes.
The Overwatch World Cup has some crazy action! Unfortunately, that means that being able to watch it all the way you want to has been a bit of a pain in the past. That's all changing soon though.
Humans want connection and the internet is so far the best connection machine. A …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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