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Play Overwatch For Free Thanksgiving Week

Play Overwatch For Free Thanksgiving Week

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Blizzard Entertanment’s Overwatch certainly doesn’t need extra promotion. Whenever a new character is introduced, the fans do the promoting for Blizzard, creating thousands of fanarts and flooding the Internet with them in 24 hours. The co-op team shooter is ingeniously built with Internet culture in mind, introducing colorful characters while giving you JUST enough story to spin your imagination and create your own narratives. But if Blizzard could pick a new promotional campaign, this is the one we’d have no argument with: they’re making the entire game free for a week. Thanksgiving Week — a time when millions of people will have time off to sample Overwatch. Beginning Tuesday, Nov. 20 at 11 AM Pacific / 2 PM Eastern, anyone can download the game and play with any of the 29 introduced characters, including new Ashe. Depending on your system of choice, Overwatch won’t be ENTIRELY free — going online with Playstation 4 or XBox One requires a PSN or XBox Gold subscription respectively. But you likely already have one

Gamescom 2017: New Overwatch Short

Gamescom 2017: New Overwatch Short

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Overwatch has revealed a new map called Junkertown, which just so happens to be the hometown of Junkrat and Roadhog. And, to commemorate the announcement, Blizzard has released a new short showing off the duo trying to get back into Junkertown…after getting booted out of it. It helps add some personality to the characters while also teasing what the whole map is about. “Nestled in the remains of the Australian omnium, Junkertown was once “home sweet home” to everyone’s favorite criminal masterminds, Junkrat and Roadhog. Since being exiled by the Queen of Junkertown, this dangerous duo has burned, bombed, robbed, and killed their way across the world in search of one thing: TREASURE! Now, these infamous Junkers have returned Down Under to bribe their way back into the Queen’s good graces. Will their plan work or will it all come up…explode-y?”

Gamescom 2017: Overwatch Gets New Map

Gamescom 2017: Overwatch Gets New Map

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Gamescom is already landing some big news, including one that Overwatch will be getting a new map via Junkertown. This place was actually the home to Junkrat and Roadhog, and now is being overrun by a band of Junkers (and their queen) that you now have to deal with. The map will be an Escort mission, where you’ll have to take a load of treasure across the town. Not an easy task. Here’s a trailer for the map, and the official description from Blizzard: “Junkertown is an Escort map located in the harsh and unforgiving Australian Outback. Constructed from the remains of a destroyed omnium, it’s now the home to a band of lawless scavengers known as the Junkers, led by their cutthroat Queen. When they aren’t pillaging the omnium’s skeleton for anything of value, the Junkers blow off steam in the Scrapyard—a massive gladiatorial arena whose combatants fight for glory, riches…and to survive.”

Overwatch Almost Had A Cat Hero

Overwatch Almost Had A Cat Hero

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Video games are meant to be fantastic and beyond the scope of reality in many ways. However, that doesn’t mean that the teams that makes these games don’t know the limits of what to put in them. Take for example, Overwatch. The MOBA shooter has a vast roster of characters that definitely defy reality, but apparently, they’ve cut out characters that breaks that reality a little too much. Director for the game Jeff Kaplan talked with Gamespot and revealed one Hero that just couldn’t be put in: “We had done a lot of concepting […] There was this one hero that was a huge internal debate on the team because we just loved it so much but it didn’t make it. It was this jetpack and it had this cat that laid in it, like a cat does. “Then every once in a while it would paw at the controls. It was a cat in a jetpack. That was one of those moments that helped define Overwatch. We just went,

Overwatch’s Bastion To Get Nerfed

Overwatch’s Bastion To Get Nerfed

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Overwatch is a shooter MOBA title that has you take control of a menagerie of heroes. These heroes are all unique, and as such, developer Blizzard has to constantly update and tweak the characters in order to ensure that everything is balanced. However, new changes to the hero known as Bastion has gotten the ire of the Overwatch community very quickly, so much so that Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan went to Battle.net to assure fans that fixes are being made right now: “Thanks for the thoughtful feedback here, everyone. We know Bastion is a big focus for everyone right now. I’ve been playing online games since they existed and now working on them for almost 15 years. One of the things I’ve learned about online communities is that change — any change — can cause a lot of anxiety. Back when I was working on World of Warcraft, I used to say that if we mailed 500 gold to every player, the community would find some way to be upset about

Overwatch Player Reaches Max Level Singlehandedly

Overwatch Player Reaches Max Level Singlehandedly

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A player in Overwatch has reached the maximum level available in the game. While TaZzerk is not the first player to do so, he does seem to be the only user to have reached the milestone without resorting to account sharing. According to a post on Reddit, the player was able to reach the max level after spending  a total of 1,700 hours in the game. This accounts for between 16 and 17 hours every single day since its launch six months ago – something he was only able to do as he has been out of work during that time. LVL 1800 REACHED ! World First without account sharing ? EU/US/KR First ! 6 months of intensive rush… THANKS EVERYONE ! ❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/OnACGvQhs7 — TaZzeRK (@TaZzeRK) November 27, 2016 Most players are probably not even aware that there is a max level in Overwatch. This is because it takes so long to reach it as it is set at an exceedingly high number of 1800. Once an account gets

Blizzard Confirms Cancellation of Overwatch: First Strike

Blizzard Confirms Cancellation of Overwatch: First Strike

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Unfortunately, fans who were hoping for a new graphic novel story based on the Overwatch franchise are a little out of luck. Blizzard Entertainment confirmed recently in a post on the company’s official forums that the release of the planned Overwatch: First Strike graphic novel has been cancelled. According to lead writer Michael Chu, the team has decided “to take the story in a different direction.” Apparently story changes and expanding upon ideas caused this major change. The graphic novel would’ve told the story of the early days of characters such as Gabriel Reyes, Jack Morrison, Ana Amari, Reinhardt Wilhelm and more. You can read Michael Chu’s full statement on the news below: I wanted to let you know that we have decided to cancel the release of the Overwatch: First Strike graphic novel. While we are grateful to the team for the fantastic work they put into it, we’ve ultimately decided to take the story in a different direction. The original idea for the graphic novel dates back to the

Overwatch Reaches 20 Million Players

Overwatch Reaches 20 Million Players

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Blizzard used a press release today to reveal that they have no reached more than 20 million players since release, making the game one of the most successful launches in recent times. The success is even more remarkable considering how Overwatch has only been available for some five months and is a full retail game rather than a free-to-play title like Team Fortress 2. While 20 million players may not equate exactly with that many sales, it is likely that the game is approaching the kind of sale numbers that only blockbuster titles like Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto can achieve. Overwatch is currently hosting a Halloween Terror event. This means that Loot Boxes have been changed to jack-o-lanterns that contain specially made spooky content and a new horse mode has been introduced to give players the chance to battle a variety of new enemies. The new cosmetic items include profile icons, sprays, victory poses, skins, emotes, amongst a variety of other items. Last week, the developer revealed

Overwatch Developers Working on Lots of New Content

Overwatch Developers Working on Lots of New Content

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Despite the huge popularity of Overwatch, there has been very little extra content added to the game in the five months since its release in May. In fact, there has only been one new map and one additional hero released in updates since the game’s launch. That is all set to change in the near future, however. Speaking on an Overwatch Developer Update video on YouTube. According to game director Jeff Kaplan, the team is currently working on two new heroes and six extra maps. Unfortunately, only a couple of them are set to release in the very near future, though Jeff made clear that they are sure they will be out before too long. “We are actively working on more heroes right now. One hero is very far along. It’s coming together really well. We’re playtesting it internally across the whole company, and we believe this hero will see the light of day sooner rather than later.” “We also have another hero prototype that we’re extremely happy with right

Overwatch Available To play For Free Next Weekend

Overwatch Available To play For Free Next Weekend

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Those who haven’t played Blizzard’s intensely popular shooter yet will have their chance next weekend when the game will be available to download and play for no charge. Starting from September 9 and running to September 12, players can download the game and play it on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The only restriction of playing is that Xbox One players will need to have an active Xbox Live Gold membership. The same limitation doesn’t apply to PlayStation 4 users, meaning a PlayStation Plus members isn’t required. You’ll need plenty of hard drive space in order to get a chance to play though. The PlayStation version of the game requires 9GB of space, while the Xbox edition needs a whopping 15GB. This Is because all the maps, characters, and game modes are available to play in the free trial.

You Can Now Stream Blizzard Games On Facebook

You Can Now Stream Blizzard Games On Facebook

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It is now possible for those playing any of Blizzard Entertainment’s modern titles to stream their footage directly to Facebook. The news means that users will be able to share their gameplay with their friends using Facebook Live, in an exclusive arrangement between the two companies. The arrangements, which was first announced in June, also gives players the chance to use their Facebook account details to sign up and play games such as Overwatch, rather than having to create a brand new Battle.net account. Unfortunately, the service is not available in all territories. Only those in the Americas, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand can take part – though the publisher has said it is working to bring streaming to other locations as soon as possible.

Overwatch Graphic Novel In The Works

Overwatch Graphic Novel In The Works

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With more than 10 million players across all platforms, Overwatch has become a huge success in its short lifespan. That popularity is now crossing over into other mediums as Blizzard has revealed that a graphic novel based on the game is being developed. According to a report by IGN, the publisher has signed an exclusive deal with Dark Horse to release the Overwatch comic series in physical form in addition to creating their own 100-page graphic novel. It is set to be available from April 2017, though an exact release date has not yet been given. This will be followed in the summer of the same year with a hardcover book called The Art of Overwatch. Although Dark Horse and Blizzard are not giving away much detail about the comic series or the graphic novel, they have revealed that they will expand on the story of the original strike team, giving some backstory and additional details that were purposely left blank in the game.

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