Essentially a hero-based shooter, Overwatch assigns players into two teams of six, with each player selecting one of 24 pre-defined hero characters with unique movement, attributes, and abilities whose roles are divided into four categories: Offense, Defense, Tank, and Support. Players on a team work together to secure and defend control points on a map and/or escort a payload across the map in a limited amount of time. Players gain cosmetic rewards that do not affect gameplay, such as character skins and victory poses, as they continue to play in matches.
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The Toronto Defiant, following the initial reveal of their branding, has announced six of the players that will be competing under their banner in the second season of the Overwatch League: Offtank Kang-jae “Envy” Lee Off-healer Se-hyeon “Neko” Park DPS Lee “Ivy” Seung-hyun DPS Lee “Stellar” Do-hyung Main tank Jo “Yakpung” Gyeong-mu Main support Go “Aid” Jae-yoon The team will be coached by ex-Spitfire coach Beom-joon “Bishop” Lee. Both Envy and Neko competed in the Overwatch League’s inaugural season for […]
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Special merch. An all-Korean roster. Slick content production. During the inaugural season of the Overwatch League, it was to the New York Excelsior that such features were ascribed. Now, however, there seems to be a new challenger to what is essentially the clout throne, bearing similar attributes to the two-time stage champions: the Toronto Defiant. With a gritty introduction video, an intimidating style, and a talented roster to boot, the Defiant have established a solid presence in the scene before even […]
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Earlier today, the Overwatch dev team’s Geoff Goodman announced a series of changes to the ever-controversial hero, Brigitte (aka Brig). Included in the changes were: a Shield Bash damage nerf, being reduced from 50 to 5 (!); a reduction to her Inspire passive, from 1.5 seconds to 1, along with an increase in its longevity, expanding from 5 seconds to 6; and an increase in her E-ability healing from 80 to 100. Overall, her support aspect was buffed, while her […]
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Blizzard announced the identity of its newest hero for Overwatch at Blizzcon on Friday. The new hero is named Ashe and is a Damage fighter. An American criminal gang leader, Ashe was introduced in a short at Blizzcon. She appears to have been involved with fellow Overwatch hero McCree at some point. Ashe has an American Southwest motif to her. She also has an omnic named BOB who goes around with her. Blizzard states that BOB was originally the butler […]
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Some changes are expected to come about to four Overwatch heroes in a move that might influence future esports competitions. The new changes are currently active on Overwatch Public Test Region and are expected to go live to all versions of the game in the future, including versions regularly used in esports competition. Mercy’s Ult Becomes Stronger The first point to see entails the ultimate used by Mercy. The Valkyrie ult will be changed with a cost that is 15 […]
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USA Today, the nationwide newspaper had been operating a website dedicated to competitive Overwatch esports events. The Overwatch Wire site was designed to inform people about Overwatch events with a strong emphasis on Overwatch League events. However, USA Today has announced that it will be shutting down its Overwatch Wire site. The move leaves uncertainty as to whether USA Today will be covering the second league season when it comes along in 2019. This is also significant as USA Today […]
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The brackets for the 2018 edition of the Overwatch World Cup have been set up in time for the coming event at the Anaheim Convention Center on November 2-3. The event will be a part of the 2018 edition of Blizzcon, the prominent convention devoted to Blizzard’s various games and developments. The eight teams that will compete were the national teams that finished in the top two in the Incheon, Los Angeles, Bangkok, and Paris competitions. There were 24 teams […]
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Many people who compete in Overwatch have noticed that there are some heroes that are a little more popular than others. It seems like some people can’t go a single match without seeing Hanzo, Mercy, Reinhardt, Symmetra, Lucio, or D.Va among some other popular characters. But Omnic Media has found in an analysis of Overwatch players in September that there is an increasing diversity in the variety of heroes that people are playing as. The report found that the most […]
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Today, the entire world of eSports has been shocked by the news from the Overwatch competitions as it was revealed this morning that Dennis ‘Internethulk’ Hawelka has died at the age of 30. The entire world of eSports is in the state of denial and messages of support are coming from all sides and from all people who were involved in the Overwatch competition but also in other eSports competitions as well. The news about Internethulk’s death came as a […]
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The Blizzcon event held by Blizzard has revealed many new details on some of the company’s various games. These include new additions to many esports games from the company plus the announcement that its Starcraft 2 game will soon be a free-to-play game. Overwatch has been the subject of many major news stories at Blizzcon. The development of the new Blizzard World map and the creation of many new skins and other character features became a major talking point at […]
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