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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
With preseason play for the first season of the Overwatch League starting on December 6 and the official season beginning on January 10, people are looking forward to watching the many great teams that will make up the league. Three teams in particular have released information on what they will be doing for the coming season. The New York, Dallas and Houston team have been revealed as a part of the lead-up to the season. They are among the twelve […]
Another Overwatch character has joined the fray in Heroes of the Storm. The psychotic Australian explosives expert Junkrat has been added into the game as a new hero for play. But while he has a distinct look to him, he is not going to be available for use at the BlizzCon HGC Finals. Junkrat is just the latest character from Overwatch to get into Heroes of the Storm. He joins such favorites as D.Va, Ana, Lucio, Genji and Tracer among […]
Immortals are one of the teams that will be competing in the Overwatch League that will be stating on January 10, 2018. Blizzard has announced that those teams will have to complete their rosters before October 23 as it has been announced that full rosters of all teams will be revealed on October 24, 2017. Because of that, many of those teams have already started to figure out which players are the best for their team and which players will […]
With about 2 months to go until the inaugural season (or preseason, at the very least) of the Overwatch League, two cities are now able to lay claim to their own personal teams: the Shanghai Dragons, which coincided last week with the San Francisco area’s roster reveal, and now, the newly announced “Dallas Fuel.” The Dallas slot was acquired in late September by prominent esports organization EnVyUs; EnVy, which also boasts of an impressive array of rosters in Overwatch (duh), […]
With twelve teams in eleven cities announced so far with all of them being owned by various entities including a few professional sports teams, the Overwatch League is aiming to be the closest thing the esports world has to a professional sporting league. The evolution of the Overwatch League continues as the first official name and logo for a team in the league has been revealed. The Shanghai Dragons have revealed their team logo. The logo has an S-shaped shield […]
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