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Overwatch Lunar New Year Event Starts on January 24
Early Start for the Lunar New Year Blizzard has now officially announced the Lunar New Year event start date for Overwatch. Surprisingly, it is much earlier than some rumours suggested and will actually begin as early as next week. Specifically starting on January 24th and will run for a little…
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Overwatch Update Sees Brigette/DVA Nerfs & Reaper Boosted
Overwatch Update One of the things I love the most about Overwatch is the sheer amount of content that Blizzard has added since it originally launched. All of which, incidentally, comes free with the base game. One of the major plus factors, however, is the regular manner in which new…
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Overwatch Team Discovers ‘Female’ Member Was Likely A Hoax
Overwatch Team ‘Female’ Member Was A Hoax? While it isn’t necessarily unusual, it is certainly uncommon to see female gamers who play competitively. A North American team, however, did have a female member. Known as ‘Ellie’ the player was drafted into the Overwatch League team and proved to be a…
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Blizzard Reports Sacking Of Chief Financial Officer
Blizzard Sack Chief Financial Officer It’s not much of a secret that Blizzard/Activision has not been having a very good time of it recently in terms of their finances. With the failure of WoW Battle For Azeroth to revive the flagging subscribers (despite the traditional launch spike) and the…
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Blizzard Names 18,000 Banned South Korean Overwatch Players
Overwatch If you play Overwatch, you will be aware of how Blizzard has been taking very proactive steps to ensure that the community is as ‘clean’ as possible. Through the use of in-game reports, Blizzard has been regularly handing out suspensions or bans against anyone they feel is not acting…
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Jack Black Launches ‘Jablinski Gaming’ YouTube Channel
Jack Black has Entered the Game Move over Will Smith, there is a new Hollywood celebrity in YouTube town. This time it is none other than Tenacious D’s Jack Black. The announcement is the only video available so far from Black’s Jablinkski Games channel. However, it is already #1 in…
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Blizzard Announce Overwatch League Discipline Tracker
Overwatch League Discipline Tracker Over the last year, Overwatch master Jeff Kaplan has made it pretty clear that he doesn’t want any toxic players in the game. Fearing it may decent into CS:GO levels of abusive, many, many, players to date have been issued with bans (temporary or permanent) for…
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Blizzard Offers 100 Staff Voluntary Redundancy
Blizzard Offers 100 Staff Voluntary Redundancy There are more than a few growing rumours that there may be a few cash-flow issues currently at Blizzard/Activision. For example, it’s been well known that Destiny 2 has not proven to be a particularly huge success. Additionally, while the latest World of Warcraft…
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Overwatch Removes Blizzard World Christmas Map
Overwatch Removes Blizzard World Christmas Map In terms of casual gaming, I’m a pretty big fan of Overwatch. In terms of the way in which they police the toxicity, not so much. Either way though, in terms of providing a lot of fun content for free, it is certainly one…
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Adult Website Says New Game Has Replaced Overwatch
Fortnite Overtakes Overwatch… In Adult Searches Ok, let’s all try and be a little grown up about this if we can and keep the giggles to a minimum. Apparently, there is rather a lot of people who, when searching for adult material, seemingly orientate towards video game characters. I should…
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Overwatch 2018 Winter Event Starts December 11
Festive Season for Overwatch It is that time of the year once again. Overwatch is hosting yet another Winter Wonderland event. This time starting on December 11 and will run until January 2. As usual, fans can expect new skins and the return of Winter Wonderland specific game modes. This…
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Overwatch Free to Play Event Runs from November 20 to 26
Free to Play for a Limited Time Once in a while Blizzard decides to run a free to play event for Overwatch. It just so happens that this next free to play event will start next week on Tuesday, November 20. It will run up until November 26, Monday. Essentially…
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Next Overwatch Update Will Require A Complete Re-Installation
Next Overwatch Update Is Very Unusual! Overwatch, despite being 2 years old now, is still (at least in my opinion) one of the best team-based first-person-shooters out there. The fantastic combination of a bright and vivid design with a fantastically varied roster makes it something very different compared to many…
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Overwatch Hero 29 ‘Ashe’ is Now Playable on PTR Patch 1.30
Now Playable on Overwatch Public Test Servers Blizzard revealed Overwatch‘s latest hero Ashe at BlizzCon 2018 earlier this weekend. She was also only playable there at the showroom floor. However, it looks like Blizzard decided to put her up early on their Public Test Region (PTR) servers. So players will finally…
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Overwatch’s Latest Hero is a Shotgun Wielding Outlaw
With a Robot Butler Sidekick Blizzard is further expanding the hero roster for Overwatch with the introduction of Ashe. She is a shotgun wielding outlaw and the leader of the Deadlock Gang. The group is of course well-known as the one responsible for hijacking the payload in the Route 66…
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