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Storm Rising Now Live: Patch Notes for April 16th The Storm has arrived and brings new skins, a PvE mission and Hero changes!

Live Patch, Mar 19th: Baptiste, Balance for 19 Heroes and More Baptiste enters live servers and 19 Heroes get some balancing, in addition to armor tweaks and more.

PTR Notes Feb 26: Baptiste, Armor, Knockback and Hero Changes The new PTR patch brings the new support Hero and a lot of changes to others as well.

Activision Blizzard Q4 2018 Earnings Call & Layoffs The company is reducing the number of non-development positions by 8% and increasing devs across key franchises by 20%.

Lunar New Year Event and Patch Notes: Jan 24th The new event is here, with the CTF game mode, new cosmetics and Hero balance changes!

News and Guides for Overwatch

Kevin Johnson Leaves Blizzard Kevin "Cloaken" Johnson announced on Twitter a few days ago that he is leaving the company. The voice of Heroes of the Storm was narrating Hero spotlights before the changes to the game and got later transferred to work on a different game within the company earlier this year. Blizzard Blizzard Today at 10:56 by Stan 10 comments

New Havana Map, Free Week, Dev Update There's a whole bunch of Overwatch news to cover, starting with the free week that's going on right now! Why exactly we're only finding out about it two days into the free week is the question, and why it was only tweeted on the EU account is another mystery. What is clear is that the free game time lasts until April 23rd, the game is free on all platforms, and there's a 25% off sale for the base game, 50% off the Legendary edition lasting until April 28th: Overwatch OW Apr 18, 2019 at 18:27 by Starym 3 comments

Icy Veins Podcast Episode #40 In Episode #40, we cover Essences, mount equipment, and the customizable trinket from Mechagon. Sophia helps us cover Hearthstone and we discuss fun Rise of Shadow decks and Ignoblegarden. Icy Veins Icy Veins Apr 17, 2019 at 23:09 by Stan

Storm Rising Now Live: Patch Notes for April 16th The latest Overwatch event is now live, with the Archives opening up to Storm Rising, an old operation Tracer, Mercy, Genji and Winston undertook in Cuba to take down Doomfist's accountant! We also have significant Hero changes for Junkrat's main gun, Reaper's Shadow Step and a minor change to Symmetra's Teleport, as well as the usual improvements and bug fixes. Overwatch OW Apr 16, 2019 at 19:33 by Starym

Storm Rising Trailer and 4 New Event Skins The latest Archives event is almost upon us, less than a day away in fact, and we have a bunch of new skins that have been revealed over the last few days, but, more importantly, here's the trailer for Storm Rising! Overwatch OW Apr 15, 2019 at 22:33 by Starym

Possibly the Best Highlight Intro Ever + 3 New Skins Revealed As the Archives event comes ever closer, the cosmetics reveals are heating up, especially in the highlight intro arena. In a surprise reply to a fan's tweet, Blizzard shared a snippet of possibly the best highlight intro so far, ever, featuring Wrecking Ball: Overwatch OW Apr 13, 2019 at 00:55 by Starym 3 comments

Talon Baptiste and Clown Junkrat Skins Revealed 5 more days until the Storm Rises and we have two previews of the skins coming with the new Archives event, as we get to see Baptiste's previous association with Talon, as well as Junkrat's pre-demolitionist job?? I never knew we needed a Batman vs. Junkrat move until now. Overwatch OW Apr 11, 2019 at 15:30 by Starym 1 comment

Archives Page Updated, 9 New Skins, 3 New Intros Coming The Overwatch Archives page has been updated and given a new look! We have the Storm Rising event added as well, with all the new skins and intros still classified, but it lets us know that there will be 9 new skins and 3 new highlight intros coming. The page itself is looking great, with all the skins from previous years also shown, and you can even check out which you've unlocked and which you haven't, as well as check in on previous Archives events. Overwatch OW Apr 10, 2019 at 12:55 by Starym 2 comments

Overwatch Archives: Stom Rising Coming April 16th And we have the announcement! This year's Overwatch Archives event is called Storm Rising and is indeed taking us to Cuba, where Tracer, Genji, Mercy and Winston will be chasing down Doomfist's accountant. Presumably to do more than check his taxes. The event starts on Tuesday, April 16th and will last through May 6th. Also, if this year's event follows suit, we should also be seeing a new map come out later on set in the same Cuba location.

Here's the announcement tweet and video, as well as the previous tease detailing the strike team and target involved: Overwatch OW Apr 09, 2019 at 16:07 by Starym

"Diablo Immortal Pretty Much Ready" Says NetEase CFO Blizzard is co-developing Diablo Immortal with NetEase Inc. and the company's Chief Financial Officer Yang Zhaoxuan told analysts during a conference call that the game is ready from their perspective, according to Bloomberg reports. Blizzard Blizzard Apr 08, 2019 at 11:23 by Stan 22 comments

New Map and Archives Tease: Cuba It seems we're heading to Cuba for the next Overwatch map and most probably for the next Archives event as well! Usually we see the Archives event show up around April 10th every year, and it focuses on a PvE mission that covers a specific period in Overwatch history. Last year we had Retribution, which eventually gave us the Rialto map, where  Reyes, McCree, Shimada and O’Deorain fought Talon, and the year before that was Uprising, which saw Tracer, Torbjörn, Reinhardt, and Mercy fight Null Sector Omnics before the Overwatch organization was even founded . Overwatch OW Apr 07, 2019 at 17:08 by Starym 2 comments

Icy Veins Podcast Episode #39 We're back with a brand new episode of the Icy Veins Podcast, where we talk with Deadset about Diablo's upcoming Patch 2.6.5 and Season 17 that wll be available for playtesting for a week starting Friday and we also cover what's coming in World of Warcraft's next major content update, Patch 8.2. Icy Veins Icy Veins Apr 03, 2019 at 20:22 by Stan

Pre-order Your Official Lucio Statue Today It's time to *catchphrase*! Everyone's favorite DJ/speed demon is coming to real life once again as his statue will be available later this year. You can pre-order it already and it will arrive sometime before the end of Q3 2019 and, unlike some recent famous Blizzard character statues, it looks just like the Brazilian! Overwatch OW Apr 02, 2019 at 19:38 by Starym 2 comments

Blizzard Websites Fully Localized for Murloc Players Blizzard has been hard at work to localize all their websites into Nerglish, the language of Murlocs. Blizzard Blizzard Apr 01, 2019 at 18:43 by Stan 7 comments

Warcraft 1 and 2 Now Available on GOG Following the original Diablo's addition to the Good Old Games store Blizzard are now adding Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Warcraft 2 Battle.net edition (which has Beyond the Dark Portal included) as well! The franchise's 25th anniversary is coming up this year and this is a great way to celebrate (in addition to the upcoming Warcraft 3: Reforged)!
Here's the full announcement: Blizzard Blizzard Mar 28, 2019 at 15:01 by Starym 7 comments

PTR Notes, March 25th: Junkrat and Reaper Buffs This most recent PTR seems like it's going for most updates ever as we get more changes! This update is very Hero focused as Junkrat and Reaper get buffs, Symettra gets better at teleporting things and there's a whole lot of Hero-related bug fixes. We also get to select random victory poses and an option for your profile only being viewable by your current group! Overwatch OW Mar 26, 2019 at 03:17 by Starym 4 comments

Endorsement System Cut Toxicity by 40% During a GDC talk Blizzard announced that since the introduction of the endorsements system "disruptive behavior" has been reduced by over 40%. The system itself was introduced in the June 25th 2018 patch and in case you're not familiar with it, here's the official description, and you can also check the developer update announcing the system here: Overwatch OW Mar 25, 2019 at 15:30 by Starym 9 comments

Icy Veins Podcast Episode #38 In Episode 38 of the Icy Veins Podcast, we speculate about the Derek & Jaina Reunion Cinematic, discuss Hearthstone's Rise of Shadows expansion with Sophia, and go through main features of the latest Heroes of the Storm update that will go live next week. Icy Veins Icy Veins Mar 20, 2019 at 23:34 by Stan

Live Patch, Mar 19th: Baptiste, Balance for 19 Heroes and More Here comes Baptiste! And he's bringing with him a whopper of a patch with a huge amount of Hero changes. There's also yet more changes to how armor works, this time in relation to damage over time effects, with them having varied greatly and being more normalized now. Damge boost also got a look and it now applies when a projectile is fired as opposed to when it his. Overwatch OW Mar 19, 2019 at 23:00 by Starym

Official Cosplay Battle Finals Voting The official Cosplay Battle Europe projects are done and we have 6 amazing entries from 6 European countries, whose topics were chosen by the community and that the artists put a huge amount of effort into. Now it's time to vote for the best and get a chance to win one of 10 Overwatch goodie bags filled with art books, Funko Pops, plushies and a lot more! Overwatch OW Mar 19, 2019 at 14:29 by Starym 1 comment

Baptiste Is Coming Next Week + Big Q&A We just got word that Overwatch Hero 30 will be arriving on Live servers next Tuesday! The support/DOS hybrid has proven to be popular on the PTR and we also got a very in-depth Q&A session with the devs covering both his lore backstory and gameplay mechanics and balance. Overwatch OW Mar 13, 2019 at 20:06 by Starym 2 comments

Icy Veins Podcast Episode 37 In the latest episode of our podcast, we talk about Patch 8.1.5 release date, Tools of the Trade items, and Island Expedition gear tokens. We also discuss the new Esports format and the Year of the Dragon in Hearthstone with Sophia. Icy Veins Icy Veins Mar 06, 2019 at 23:48 by Stan

PTR Notes, March 6th: Junkrat and Zarya Balancing It's been a particularly active PTR this time around, with multiple patches changing up Heroes. Today's brings some QoL and visual improvements to new Hero Baptiste as well as an increase to Junkrat's Ult cost, while Zarya's alt fire radius continues to get tinkered with. There's also a lot of Baptiste bug fixes, mostly related to the Immortality Field, as well as some Lucio wall ride improvements. Overwatch OW Mar 06, 2019 at 22:34 by Starym

PTR Notes, March 1st: Symmetra Buff, Baptiste Fixes No more Ults from car accidents! We have some Baptiste tweaks today as well as Symettra's primary fire ramping up faster, in addition to a few more bug fixes. Overwatch OW Mar 02, 2019 at 00:44 by Starym 4 comments

PTR Notes, Feb 28: Dev Comments on the New Hero Changes The announced additional Hero changes have now gone live on the PTR and we got the fully detailed patch notes, with developer comments included and a few more bug fixes. For the initial notes of the latest PTR head on over here. Overwatch OW Feb 28, 2019 at 22:09 by Starym

More Significant Hero Changes Coming to PTR The Baptiste PTR arrived recently with plenty of Hero changes, but we're not quite done with them yet. Today or tomorrow we'll be getting a lot more, featuring Lucio's speed buff getting nerfed in both passive and active modes, Mercy's bonus damage will ramp up more quickly and Junkrat, Reaper, Symmetra, Zarya and Zenyatta are also getting changes. Overwatch OW Feb 28, 2019 at 20:01 by Starym 1 comment

Dev Update: Introducing Baptiste We've seen his origin and his abilities, now it's time to delve deeper as Jeff Kaplan talks about Hero 30 and his kit in detail! From more info on his backstory to the general gameplay, as well as the specific abilities and his place in the meta, we get a lot of new info here, so check it out: Overwatch OW Feb 26, 2019 at 21:09 by Starym

PTR Notes Feb 26: Baptiste, Armor, Knockback and Hero Changes The new Hero reveal continues as Baptiste has arrived on the PTR today! We got an intro video for him, in addition to yesterday's origin story and the developer update, as well as bunch of other patch notes as well! Overwatch OW Feb 26, 2019 at 19:12 by Starym 5 comments

Hero 30: Baptiste Origin Story It didn't take long for the teases to move on to a reveal as we got our first look at Hero 30 today! So far we only have Baptiste's origin story, but there's plenty of info to work with already: a combat medic who left Talon to make the world a better place, and who seems to be holding an interesting looking gun (possibly a type of grenade launcher?). In any case he's a support Hero which brings their number up to par with the tanks, and he'll also be leaning more on the DPS side of things than Heroes like Brigitte. Overwatch OW Feb 26, 2019 at 04:48 by Starym 7 comments

Hero 30 Teased - Ex-Talon Combat Medic? Here we go with another round of speculation on an upcoming new Hero reveal! Today we got our first hint at Hero 30, who's expected to show up some time next month. It seems his name is Baptiste and he left Talon, who weren't all that happy about it and decided to track and take him down. Overwatch OW Feb 22, 2019 at 01:14 by Starym 12 comments

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