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Alan Velasco - Thu, Jan 30, 2025
The Overwatch franchise has been a mainstay in the hero shooter genre, though it has slowly lost a significant portion of its player base and hasn't returned to prominence with Overwatch 2, in part because of some poor management. The...
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Nathan Ord - Sun, Dec 31, 2023
Now that CEO Bobby Kotick is out at Activision-Blizzard, many are airing their grievances with the former leader. Among the many scandals or incidents that Kotick weathered, it would seem that Overwatch 2’s team was left to hang out and...
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Aaron Klotz - Tue, Jun 13, 2023
Overwatch 2 Season 5 is turning out to be one of the most jam-packed game updates so far in the game’s second iteration. Season 5 packs in a ton of added content, including the addition of two new game modes, a new role-playing campaign...
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Aaron Klotz - Wed, May 17, 2023
When Overwatch 2 was announced back in 2019, the developers unveiled big plans for the game, including the addition of a high-quality PvE gaming experience that would broaden the game’s scope well beyond its PvP assets. However, according...
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Aaron Klotz - Thu, Apr 13, 2023
Overwatch 2 Season 4 introduced a new ranking system to the game — on top of the controversial hero Lifeweaver — that would no longer cause seasonal rank resets and rank decay. However, due to miscommunication between the community and the...
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Tim Sweezy - Sat, Oct 15, 2022
Overwatch 2 has quickly become the go-to game for many, despite a rough launch. The reboot of the original has seen over 25 million players join in the fun, in the first 10 days since its launch, according to Blizzard.
It is not unusual...
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Lane Babuder - Wed, Oct 12, 2022
Where do you stand when it comes to aim-assist in games? There are players out there who consider it cheating, while others consider it a necessity if you're a console controller player. It seems Blizzard's take on it with respect...
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Lane Babuder - Wed, Oct 05, 2022
A smooth launch is critical for any games developer to set the stage for success. It seems like Blizzard has not had particularly good luck with that for its PC titles, though, and Overwatch 2's launch is not any different. Yesterday was...
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Mark Tyson - Wed, Oct 05, 2022
In Blizzard’s Overwatch 2, new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPUs like the RTX 4090 can propel pixels so fast that users can experience 500+ FPS gameplay, at the increasingly popular 1440p screen resolution. However, don’t worry about needing the...
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Chris Goetting - Thu, Sep 22, 2022
NVIDIA’s brand-new GeForce RTX 4090 GPU is wicked fast. So fast, in fact, that Blizzard feels the need to increase Overwatch 2’s rendering speed limit. The graphics card is easily able to exceed the current 400 frames per second cap, so...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Nov 02, 2019
At long last, Blizzard finally announced a "supercharged sequel" to Overwatch during BlizzCon 2019 (along with Diablo IV, in case you missed the news). Overwatch 2, the next installment of the developer's hugely popular first person hero...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, Oct 28, 2019
Blizzard Entertainment is holding its annual BlizzCon conference this week, and at the event, a new leak claims that Overwatch 2 will be officiated confirmed. The Overwatch logo changes for the new game with a small "2" placed to the...
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