Overwatch

Internal Blizzard Memo Details Efforts To Hire, Retain More Women

Blizzard is launching a “global diversity and inclusion initiative” aimed at raising the percentage of women and underrepresented minority groups in its workforce and improving the work environment for those groups, according to an internal company email recently received by Kotaku Only 21 percent of Blizzard employees are women, wrote company president Mike Morhaime in…

True Rich Asshole Stan Kroenke Adds Overwatch Team To L.A. Sports Empire

The Overwatch League has added to its rapidly expanding collection of widely loathed traditional-sports honchos, as Stan and Josh Kroenke, owners of Arsenal, the Los Angeles Rams, a dizzying array of Colorado franchises, and whatever is on Stan’s head have bought a Los Angeles team for a reported $20 million The Kroenkes aren’t the first…

Overwatch, A Game About Teamwork, Is Getting A Free-For-All Deathmatch Mode

For the longest time, Blizzard has been staunchly against the idea of deathmatch modes in Overwatch. It’s a game about teamwork and objectives, after all. Deathmatch has a way of drastically de-prioritizing both of those things. Now, though, the dev team has had a change of heart. In a new video, Jeff “From The Overwatch…

Overwatch Fans Can’t Decide If McCree Is Hot Or Not

Terrible news, everyone: professional doof McCree, a fake cowboy who can’t even quote a more famous fake cowboy correctly, got hot. The Overwatch community is struggling with this sudden and confusing development. Yesterday, Blizzard updated Overwatch with a new Summer Games event that includes a bunch of themed skins, among them a lifeguard skin for…

The New Overwatch Beach Skins Are 🔥

With a new Overwatch event comes new skins, and the new outfits for the Summer Games are pretty dope. Summer is for lying out on the beach, getting your tan on, and grilling, and the new Overwatch skins got that on lock. You can check ‘em all out on the Overwatch website, but my personal…

Rad GTA Trick Backfires

Today on Highlight Reel we have new friends, cool tank jumps, detectives, FIFA poses, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! L.A. Noire –…

Mercy by ladymelamori, photo by Kirchos.

South Korea’s Overwatch World Cup Team Is Annihilating Everybody Else With Weird Picks And Wild Plays

As one astute observer on Reddit pointed out, South Korea’s Overwatch World Cup team hasn’t just deviated from the meta; they’ve used nearly every hero in the game. Even Hanzo Going into Blizzard’s big, multi-national bash, South Korea was a heavy favorite, but I’m not sure anybody expected them to clean up to this degree.…

Kim “Geguri” Se-yeon, a teen girl Overwatch phenom, will be the first female pro gamer to compete in OGN Overwatch APEX. ROX Orcas has signed her, according to ESPN. Geguri fans will recall that her haters wrongfully accused her of cheating at last year’s Nexus Cup. She didn’t cheat; she’s just that good.

All These Ultimates Aren’t Enough To Stop South Korea’s Overwatch Team

An onslaught of ultimates, rebuffed by a lineup featuring some of South Korea’s best. This weekend’s Overwatch World Cup qualifiers hosts some strong international talent, but South Korea has been dominating their group stage matches so far. It’s little surprise, after last year’s South Korean squad took first in the World Cup in an undefeated…

Rainbow 6 Replay Really Rubs It In

Today on Highlight Reel we have surprise sticky grenades, twitch-controlled kills, rude replays, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Fortnite –I couldn’t resist…

Overwatch Players Are Mourning Roadhog

Roadhog was a lot of things to a lot of people. A friend, a brother, perhaps even a lover. Also, a one-man apocalypse. He really doesn’t want you to forget that. We can all agree, though, that he was taken before his time. Toward the end of June, Overwatch’s resident master of hook-fu and tattoo(s)…

Overwatch’s Summer Games Return Next Week, Adding Ranked Lucioball

Lucioball, aka Rocket League minus cars, but plus Lucio, is coming back to Overwatch on August 8. This time around, though, it’s a little different. The most unexpected change? Competitive Lucioball. There’ll be placement matches, rankings, and all the other trappings you’ve come to associate with hell— I mean, competitive Overwatch. Players will be able…

Reinhardts Have Been Putting A Lot Of Overwatch Players Through Walls Recently 

Don’t you hate it when the other team’s tank uses glitch magic to shove you into a sealed off area? That’s what happened to Reddit user TeaKei while playing on Temple of Anubis. Spotting an easy kill, the opposing Reinhardt player tried to charge TeaKei into the nearby wall only to see them disappear behind…

An In-Depth Look At Overwatch‘s Eichenwalde Map

Strong multiplayer maps in video games create stories. Their construction and design generate emotional reactions from frustrated defeat to jubilant victory. It is not enough to put players in a space and do battle; strong maps shift and contort in unexpected ways. They are not always fair and they are rarely symmetrical, but they’ll create…

I’m Finally Coming Around On Multiplayer Games

I’m a multiplayer game skeptic. The idea of playing against another human both online and in real life usually doesn’t appeal to me at all. Overwatch, Splatoon 2 and Pyre are making me come around on this, kinda. My reactions to these games are all wildly different. I’ve started to categorize it like a game…

In honor of Doomfist going live in Overwatch today, here he is performing the entire cast’s highlight intros, courtesy of GRZ NGT If you’re wondering how that would even work in light of Doomfist’s particular build and the fact that, for example, Bastion is a robot who got rejected from the Transformers for being a…

Overwatch League Players Will Get Health Insurance, At Least $50K A Year

In an interesting turn of events, Blizzard has laid down hard line rules for how Overwatch League teams are expected to treat their players. In a new blog post, Blizzard outlined the stipulations, which franchise heads like New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and New York Mets COO Jeff Wilpon will have to follow. The…

Blizzard announced increased penalties for toxic Overwatch players yesterday, effective immediately. Kotaku has reported that Overwatch’s previous reporting system was toothless, which may have inspired the game’s recent toxicity epidemic. We’re monitoring to see whether Blizzard will take real action

Chris Guyot made this series of animated portraits from Overwatch. This looks like the best kids TV show that never was