Overwatch

Why Overwatch Fans Are Obsessed With ‘Shipping’ Its Female Characters

Since release, Overwatch has spawned reams of fan-created content, which is unusual for a game that has no single-player story mode. A sizable portion of this content centers specifically around the women characters, who are, in the fandom’s eyes, all totally dating and kissing each other. Slash, as this is known in fandom circles, has…

When One Piece Meets Overwatch In Fan Art

What happens when you mix Overwatch with One Piece? Cool fan art, it seems. Twenty-seven year-old Korean artist Han Suk Bum, who is based in Daejeon and who is incredibly talented, mashed up One Piece with Overwatch to terrific effect. In an interview on Insight (via tipster Sang), the aspiring comic book artist says he’s…

Overwatch‘s Best Brawl Is Back

Most of Overwatch’s Weekly Brawl alternative modes are not very good. Arcade is. Arcade was actually the first-ever official Weekly Brawl, and now, months later, it’s getting a second go at the spotlight. If you’re a lapsed, bored, or frustrated Overwatch player, I highly recommend that you hop in and give it a try. It’s…

Enjoy The Worst Overwatch Cosplay

This proud team of budget cosplayers aren’t going to let time and money get in the way of awesome Overwatch cosplay. With the help of ThatGuyYouKnowwwand The Will Box, these guys—wearing recycled cardboard boxes, pieces of paper, tanktops and pieces of old Destiny cosplay—bring Overwatch’s Play of the Game animations to life in a way…

Oversnatch: The Kotaku Review

Brazzers’ porn parody of Overwatch, titled Oversnatch, starts strong, but by the end it’s sweaty, spent, and sagging. Warning: this post is NSFW. Oversnatch begins promisingly, in an abandoned theater that almost doesn’t look like a porn studio. Widowmaker lurks, and Reaper skulks. Widowmaker (played by Aletta Ocean) is introduced with Overwatch-style text displaying her…

Overwatch’s Zarya Translates Nicely Into Heroes Of The Storm

The great thing about bringing Overwatch characters into Heroes of the Storm is that their shooter skills are perfect for Blizzard’s MOBA. Zarya’s damage absorption and gravity manipulation skills make her a pink-haired point-and-click powerhouse. Absorbing attacks to up her own is Zarya’s thing, kind of like Bishop from the X-Men, only with a gravity…

Overwatch characters, re-imagined as off-brand Halloween costumes. Artist Nina Matsumoto has been drawing characters like Tracer, Genji, and Reaper in the grand tradition of costume manufacturers trying to get around copyright laws. Who doesn’t love characters like “Futuristic Tea Time Cop” and “Blue Balls Zen Lover”?

Winston has one cool trick for protecting his team against Dva’s exploding mech. In a feat of extraordinary bravery, /u/VaporTsunami discovered that Winston’s barrier can contain the blast.

The Triple Tank Strategy Is Taking Over Competitive Overwatch

The meta of a competitive game is a curious thing. As balance and tactics evolve, so do the prescribed best practices for coming out on top no matter what your foes (and the greatest foe of all, life) throw at you. That’s natural. It keeps the game interesting. When one strategy becomes too dominant, however,…

That’s a lot of D.Va. Blizzard recently gave Overwatch’s D.Va an in-game stream overlay for her sitting emote, which GraphicFeedback recreated for their friend, streamer Hanaday. The result? D.Va streaming D.Va, who is, in turn, also streaming. Perhaps we’re all being streamed by larger, realer versions of ourselves. A chilling thought.

Bastion Wins Cosplay Of The Game

Rather than cosplay as one of Overwatch’s human characters, Mathozwent for something a bit harder: the big blocky robot thing that also transforms into a gun. I’ve seen Bastion cosplay before, but it often suffers from being weirdly out of proportion, since the original design doesn’t exactly suit itself to the human body. Not here:…

Overwatch Pro Rips Through The Other Team As Tracer

Tracer is probably one of Overwatch’s most fun heroes to play. The way she can manipulate time and zip around maps, darting behind enemy lines and catching the other team off-guard, is a perfect example of what makes Blizzard’s game a different kind of competitive shooter. Kevin “AZK” Larivière demonstrated this perfectly in Team Liquid’s…

The Weekend In Esports: Smash Bros. And Cruise Ships

It’s finally fall, and as if there weren’t already enough games coming out to play, there’s plenty of big things going on in competitive gaming to watch. This weekend, Europe will crown a Hearthstone champion to send to BlizzCon later this season, and a slew of Chinese Dota 2 teams will compete to see who…

Overwatch Test Patch Adds Tons Of New Voice Lines

Yesterday, Overwatch’s public test server got an update that added new spectator options and tweaked the balance of Ana, Widowmaker, and Junkrat in ways that may or may not make it into the regular game. But that’s not all. Overwatch players have spent the past 24 hours digging up heaps of new voice lines for…

Paladins’ Developers Deny Cloning Overwatch

Paladins, a video game that looks very much like Overwatch, has taken some heat for its similarities to Blizzard’s popular team shooter—to the point where last night one of Paladins’ top developers felt compelled to write a big ol’ Reddit post explaining how it isn’t a clone at all. In the Reddit post, Hi-Rez Studios…

Have Mercy, Overwatch Cosplay

While there is no shortage of folks cosplaying as Mercy’s default outfit, Hanehere has opted for her more devilish appearance, and done one…hell of a job. Sorry.

Overwatch Player Pulls Off Fantastic Deadeye

Today on Highlight Reel we have For Honor brutality, McCree plays, “stealth” kills, fouls, 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! Deus Ex: Mankind…

Someone Is Making A Game Where You Can Romance Overwatch Characters

If Overwatch fan culture is anything to go by, there’s only one thing people want to see Overwatch characters do more than fight: date. That’s where fan games come in. But with lawyers hiding in bushes and trees, waiting to spring their DMCA traps, making video game characters kiss ain’t easy. Loverwatch is one of…

Overwatch Players Are Terrified Of Getting Powered Up By Ana

You’re playing Overwatch, and the match is going well, all things considered. You’ve got a ten-elimination streak going, and your team just reached the second checkpoint with time to spare. But then you hear the words. The doom words. “You’re powered up! Get in there.” Fuck. Beloved sniper mom Ana’s ult gives any single ally…

Overwatch Player Uses Actual Turntable To Control Lucio

Video games have a long and sordid history of using various objects as controllers: guns, peripherals shaped like penises, and hell, even fruit. So it’s only natural that some of the weirder ones be put to more sensible use. That’s what YouTuber Whybeare did a couple weeks ago when he tried to play Overwatch’s Lucio…