Overwatch

When An Entrance In Overwatch Goes Wrong

Poor Zenyatta. He had a whole match ahead of him, but Roadhog said no. Never meditate right in front of the entrance. via standardissue

Overwatch Player Makes A Terrible Mistake

Today on Highlight Reel we have Overwatch highlights, easy Dark Souls invasions, Boneitis, sad rebels and much more! Watch the video above or on our Youtube Page, 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 Dark Souls 3…

Overwatch Player Obliterates Enemy With Basketball Trap

If you’ve been playing Overwatch’s beta, you’re probably familiar with basketballs in starter areas. Usually people just shoot at them until the match starts, and then they’re left behind, forlorn and forgotten. A couple players, though, figured out how to weaponize them. Puppy :U and his cohort realized that you can attach Junkrat’s steel trap and…

Watch Us Play The Overwatch Beta

We’re having some fun in the Overwatch beta for Ps4 over on Facebook. Check it out here.

Thanks. I don’t usually use sprays in multiplayer shooters, but now, thanks to Overwatch player kharnna, I finally understand the appeal. Here’s the full clip:

Some Great Plays From Overwatch‘s Open Beta

Overwatch’s open beta has been running for a day, and even then, this is only the early access portion of the show. Still, there’s been an unusually high concentration of excellent moments. First, here’s Harumiura with a textbook example of how to use Reinhardt. Set ‘em up, knock ‘em down. Really, really far down: Next,…

Overwatch Won’t Launch With Competitive Mode

Toward the end of its closed beta, Overwatch got an update that included ranked play and seasons. For some, it was the final piece of the puzzle, the competitive aspect that’d keep them coming back. Blizzard, however, is revamping it. Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan explained in a forum post: “We worked extremely hard to…

One Overwatch Character Has Been Around For More Than A Decade

Overwatch was announced at BlizzCon in 2014. It rose from the ashes of a longtime Blizzard MMO project called Titan, which had been in development for years and years only to meet the reaping scythe of cancellation. But Overwatch character Soldier 76 even predates that. Soldier 76 is Overwatch’s trusty Shoot Man. He’s a gruff…

Overwatch Ford F650 Supertruck Hits A Car At PAX East

Blizzard’s cross-promotion between Overwatch and Uber for PAX East ran into problems last night, when Soldier: 76’s Ford F650 Supertruck took out the side of a passenger vehicle. Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford was on the scene. Of all the people to stumble upon an Overwatch car accident. Randy Pitchford was exiting the main theater of…

Overwatch Player Is A Wall Riding Fiend

Rollerblading healer hero Lucio is one of my favorite characters to play in Overwatch. The simple act of skating around feels great, especially when you’re riding walls like gravity’s just another rail ripe for grinding. This guy, though, he’s turned it into an art form. Jamie Allegro sticks to walls like goddamn Spider-Man. Watch him…

A valiant Overwatch sacrifice. In this clip from silvert0rch, a Reinhardt player valiantly takes one for the team by charging a self-destructing D.Va mech and shoving it away from his allies. I will name the hammer in the toolbox under my kitchen sink after you, brave sir. Here’s the full thing:

Turns Out, You Can Counter Hanzo’s Ultimate In Overwatch

Overwatch is a game about interplay between many different heroes, some of whom represent entirely different subgenres of FPS. Despite the potential for unbalanced chaos, it all clicks. The reason? Details like this one. I’ve logged quite a few hours in Overwatch’s closed beta at this point, and until today, even I didn’t know about…

The Overwatch Beta Ends Next Week

Overwatch’s closed beta has been quite a ride. Between changes for the better, clever player strategies, and butts, it’s gotten everybody talking (or making entire games about how they’re missing out) on multiple occasions. Next week, it’s coming to a close. Blizzard just announced that Overwatch’s long-running closed beta will conclude on April 25. The…

Overwatch‘s Silliest New Strategy: Kill Rooms

Whether you’re an itsy bitsy baby Overwatch player or that Junkrat who keeps using his exploding tire to hunt me and only me (I WILL FIND YOUR HOME), you’ll fare about the same against a room plastered with death lasers: poorly. Popular Team Fortress 2 YouTuber Muselk has been branching out into Overwatch’s beta recently,…

That’s One Way To Play Overwatch

Blizzard’s shooter isn’t even out, yet some folks already found ways to play the game absolutely unintended ways. Instead of chasing each other on the map, these players have set up a silly orb deflecting mini-game. It’s a reminder of Team Fortress 2 days and Pyro Airblasts. Symmetra is firing her orb to the ninja…

Oh Man, This Overwatch Cosplay

Meet Korean coplay star Tasha, who as you’re about to see is straight up killing it as Overwatch’s Tracer We’ve featured her work many times on Kotaku previously, and with good reason: she’s one of the world’s best, and this Tracer is no exception. In keeping with the fact that this entire character’s personality and…

New Overwatch Update Adds Ranked Play, Seasons

The latest Overwatch update didn’t just give Tracer a different, slightly more in-character butt pose; it also gave players a reason to fight until they can’t fight anymore (that isn’t butts). I speak, of course, about competitive play. Now, if you so choose, you can play Overwatch’s beta to rank up throughout monthly seasons and…

Blizzcon 2016 is taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center in California on November 4 and 5. The $199 tickets will be sold in two batches on April 20 and 23. If you get one, you’re made of magic.

Overwatch Replaces Butt Pose With Strut Pose

Having decided to alter a victory pose in Overwatch following fan feedback, Blizzard have seemingly gone ahead and implemented the change. Users are reporting there’s a new pose in the game replacing it, and here’s what it looks like. For reference, here’s the old one: Via SteveO409 @ NeoGAF, here’s the new pose: Now that…

To Explain Netcode Properly, You Need Props

Sometimes discussions on forums can get a little out of hand. Fans are pretty good at going down the rabbit hole. Sometimes it goes into full-blown conspiracy theories. In this instance yes, you the fans, were right. You’ve worked out how Overwatch’s netcode works, and that’s made the programmers happy to talk about it in…