Overwatch Players Will Get To Keep All Of Their Progress In Overwatch 2 With One Caveat

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Now that we’re just a month away from Overwatch 2’s official launch, there’s one little step that players will need to complete if they want to keep all their progress from the original game. This applies to console players and those with accounts on multiple platforms. If you’ve been playing exclusively on PC, then you’re all set and can move [...]

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Blizzard Reveals Details Of Upcoming Overwatch Anniversary Remix Event

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Blizzard Entertainment outlines how Overwatch’s upcoming anniversary event will be different from previous years. For starters, it’s called the Anniversary Remix (cue scratching and backspin effects here) which means that we’ll be getting the same anniversary content with a few twists to breathe new life into the event. “Like standard Anniversary events, Remix events will throw open the vault doors, [...]

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Blizzard Entertainment Will Be Renaming Other Characters Amid Sexual Harassment Scandal

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Earlier this week, Blizzard Entertainment announced that they were renaming the Overwatch character McCree after the employee that the character was named after, Jesse McCree, was fired from the company as part of Activision Blizzard’s efforts to clean house amid the sexual harassment and discrimination scandal that’s gripping the company. In addition to requiring extra man hours to roll out [...]

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Overwatch Team Renaming McCree

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The Overwatch team announced today that Jesse McCree's name will be changed in the near future. This move comes after the company faces backlash from players after the sexual harassment allegations within the company with Jesse McCree's name being derived from a developer at Blizzard who was allegedly involved in such activity. Official Statement: The vast majority of players were [...]

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US Department Of Justice Investigates Activision Blizzard For Limiting Overwatch League Team Earnings

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Activision Blizzard is once again in hot water following a year of layoffs and controversies surrounding the inflated salaries of its executives. The US Department of Justice’s antitrust division is currently investigating the company for allegedly putting limits on how much Overwatch League teams can earn in a given season. According to Dot Esports, Activision Blizzard enforces a “secret soft [...]

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Overwatch Announces New Hero ‘Echo’ Along With Her Origin Story Video

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A new hero is coming to Overwatch in the form of a sleek “evolutionary robot” called Echo. Echo was one of the “next six heroes” that Jeff Kaplan teased in an interview with Eurogamer back in 2018. She also made an appearance in the “Reunion” animated short starring Ashe and McCree. Today, Blizzard Entertainment has officially unveiled Echo’s origin story [...]

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All Overwatch League Events In March And April Have Been Cancelled Due To COVID-19 Coronavirus

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In today’s COVID-19 related news, Activision Blizzard has announced the cancellation of all Overwatch League events running from March to April as a precaution against the deadly coronavirus outbreak, which has just been classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. “The health and safety of employees, fans, players, teams, and partners is paramount to Activision Blizzard Esports,” tweeted [...]

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