Overwatch 2 News

We’ve got exciting news for Overwatch 2 players as Blizzard just revealed its plans to make unlocking Overwatch 2 heroes a far less tedious affair when Season 10 begins. In fact, you won’t even need to unlock them at all as the studio will be making every hero available to everyone on all game modes. Blizzard broke the exciting news [...]

Overwatch 2 kicked off its highly publicized Cowboy Bebop crossover event with a surprise game mode in tow – the Hero Mastery: Gauntlet. The new game mode pits up to three players against waves of bots in a 10-round tower defense battle with randomized bots, upgrades, and towers. “Hero Mastery: Gauntlet is a new co-op game mode where players work [...]

Overwatch 2 has dropped another nostalgia-inducing trailer ahead of its Cowboy Bebop crossover event later today. That’s two trailers in less than a week, with another one likely locked and loaded for when the event officially begins. The new trailer offers a better look at the four event-exclusive Cowboy Bebop-inspired skins featured in the previous trailer as well as the [...]

Blizzard Entertainment has put a date to the Overwatch 2 x Cowboy Bebop crossover event that it teased last month. The event goes live on March 12 and will feature exclusive skins inspired by the classic bounty-hunting anime series. For those who aren’t familiar with Cowboy Bebop, it’s futuristic space Western Japanese anime series that first came out in 1998. [...]

Despite the controversy surrounding Overwatch 2 Season 9’s major gameplay changes, players seem to be really digging it, at least according to game director Aaron Keller. In his latest letter to the community, Keller reports an increase in interest in competitive matches compared to previous seasons. According to Keller, players are now spending 45% of their time in Competitive Mode [...]

Overwatch 2 is cooking up another major anime collaboration featuring the classic 90s space western animated series Cowboy Bebop. Blizzard hasn’t officially announced the crossover event just yet, but we do know that it’s coming at some point during Season 9 thanks to a teaser at the end of the season trailer. The clip shows Overwatch 2’s resident cowboy, Cassidy, [...]

Overwatch 2 will be receiving a huge game-changing update when Season 9 begins next week. The update will not only throw a gigantic wrench into the current meta but will drastically change the overall combat dynamics. Apart from the addition of the highly criticized self-healing abilities, Season 9 will also buff the health pool of all 39 heroes in the [...]

Overwatch 2 is returning to the esports scene after Blizzard Entertainment announced the end of its long-running Overwatch League a few days before Christmas. The studio has now partnered with Saudi Arabian video game and esports company Savvy Game Group to usher in the next chapter of the hero shooter’s professional tournament series. The new Overwatch Championship Series is a [...]

Blizzard Entertainment’s recent announcement that it will be adding passive healing skills for tank and DPS heroes in Overwatch 2 hasn’t gone over well with the hero shooter’s community. Game director Aaron Keller now admits that it was a “mistake” to reveal the change without the context of the other changes coming in Season 9. According to the original dev [...]