Overwatch Season 21 will bring Hero Pools to shake up the metaBlizzard will introduce Hero Pools in Overwatch's Competitive Season 21, meaning that different heroes will become unavailable every week They also provided details on how it will work and how the idea came to be.MARCH 6
Overwatch: Prevention of Ana's teabagging is a bug, soon to be fixedOverwatch's player base has been hit with an unprecedented calamity recently when Ana players could no longer teabag the opponents they put to sleep. Thankfully, this turned out to be a bug and not an intended change since a fix is on the way.FEBRUARY 29
Overwatch's Triple Damage role queue and Mardi Gras event are about to startBlizzard's Jeff Kaplan recently announced that a new experimental role queue would be available soon in Overwatch and it might bring a surprise along. It appears the surprise is Mardi Gras event and both should go live on 25 February 2020.FEBRUARY 25
Overwatch's Triple Damage will make it more chaotic, but more fun tooOverwatch's new Experimental mode is set to shake things up with the Triple Damage composition, i.e. one tank, three damage and two support players, but the game's director Jeff Kaplan's already advising players to not jump the gun based on numbers alone.FEBRUARY 25
Overwatch and Diablo are apparently getting their own showsBlizzard fans have been asking for more media that explores the lore of pretty much all the most popular franchises. Overwatch and Diablo are headed that way with new animated shows, according to a Linkedin slip-up or possible teaser.FEBRUARY 17
Nvidia: Pulling Activision Blizzard's catalogue was simple misunderstanding,You may have heard that Nvidia's Geforce Now streaming service recently pulled the entire Activision Blizzard catalogue from their offer, but it turned out that this was due to a simple misunderstanding between the two companies.FEBRUARY 14
2020 Overwatch League season kicked off with events in North AmericaTen out of twenty Overwatch League teams went head to head in this weekend's events held in New York City and Dallas. The New York Excelsior hosted their rivals at the iconic Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan and the Dallas Fuel hosted theirs at the Arlington Esports Stadium.FEBRUARY 10
Overwatch Developer Update - major changes are coming to the gameOverwatch is getting a slew of reforms in the coming months. A February update will bring the Experimental Card to the live game on all platforms which will let the players test upcoming changes. The Competitive Season 21 will feature a Hero Pool.JANUARY 31
Overwatch League matches postponed in ChinaOverwatch League matches in China have been postponed. As you may have guessed, the reason is the Coronavirus outbreak. The decision is more than likely a precaution to avoid potential health risks and further contamination.JANUARY 30
What Activision Blizzard Google partnership means for Overwatch playersActivision Blizzard announced their partnership with Google recently and spoke about the relationship be good for the players in various ways but the benefits are just tangential. For example, latency changes will be good for viewers and not in-game.JANUARY 27
Overwatch balance hits Orisa with a heavy nerf hammerBlizzard are going to nerf several Overwatch heroes in the next patch, including Reaper, Hanzo, Sigma and Baptiste. However, the star of the show is Orisa who will get suplexed by the balance team in order to let other tanks have some fun too.JANUARY 24
National Health Service England calls for loot box bans by industryNational Health Service (NHS) England's mental health director Claire Murdoch has called on the games industry to ban loot boxes from their products, insisting they're setting children up for addiction further down the line.JANUARY 20