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'Legally distinct Cammy': Overwatch revealed its newest hero and fans are saying she looks awfully familiar

Now Overwatch has an Omnic with a real bird and a human with an Omnic bird.

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Former Overwatch lead Jeff Kaplan has "over 5,000 hours" in Rust and calls it "the pinnacle of PvP games," but his own survival game takes cues from World of Warcraft

"The game that we're making is not like Rust in many ways"

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Overwatch is already teasing its latest new hero, and she arrives in just a few short weeks

It's already that time.

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Overwatch: Undivided is the latest way Blizzard is investing into storytelling outside of the game with new content partnership

The lore-building continues.

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Overwatch reveals that only 32% of players stayed loyal to Winston until the end: 'You are not to be trusted'

Snakes don't hiss, they switch sides during the Conquest event.

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Former Overwatch lead Jeff Kaplan says he wants to put "Rust-like mechanics" in his new survival game "someday," but for now base-building is more like "Valheim and Subnautica"

"The building is more focused on utility, progression, aesthetics, and customization, rather than defending your stuff"

GamesRadar

Overwatch creator tries showing off his new Rust-like open-world game but finds fellow dev stuck in a T-pose instead: "Don't show that on stream!"

"Look at the beautiful full moon"

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Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan says Breath of the Wild is "the greatest game ever made" – "How can Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time exist and somebody make an even better Zelda game?"

"There are so many things that that game gets right, that other games are lucky if they get one of those things right"

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Best crosshair for Jetpack Cat in Overwatch

Crosshair sorted for the Cat.

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Best crosshair for Emre in Overwatch

Burst your targets down.

Dot Esports

Best crosshair for Domina in Overwatch

Every setting you might need to consider.

Dot Esports

Overwatch was originally called "Monetized Shooter" because you had to buy each of its heroes, says co-creator Jeff Kaplan: "F***ing terrible, but at the time, I actually thought that was a good idea"

Anyone up for a round of Monetized Shooter?

GamesRadar

New open world, action-survival shooter from the creator of Overwatch gets its first public Steam playtest next week

"The playtest itself will be very small, so that means that not everyone who signs up will be invited to play"

GamesRadar

Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan's new open-world FPS probably won't be free-to-play because "you need 8 billion players and 2 thousand devs cranking out f***ing keychains like a sweatshop"

"It's like this crazy idea that hasn't been seen in the past ten years, maybe I could play the game to get sh*t"

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Best crosshair for Anran in Overwatch

Best crosshairs for the Flanker.

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Overwatch players prove that there's still some good left in them as Winston and co triumph over Talon in the seasonal Conquest event

How embarrassing!

PC Gamer

Overwatch director says addressing the 5v5 versus 6v6 debates late 'cost us trust': 'We should have listened sooner'

Aaron Keller reflected on Overwatch 2's live service development during a recent talk at GDC.

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World of Warcraft would've been a first-person MMO in the EverQuest-inspired world of Overwatch's Jeff Kaplan: "I argued a lot for that"

Blizzard's MMO could've looked quite different

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Marvel Rivals made Blizzard ask 'what if we could just drop 30 new heroes into Overwatch?' and inspired its biggest update ever

The competing hero shooter "definitely had an impact" on Blizzard.

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"What if we could just drop 30 new heroes into Overwatch?": Marvel Rivals "definitely had an impact" on Blizzard, says Overwatch boss, and a big factor was the response to new heroes

"What would player reaction to that be?"

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Overwatch director celebrates no longer being "the lowest-rated game on Steam," but admits he's "not sure what it would take for us to move up to a positive score at this point"

"We're only a few percentage points away from 'mixed'"

Dot Esports

All Overwatch ranks in order

Which way is up?

PC Gamer

'It was supposed to be the greatest time ever': Jeff Kaplan only got 6 weeks to come up with and pitch Overwatch: 'We were probably the most demoralised we'd ever been'

Overwatch beat out an intergalactic RPG and a StarCraft MMO.

Dot Esports

‘We’re done here’: Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan explains sudden departure from Blizzard

The iconic developer behind Overwatch and World of Warcraft went in-depth on his abrupt exit from Blizzard in 2021.

PC Gamer

Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan's favorite hero is Reinhardt, and reveals his charge was inspired by Left 4 Dead 2: 'It's what separates a great Rein from a sh*tty one'

Kaplan says he prefers simple hero designs above all.

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