‘Valorant’ is harvesting talent from stagnating esports

Posted on 29/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Yesterday, the reigning MVP of Overwatch esports, Jay “sinatraa” Won, confirmed rumors and announced he was leaving his $150,000-a-year deal with San Francisco Shock for a pro career in Riot Games’ new first-person-shooter Valorant. It’s a huge deal...

The reigning Overwatch League MVP is switching to ‘Valorant’

Posted on 29/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

For Blizzard and Overwatch, a professional esports league has always been a huge part of its strategy, and now other games are competing for the talent it’s developing. League of Legends maker Riot Games is currently developing its own competitive sh...

Overwatch League tries to boost interest with May Madness tournament

Posted on 27/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The Overwatch League will switch to a tournament format for May with prize money and season playoff seeding implications at stake. The seven Asia-based teams (the Chinese and Korean teams, along with the all-Korean London Spitfire and New York Excels...

Overwatch’s new hero Echo arrives April 14th

Posted on 09/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

If you’re an Overwatch fan, you’ll want to mark April 14th on your calendar. That’s when Echo, the game’s 32nd hero, will join its official roster pool. Following the flight plan.Echo swoops into Overwatch on April 14! pic.twitter.com/BWO8W6ivDO— O...

Social distancing is pushing esports into the mainstream

Posted on 01/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Industries around the globe have ground to a halt amid the coronavirus pandemic. Bars, restaurants, stadiums and factories have shuttered, and entire countries are on lockdown as citizens are ordered to stay home for weeks at a time in an attempt to...

The entire Overwatch League regular season will be online-only

Posted on 31/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The Overwatch League has canceled all of its live events for the remainder of the 2020 regular season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Matches will take place in an entirely online format until August at the very least.

The latest ‘Overwatch’ hero can transform into enemy characters

Posted on 19/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Echo, the latest Overwatch hero, is joining the ranks of the game's damage dealers with some nifty-sounding abilities. The AI robot's ultimate in particular will give players plenty of new scope for creativity -- when they activate Duplicate, Echo ca...

The next ‘Overwatch’ hero is an AI robot with an important story link

Posted on 18/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Overwatch's newest hero is Echo. Fans have been waiting a while for Blizzard to add a new playable character to the game. It's been seven months since the company introduced Sigma, the game's 31st hero. The anticipation for Echo has been building lon...

‘Overwatch’ will finally address some old problems with Quick Play

Posted on 18/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

While we'll have to wait for Overwatch 2 before Blizzard delivers new characters or big new missions, that doesn't mean developers are done with the first game. Dexerto points out forum posts by lead developer Jeff Kaplan that mention the team will f...

Overwatch League sets its new online-only schedule for spring

Posted on 17/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

After three sets of Overwatch League cancellations due to the coronavirus outbreak, Blizzard is trying to make the best of a bad situation. The company has released the updated Overwatch League March and April schedule. And as you can imagine, it eli...

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