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The sequel Overwatch 2 was released in October 2022, and will continue the seasonal events. According to Kaplan, while the game will be a sequel, they want to allow all content from the first Overwatch to be brought forward into Overwatch 2, requiring them to slow down new content development for the original game, particularly new heroes and maps.
Overwatch has its development origins rooted in Titan, a Blizzard project that was cancelled in 2013. [10] Elements of Titan were reworked into Overwatch, which was announced at BlizzCon in November 2014. [9] [10] Overwatch became Blizzard's first new series since they launched Diablo in 1996, as well as their first attempt at making an FPS ...
The Overwatch League was owned by Blizzard Entertainment and run by Major League Gaming, which is also owned by Blizzard's parent company Activision Blizzard. [1] The Overwatch League played out similar to most North American professional sports leagues, in which all teams played scheduled games against other teams to vie for position in the season's playoffs, rather than the approach of team ...
Overwatch (retroactively referred to as Overwatch 1 [b]) was a 2016 multiplayer first-person shooter video game by Blizzard Entertainment. The game was first released for PlayStation 4 , Windows , and Xbox One in May 2016 and Nintendo Switch in October 2019, with cross-platform play supported across all platforms.
Overwatch 2 is a hero shooter, where players are split into two teams and select a "hero" from a roster of over 40 characters.Characters are organized into a "damage" class, responsible for offensive efforts; a "support" class, responsible for healing and buffing; and a "tank" class, responsible for creating space for their team.
Overwatch originally featured 12 characters at its November 2014 BlizzCon convention announcement, [6] but expanded to 21 by the next year's convention. [7] The game is character-driven, and reviewers noted Overwatch 's emphasis on the individual differences between characters in the same role (e.g., between two snipers) as a departure from dominant class-based shooter paradigms.
Prior to the launch of the 2021 Overwatch League season, a new skin for Mei was released based on a mixed martial arts (MMA) outfit, named "MM-Mei". The skin gave Mei cornrows , a hairstyle common to people of African descent, but also had been used by MMA Chinese fighter Zhang Weili .
The 2020 season onwards replaced the stage playoffs with midseason tournaments. Every team has qualified for at least one midseason tournament. The Shanghai Dragons have the most midseason tournament titles (5), the most played matches (22), won the most matches (17), and logged the most maps wins (64).