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The Junker Queen is a character who first appears in a small role in the 2016 video game Overwatch, a Blizzard Entertainment–developed first-person shooter.Designed by Arnold Tsang, she was introduced as a background character in a 2017 update for Overwatch to help establish the game's "Junkertown" setting, she serves as its ruler.
Blizzard added new characters, maps, and game modes post-release, all free of charge, with the only additional cost to players being optional loot boxes to purchase cosmetic items. Overwatch is Blizzard's fourth major franchise and came about following the 2014 cancellation of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Titan.
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.
Blizzard World: The map, introduced in January 2018, is set in a fictional theme park that is a tribute to other Blizzard properties, including World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, and StarCraft. [46] Eichenwalde: Taking place in the ruins of a German castle, Eichenwalde was the first new map added to Overwatch following its release, in August 2016 ...
Sombra was the second new character to be added to Overwatch after launch, and was introduced formally during the November 2016 BlizzCon event. However, she had been designed and tested internally well before the game's launch, and Blizzard had established an alternate reality game that began within Overwatch ' s open beta in 2016 that teased ...
Last week, the Overwatch team released a new map: Blizzard World. The multiplayer arena is a colorful amusement park filled with attractions and rides themed after Blizzard's stable of games.
[28] Afterwards, other characters and map elements from Overwatch were incorporated into Heroes. By the time the game transitioned to a maintenance mode in July 2022, [ 29 ] a total of nine characters became playable in Heroes of the Storm , [ note 4 ] while battlegrounds based on the Overwatch maps Hanamura and Volskaya Industries were also ...
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