Get ‘Overwatch’ for $12 as part of Humble Bundle’s October subscription

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Another month, another bundle of awesome games thanks to Humble Bundle. The monthly subscription costs just $12 and offers over $100 worth of games to downloa…

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Overwatch ‘Pink Mercy’ sale raises $12M for breast cancer research

It can be hard sometimes to grok the scale of the gaming community, but the occasional charity event not only demonstrates the hugeness of the industry but also its diversity and willingness to shell out for a good cause. Today Blizzard announced that an Overwatch charity campaign raised an impressive $12.7 million for breast cancer research in just two weeks.

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An Overwatch hacker in South Korea just got sentenced to a year in prison

A 28-year-old man in South Korea faces a year in prison for hacking Overwatch . The sentence, reported by South Korea’s SBS News and Dot Esports, handed the hacker one year in prison and two years of probation for illicit activity related to the hit online multiplayer game. The particularly steep sentence is a result […]

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‘Overwatch’s second anniversary by the numbers

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We’re two years into the life of Overwatch and the folks at Blizzard Entertainment celebrated by putting out some fun numbers to show just how much the game has changed and how much time people have put into it since it launched.

Along with an infographic, a couple of Overwatch developers shared in a round table Q&A what fans can expect — or rather not expect — from the game in the future.

In a tidy infographic, Blizzard showed how much work has gone into its beloved first-person competitive game and shared some fun facts and figures about how much players have contributed. Take a look: Read more…

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Esports Overwatch League heads to hipster Brooklyn for its finals

What could be more perfect than moving the inaugural championship finals for an eSports league from its Los Angeles home to Brooklyn? For Overwatch League, the esports conference created by fiat from Activision Blizzard, the move is the first step in its plans for housing esports teams in cities around the country. Heading from sunny […]

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