Microsoft is set to acquire Activision Blizzard in a deal worth nearly $70 billion, though the acquisition isn’t expected to close until Microsoft’s fiscal year 2023, which begins in July. While the PVP element will be available October 4, we still don’t know when the PVE portion will be available. The company has split the development of the PVP and PVE parts of the game. It’s been a year since a new hero - Echo - was added into the game, and most fans attributed this dry spell to Overwatch 2’s impending release.But now that Overwatch 2 isn’t coming out anytime soon, the original game needs a new hero to keep current players interested. The company plans to share more about Overwatch 2 in a “reveal event” livestream that takes place in just a few days - you can watch it on June 16th at 1PM ET.īlizzard first announced Overwatch 2 in 2019, but it really only began showing the game in earnest over the past few months, including with a closed beta. Overwatch gets fairly regular updates, but the last major content drop came in 2020. “This is the beginning of an always-on and always-evolving era for the franchise, and a recommitment to serving players with frequent and substantial updates planned well into the future to keep Overwatch 2 fresh and fun for many years to come.”īlizzard also introduced the second new hero for Overwatch 2, Junker Queen, which the company describes as “a high-mobility and railgun-wielding former Overwatch captain with cybernetic capabilities.” “We can’t wait to roll out the beginning of the Overwatch 2 experience on October 4 and introduce an exciting new competitive vision, featuring amazing new content and a reimagining of the iconic heroes, maps, and gameplay that made the original game so compelling,” Mike Ybarra, president of Blizzard, said in a press release.
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It will be releasing on PC, Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch.
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And in a major change, it will be free to play - the original Overwatch was a paid title. Overwatch 2 is scheduled to release on October 4th, so expect to see plenty of changes for Mercy, Moira, and others present in the game at that point.
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Overwatch 2 will be launching “in early access” on October 4th, Activision Blizzard announced Sunday.