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The newly-rebranded Overwatch conscionable benefited from its champion play subordinate number "in implicit a year" crossed each platforms, developer Blizzard has said, arsenic the game's caller Season 1 officially goes unrecorded today.
Players person flocked backmost to Overwatch pursuing past week's large Spotlight uncover lawsuit that confirmed the sequel was ditching its "2", adding a big of caller heroes, and telling a caller interconnected communicative implicit the adjacent year.
An aboriginal entree motorboat for caller leader Anran besides helped gully players in, portion the institution has rapidly addressed calls from fans and the game's English-language dependable histrion for tweaks to the character's design.
As reported earlier this week, Overwatch had a peculiarly beardown play connected Steam — wherever the crippled recorded its champion subordinate number since launch. Last week's announcements continued with confirmation of an upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 larboard of the game, scheduled for merchandise sometime wrong its caller Season 2.
Here's everything that's unrecorded today, alongside the motorboat of Season 1:
Overwatch Season 1 — February 10
● Five New Heroes astatine Launch: Jump successful to acquisition 5 caller heroes right now, with 5 much coming passim 2026 (one per season).
○ Domina (Tank), a long-range, zone-control Stalwart Tank leader and vice president of the Vishkar Corporation.
○ Emre (Damage), a fast-paced, run-and-gun Specialist Damage leader with cybernetic upgrades.
○ Mizuki (Support), a versatile Survivor Support leader aligned with the Hashimoto clan.
○ Anran (Damage), a fire-wielding Flanker Damage hero, Overwatch recruit, and Wuyang’s older sister.
○ Jetpack Cat (Support), a permanently flying feline, acting arsenic a Tactician Support leader with speedy reflexes and Hero towing abilities
● The Reign of Talon: For the archetypal time, Overwatch is telling a afloat connected communicative crossed an full year, pursuing Talon’s emergence nether caller leadership. Follow on connected this caller communicative with our latest cinematic, arsenic good arsenic ongoing question comics, animated Hero trailers, abbreviated stories, and more.
● Conquest Meta Event: Conquest is simply a five-week faction-based lawsuit wherever players align with Overwatch oregon Talon, completing missions and earning rewards on the way.
● Gameplay, Competitive, and Systems Updates: Season 1 includes caller relation sub-roles and passives for each Heroes, a competitory twelvemonth reset with rewards and rarity titles, Stadium updates, a afloat UI/UX refresh, and caller systems similar Praise.
● The Overwatch x Hello Kitty and Friends collaboration is disposable now, introducing colorful, Hello Kitty and Friends-inspired skins positive themed extras similar sanction cards, sprays, emotes, and more. Available present done February 24, the crossover introduces skins for…
○ Juno arsenic Hello Kitty
○ Widowmaker arsenic Kuromi
○ Mercy arsenic Pompompurrin
○ Lucio arsenic Keroppi
○ D.Va arsenic My Melody
○ Kiriko arsenic Cinnamoroll
● Skins and Cosmetics: Season 1 includes faction-themed skins, caller themed bundles, a Mercy Celestial Guardian Mythic, Juno’s Star Shooter Mythic Weapon, and a Lootbox excavation refresh including skins from the past six seasons.
After each that, Overwatch's caller Season 2 volition present a caller hero, mythics and a solemnisation of the game's 10-year day aboriginal this spring. Another leader joins successful Season 3, owed this summer, alongside the Japan Night representation and much mythics. Later this summer, Season 4 drops yet different caller leader and includes enactment tied to BlizzCon and the Overwatch World Cup.
Catch up with everything other announced past week astatine Blizzard's Overwatch Spotlight lawsuit close here.
Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
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