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August 9, 2022
Cheers to six years of worldwide payload-pushing, high-intensity battlefield brawls, and a fight for the future that’s just beginning. To celebrate the final installment of this three-part event series, we’re unlocking the skin vault and bringing back even more gear you might have missed out on–with an exclusive twist. Flex on your foes in style with limited looks like Tagged Tracer, Varsity D.Va, Genjiman Genji, and more.
Earn and purchase Anniversary Loot Boxes throughout the event! Each Loot Box has a chance to contain items from past Anniversary and seasonal events; don’t wait too long to snag those skins you’ve been eyeing for the past year, though– Loot Boxes will no longer be available for sale after the end of the Anniversary Remix Vol. 3 event on August 30 . However, you will still be able to earn standard loot boxes after the end of the event.*
* Loot Boxes will open automatically before the launch of Overwatch 2. After September 14, 2022, all remaining unopened Loot Boxes will automatically open upon login and all items contained within will be added to your account.
As part of the celebration, we’re unlocking season-exclusive brawls, giving you the chance to dive back into your favorite modes from previous seasonal events. Want to know what days your favorite brawls will be back? Check out the schedule below (regional times may vary).
Overwatch Archives Missions will be available to play in the Arcade on August 9, 16, 23, and 30 .
Overwatch Archives Challenge Missions
Overwatch Archives Challenge Missions will be available to play in the Arcade on August 10, 17, and 24 .
Summer Games brawls will be available to play in the Arcade on August 11, 18, and 25 .
Halloween Terror brawls will be available to play in the Arcade on August 12, 19, and 26 .
Halloween Terror Challenge Missions
Halloween Terror Challenge Mission brawls will be available to play in the Arcade on August 13, 20, and 27 .
Test your mettle with a spin on Junkenstein’s Revenge: Challenge Missions.
Winter Wonderland brawls will be available to play in the Arcade on August 14, 21, and 28 .
Lunar New Year brawls will be available to play in the Arcade on August 15, 22, and 29 .
Along with fan-favorite Legendary skins, we’re bringing back a select few exclusive skins from past Overwatch Challenge events. Miss out on snagging these the first time around? Now’s your chance to add them to your collection. Play games in Quick Play, Competitive Play, or the Arcade to unlock sprays, player icons, and stylish skins like Comic Book Tracer, Marammat Symmetra, and Kyōgisha Hanzo. Wins count as two games. Each week brings new rewards to earn!
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All the details on Overwatch 2's new 5v5 multiplayer, new heroes, and more.
Overwatch 2 is finally a real game that people have played. Sort of. While the sequel's PvE mode has been banished into the future, we've had the opportunity to play the hero shooter's revamped PvP multiplayer in Blizzard's first two betas. So far, it sure feels a lot like Overwatch.
The pieces of the Overwatch 2 puzzle are finally starting to fit together, with the sequel beginning to seem like more of a free-to-play seasonal revamp. At the same time, it's undergoing some fundamental changes and bringing along plenty of new heroes, maps, and modes besides. And, someday, those long-absent PvE missions.
Here's everything we’ve learned so far about Overwatch 2.
Overwatch 2 enters early access on October 4, 2022 , as announced during the Xbox Showcase in June 2022, and will be free to play. Importantly, that's PvP only, not PvE, which will presumably get its own date later.
Blizzard just wrapped up its second PvP beta in July. It's still unclear if there will be another beta before Overwatch 2 releases in early October, but we do know Blizzard has one more new hero to introduce before that day: a new support character that can't come soon enough.
If there is a beta on the horizon, you'll find the signup page on Blizzard's official Overwatch 2 site (opens in new tab) .
Between a brief alpha period and two betas over three months, we've played a fair bit of Overwatch 2 at this point. Watch a full match above featuring one of the game's new heroes, Sojourn. This was captured during the first alpha, so keep in mind that there have already been loads of balancing changes implemented since then.
After a few years break from adding heroes to the original Overwatch, Blizzard is planning to launch Overwatch 2 with three new ones. We've only gotten details on two so far (and played them ourselves), but we have learned a bit about the third mystery hero coming later this year:
Orisa
For all intents and purposes, the Orisa of Overwatch 2 is a completely new hero. Gone is her iconic barrier, now replaced with a D.Va-like ability to block incoming projectiles by twirling her new javelin. Speaking of the javelin, her new right-click chucks the spear for devastating effect.
Doomfist
Doomfist has graduated from damage hero to tank in Overwatch 2. Unlike Orisa, he has retained the basics of his moveset. The main difference is that instead of dealing huge amounts of damage, his iconic punch is now better at pushing enemies around and creating opportunities for his team. His uppercut has been replaced with a vertical leap similar to Winston.
Bastion
The once immobile tank has grown a set of wheels. He can now move when transformed into turret form, but it only lasts for a few seconds. His self-heal right-click has been replaced with a new secondary grenade. He also has a new ultimate: a mortar barrage similar to Doomfist's meteor strike.
Overwatch 2 will launch with a slate of new maps, with more coming in later seasons. The first four shown above are Monte Carlo, Toronto, Gothenburg, and Rio De Janeiro. The last one with the big ring in the sky is still a mystery, but I sure like its style.
In the PvP alpha and beta, we played on the New Queen Street (Hybrid), Midtown (Payload), Circuit Royal (Escort), and Colloseo (Push) maps. There was also an assortment of old maps at the opposite time of day as they usually are, like daytime King's Row and golden hour Eichenwalde.
Because Overwatch 2 is functioning as a revamp for existing Overwatch PvP, it's less of a sequel and more of a relaunch. The original game will be replaced, with the free-to-play Overwatch 2 multiplayer serving as the singular Overwatch platform.
After many hours of time spent in the Overwatch 2 PvP alpha and beta, we have a lot of thoughts about the direction of the game (opens in new tab) . As Morgan Park wrote in his impressions, Overwatch has experienced a significant increase in speed, with new heroes like Sojourn exemplifying an accelerated pace of play.
Over two betas we've already seen some growing pains as Blizzard and players alike adapt to the faster game. When you've been playing a game one way for so long, it's sometimes hard to tell if the new way is bad or just different. It's felt like a mix of both so far. Supports, for instance, have needed numerous tweaks over the beta period because it's so much harder to stay alive in a 5v5 environment.
"The original Overwatch's DNA isn't all gone in Overwatch 2, but it's minimized enough that it starts to make certain non-aim-based heroes and strategies fall behind when they don't fit into the new rhythm of the game's team fights. Number tweaks can fix this, and I imagine that's the bulk of the work that will go into the beta outside of new hero releases. But Overwatch 2 makes me question whether or not squeezing the game into this slimmer form is worth all the trouble," our own Tyler Colp wrote (opens in new tab) .
Morgan has been writing for PC Gamer since 2018, first as a freelancer and currently as a staff writer. He has also appeared on Polygon, Kotaku, Fanbyte, and PCGamesN. Before freelancing, he spent most of high school and all of college writing at small gaming sites that didn't pay him. He's very happy to have a real job now. Morgan is a beat writer following the latest and greatest shooters and the communities that play them. He also writes general news, reviews, features, the occasional guide, and bad jokes in Slack. Twist his arm, and he'll even write about a boring strategy game. Please don't, though.
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All the details on Overwatch 2's new 5v5 multiplayer, new heroes, and more.
Overwatch 2 is finally a real game that people have played. Sort of. While the sequel's PvE mode has been banished into the future, we've had the opportunity to play the hero shooter's revamped PvP multiplayer in Blizzard's first two betas. So far, it sure feels a lot like Overwatch.
The pieces of the Overwatch 2 puzzle are finally starting to fit together, with the sequel beginning to seem like more of a free-to-play seasonal revamp. At the same time, it's undergoing some fundamental changes and bringing along plenty of new heroes, maps, and modes besides. And, someday, those long-absent PvE missions.
Here's everything we’ve learned so far about Overwatch 2.
Overwatch 2 enters early access on October 4, 2022 , as announced during the Xbox Showcase in June 2022, and will be free to play. Importantly, that's PvP only, not PvE, which will presumably get its own date later.
Blizzard just wrapped up its second PvP beta in July. It's still unclear if there will be another beta before Overwatch 2 releases in early October, but we do know Blizzard has one more new hero to introduce before that day: a new support character that can't come soon enough.
If there is a beta on the horizon, you'll find the signup page on Blizzard's official Overwatch 2 site (opens in new tab) .
Between a brief alpha period and two betas over three months, we've played a fair bit of Overwatch 2 at this point. Watch a full match above featuring one of the game's new heroes, Sojourn. This was captured during the first alpha, so keep in mind that there have already been loads of balancing changes implemented since then.
After a few years break from adding heroes to the original Overwatch, Blizzard is planning to launch Overwatch 2 with three new ones. We've only gotten details on two so far (and played them ourselves), but we have learned a bit about the third mystery hero coming later this year:
Orisa
For all intents and purposes, the Orisa of Overwatch 2 is a completely new hero. Gone is her iconic barrier, now replaced with a D.Va-like ability to block incoming projectiles by twirling her new javelin. Speaking of the javelin, her new right-click chucks the spear for devastating effect.
Doomfist
Doomfist has graduated from damage hero to tank in Overwatch 2. Unlike Orisa, he has retained the basics of his moveset. The main difference is that instead of dealing huge amounts of damage, his iconic punch is now better at pushing enemies around and creating opportunities for his team. His uppercut has been replaced with a vertical leap similar to Winston.
Bastion
The once immobile tank has grown a set of wheels. He can now move when transformed into turret form, but it only lasts for a few seconds. His self-heal right-click has been replaced with a new secondary grenade. He also has a new ultimate: a mortar barrage similar to Doomfist's meteor strike.
Overwatch 2 will launch with a slate of new maps, with more coming in later seasons. The first four shown above are Monte Carlo, Toronto, Gothenburg, and Rio De Janeiro. The last one with the big ring in the sky is still a mystery, but I sure like its style.
In the PvP alpha and beta, we played on the New Queen Street (Hybrid), Midtown (Payload), Circuit Royal (Escort), and Colloseo (Push) maps. There was also an assortment of old maps at the opposite time of day as they usually are, like daytime King's Row and golden hour Eichenwalde.
Because Overwatch 2 is functioning as a revamp for existing Overwatch PvP, it's less of a sequel and more of a relaunch. The original game will be replaced, with the free-to-play Overwatch 2 multiplayer serving as the singular Overwatch platform.
After many hours of time spent in the Overwatch 2 PvP alpha and beta, we have a lot of thoughts about the direction of the game (opens in new tab) . As Morgan Park wrote in his impressions, Overwatch has experienced a significant increase in speed, with new heroes like Sojourn exemplifying an accelerated pace of play.
Over two betas we've already seen some growing pains as Blizzard and players alike adapt to the faster game. When you've been playing a game one way for so long, it's sometimes hard to tell if the new way is bad or just different. It's felt like a mix of both so far. Supports, for instance, have needed numerous tweaks over the beta period because it's so much harder to stay alive in a 5v5 environment.
"The original Overwatch's DNA isn't all gone in Overwatch 2, but it's minimized enough that it starts to make certain non-aim-based heroes and strategies fall behind when they don't fit into the new rhythm of the game's team fights. Number tweaks can fix this, and I imagine that's the bulk of the work that will go into the beta outside of new hero releases. But Overwatch 2 makes me question whether or not squeezing the game into this slimmer form is worth all the trouble," our own Tyler Colp wrote (opens in new tab) .
Morgan has been writing for PC Gamer since 2018, first as a freelancer and currently as a staff writer. He has also appeared on Polygon, Kotaku, Fanbyte, and PCGamesN. Before freelancing, he spent most of high school and all of college writing at small gaming sites that didn't pay him. He's very happy to have a real job now. Morgan is a beat writer following the latest and greatest shooters and the communities that play them. He also writes general news, reviews, features, the occasional guide, and bad jokes in Slack. Twist his arm, and he'll even write about a boring strategy game. Please don't, though.
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