Overwatch Origin

Overwatch Origin
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Cover art featuring Tracer , one of the game's playable characters
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Windows , PS4 , Xbox One May 24, 2016 Nintendo Switch October 15, 2019

^ The game originally had four character classes prior to a June 2018 update, which combined the "offense" and "defense" classes into a single "damage" class. [1]

^ Tracer, Zarya, Lúcio, Genji, D.Va, Ana, Junkrat, Hanzo, and Mei are playable characters in Heroes of the Storm

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