Overwatch 2 comes to Steam next month, more Blizzard games on the way

Overwatch 2’s next hero, Illari, arrives Aug. 10 alongside one of Blizzard Entertainment’s biggest updates to the free-to-play shooter, a content drop called Invasion. A new look at Overwatch 2: Invasion gives fans a first taste of Illari in action; she’s a support hero of Peruvian origin, and she’s armed with a massive solar-powered gunblade and a unique ability to heal her teammates.

Pokemon Go players will soon get a chance to capture even more Pokemon in the popular mobile game, as the Pokemon Company has confirmed today that Gen 9 Pokemon from the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet will be joining the games this September.

Blizzard said it has banned Diablo 4 players who used a character realm transfer exploit that went viral late July.

Blizzard Entertainment is gearing up to release the sixth season of Overwatch 2 into the marketplace. If you’re eager to dive into the season, then anything marketing-wise might catch your attention. Well, it looks like one piece of marketing material managed to get out to the public before its actual scheduled release. The best part about this is that the actual president of Blizzard Entertainment was reportedly the individual responsible for the leak. Now fans are getting a quick peek into some of the upcoming season six skins.

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While admittedly insufferable at times, an advantage that living, breathing video game journalists have over their relentless AI competitors is the fear of being wrong publicly, which is a powerful motivator for us fragile flesh bags. If you don't know what a Glorbo is, good, it means you passed the test.

Initially, the iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS via Satellite was only limited to users in the U.S., but Apple eventually expanded it to Canada and European regions like Italy. The first case where the feature ended up helping individuals outside of the United States and Canada was in the Italian mountains, where some tourists lost their way during an outing.

The Destiny and Diablo communities went at each others’ throats on Twitter last month due to a comment made by a Destiny 2 developer who called out Diablo 4’s enemy scaling. He said that “it is one of the worst ideas in video games” and said that it takes away from playstyles and ruins power trips. Blizzard President Mike Ybarra responded with a simple “Lazy, huh.” but gamers on Twitter were divided over how games should adjust the difficulty.

It’s the battle of the free FPS games, as Valve’s Team Fortress 2 has briefly overtaken Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 in terms of concurrent Twitch viewers. With multiple reasons for the spike in viewers that overtook OW2, and the Blizzard shooter’s impending Steam release, it looks like it could be in for some friendly competition with Team Fortress 2 going forward.

Krafton – the publisher behind PUBG: Battlegrounds and Striking Distance Studios' The Callisto Protocol – and Smash Legends developer 5minlabs have partnered up to release Kill the Crows, a «gratuitously brutal action» game, and you can try it yourself now via a new Steam demo.

My Nintendo is cycling through icons yet again, and this time, it’s Pikmin 4‘s time to shine. Well, the whole Pikmin series really, because while Oatchi (the adorable dog and mascot of the game) and a few Pikmin 4-exclusive art pieces are on full display, several also represent Pikmin in a general sense dating all the way back to the start of the franchise many moons ago.

In preparation for the start of Diablo 4 Season 1 – Season of the Malignant, Blizzard has released update v1.1.0a for the long-awaited action RPG sequel. As players have got to grips with the changes and inspected the patch notes, a wave of dissatisfaction has washed up on social media and message boards, as Blizzard has seemingly nerfed pretty much every character class and build in the game.