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Season 10 of Overwatch 2 will be a big one for Blizzard’s free-to-play shooter. It will introduce a new hero in Venture, a new damage-class addition to the roster, and the first taste of a brand-new game mode, Clash. We’re also getting a very evil-looking Mercy.

Overwatch 2 has revealed changes to 10 heroes that will be available in Season 10, including adjustments to the upcoming hero Venture. Overwatch 2 Season 10 is highly anticipated due to the number of changes announced by Blizzard. These tweaks promise to change Overwatch 2 significantly, shaking up the current state of the hero shooter.

The new Los Muertos weapon skins in Overwatch 2 change color depending on whether the character is in light or shade. This awesome detail sets these weapon skins apart from any other Overwatch 2 cosmetic, and showcases some exciting technology that could be used in the future.

Overwatch 2 might be working on introducing new types of Mythic cosmetics besides skins. While Overwatch 2 hasn’t confirmed anything yet, a recent interview response seemed to suggest these customizations were a distinct possibility.

Overwatch 2 is considering changing how the DPS passive works for Tanks in the future. While it seems satisfied with the new healing penalty in general, Overwatch 2 may eventually make it less severe on Tanks to ensure they can fulfill their roles more easily.

Overwatch 2‘s PvE mode has reportedly been permanently scrapped as Blizzard struggles to find focus for the hero shooter sequel.

Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller revealed some of the changes coming to Colosseo in Season 11 later this year, which focus on the map's middle section and bridge sections. Keller also described some of the adjustments coming to Overwatch 2's Numbani sometime after Season 11.

Blizzard Entertainment is «confident» Overwatch 2can be «successful» without having heroes in the battle pass.

At this point, Overwatch 2 has become notorious for its expensive cosmetics. It's not at all unusual to see skins available to buy that cost roughly $25, which is a considerable price for a single in-game outfit. To put it into perspective, that's $5 more than the price of the original Overwatch's standard edition back before the free-to-play sequel replaced it.

Overwatch 2 is undergoing big changes in Season 10, starting with all heroes becoming free. There will also be a new shop for Mythic Skins, announced game director Aaron Keller in the latest Developer Update. It will allow players to purchase previous and current seasonal Mythic Skins, though pricing is unknown.

Amid reports of Overwatch’s 2 PvE likely not getting any new missions, game director Aaron Keller shared some positive news on the latest Developer Update. He first confirmed that Venture, a new Damage dealer, is coming with Season 10 and can burrow underground.

Overwatch 2 heroes will be free at release starting with the launch of Season 10 in mid-April.

It's a great day for free-to-play Overwatch 2 players, but not so much for those who've been spending money on the first-person shooter to get access to new heroes as soon as possible. Blizzard has confirmed that from Season 10 onwards, new playable characters will be distributed to everyone instantly, preventing paying players from accessing new heroes faster than free-to-play users.

It's finally happening—around a year and a half after its early access launch, Overwatch 2 is removing all of its heroes, new and old, from its Battle Pass. This means that free-to-play players will soon be able to instantly access new heroes at the same time as those paying for the Premium Battle Pass without spending a penny.

Blizzard is finally making it easier to unlock new heroes in Overwatch 2. This is big news, as players regularly complain about how difficult it is to obtain new characters in the live-service shooter. Currently, people get new heroes by paying for and grinding through a battle pass, buying them outright or waiting until they become available as a reward for winning a certain number of games. That changes with the forthcoming season 10, as the company will make new and old heroes available for free to all players.

Blizzard is overhauling the way it introduces new heroes into Overwatch 2 starting in Season 10, by making them free and immediately available to all players instead of locking them behind the game's premium battle pass or a progression grind, as was previously the case.

The next season of Overwatch 2 will introduced a new hero, Venture, and a new way to unlock them. Instead of having to pay for the game’s premium battle pass or unlock that new hero through dozens of hours of gameplay, Blizzard will make Venture and all future heroes available to free for all players when they launch.

Following the cancellation ofOverwatch 2’s Hero Mode, Blizzard Entertainment shifted towards delivering PvE missions in seasonal updates. However, after last year’s three story missions in Invasion, there’s been no sign of further additions. Sources speaking to Kotaku recently revealed that the original plan was to release three missions “every 18 months.”

Overwatch 2’s current season will wrap up in the coming weeks, but what should fans look forward to in Season 10? It seems the development team at Blizzard is kickstarting the hype cycle earlier than usual, as a new Developer Update video is coming on March 19th. Game director Aaron Keller will discuss “future updates”, including Season 10, which is “shaping up to be a great one.”

Overwatch 2 recently confirmed Wrecking Ball is getting a small rework in Season 10. Players can expect this challenging Overwatch 2 Tank hero to play a little differently after Season 9 ends in early April.

Overwatch 2 is bringing back Quick Play: Hacked with Double Trouble – a game mode that removes the one hero limitation on each team. Players can expect to see this new gameplay experiment sometime before Overwatch 2 Season 9 ends in early April.

The Overwatch 2 team is tweaking "roughly half" of the playable heroes in the upcoming midseason patch.

Overwatch 2 just revealed a slew of changes coming in the mid-Season 9 patch, including a slight nerf to the new DPS passive, and buffs to Ana, Lifeweaver, Doomfist, and Mauga. These changes and more will arrive in Overwatch 2 on March 12.

Overwatch 2 just teased some more updates coming to Competitive Play in Season 10. The ranked PvP mode may have just received some huge updates in Season 9, but Overwatch 2 already has plans to make more improvements in the near future.

Overwatch 2 is making some changes to the Push, Flashpoint, Hybrid, and Escort game modes to make them faster-paced. These speed adjustments are being made in response to positive feedback during the recent Quicker Play test Overwatch 2 held as a part of its new Quick Play: Hacked feature.

Activision Blizzard is making «major changes» to Overwatch 2 as part of a «revitalisation» of the free-to-play shooter that hopes to «make PvP gameplay more rewarding and fun», as well as «provide greater transparency for players in-game».

Overwatch 2’s next season will introduce a major rework for at least one hero, but every hero in Blizzard’s team-based shooter will feel different starting in the new season. The developer is set to make “major changes to the fundamentals of Overwatch 2 gameplay” with season 9, known as Champions.

The developers of Overwatch 2 received heavy backlash after revealing there were new healing changes coming to the FPS without providing much context. They now want to let the fans know this was a mistake, and explain themselves just a bit better in the interim. 

Another day, another blowup over Overwatch 2 changes. In a recent blog discussing balance changes coming in Overwatch 2 Season 9, Blizzard revealed that all heroes will soon be given passive healing abilities. That certainly raised a lot of eyebrows, considering Overwatch already has an entire class of characters – the Support heroes – dedicated to healing. Blizzard claims the change is designed to reduce “damage spikes” during combat, although some may argue the cost of achieving that is too great.

Last week, Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller caused controversy among players by revealing major gameply changes that'll see tank and damage heroes receive a «modified, tuned-down version of the Support self-healing passive» in Season 9 — and Keller has now admitted it was a «mistake» to make the announcement «out of context».

The Overwatch 2 game director apologized after announcing controversial new changes coming with the game's next seasonal update. Overwatch 2's Season 9 is expected to launch on February 20th.

The director of Overwatch 2 has said it was a "mistake" to reveal a controversial new self-healing mechanic coming to all characters in the hero shooter “out of context."

Say what you will about Overwatch 2, but Blizzard Entertainment isn’t afraid to experiment with the core gameplay. Fresh off Quick Play: Hacked, game director Aaron Keller confirmed that features like Spawn Together would receive a tuning pass. Party Frames, the on-screen health bars for teammates seen in PvE, are also likely to arrive.

Overwatch 2's game director has apologized for the way a major change in the FPS game was announced, explaining that it was a "mistake" to reveal it out of context.

In one of the wildest updates I've ever seen from a competitive shooter, Overwatch 2 is giving every hero in the game their own built-in healing as part of an effort to reduce the dominance of "team strategy and mechanics." 

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Big changes are coming to Overwatch 2 in the game’s next season as Blizzard Entertainment experiments with ways to shake up its hero shooter. Some of those changes are being tested right now, thanks to a weekend-long event called Quick Play: Hacked, in which the rules of Quick Play mode have been altered to make games much, much faster.

Overwatch 2 developer Blizzard Entertainment teased the shooter’s next Mythic skin — Grand Beast, for tank hero Orisa — on Tuesday. That new skin, available as the ultimate battle pass reward for Overwatch 2’s next season, was received with a thunderous “That’s… it?” from fans upon its reveal. It’s the third Mythic skin in a row that’s notably underwhelmed the Overwatch community, in part because the skin looks so similar to an already available cosmetic for Orisa.

Blizzard says it wants Mauga to «feel strong at launch.»

Sitting in the press room, watching the BlizzCon 2023 opening ceremony this year as returning Warcraft Executive Creative Director Chris Metzen take the stage to reveal the next three World of Warcraft expansions, I was reminded of Marvel’s Kevin Feige announcing entire new slates of movies coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe at Comic-Con.

The Overwatch team did something unprecedented at this weekend’s BlizzCon. Not only did they reveal new tank hero Mauga (and made him immediately playable for everyone during a weekend trial), developers showed off two more heroes coming to Overwatch 2 in 2024. They even teased a third, another tank, who won’t come to the game until season 14.

Overwatch Game Director Aaron Keller has announced that Overwatch will receive a new PvP mode called «Clash»! Besides Escort, Control, Flashpoint, Hybrid, and Push, Clash will be Overwatch's sixth standard PvP mode. Blizzcon 2023 Opening Ceremony Liveblog Mauga Announced As New Hero In Overwatch Back in 2022, Overwatch's development team removed the Assault game mode, also known as 2CP, which was widely criticized due to its snowbally nature and lack of tactical components.

The opening ceremony for BlizzCon 2023 has just begun, and we're liveblogging all of the most interesting highlights! Come join us in watching all the highlights and reveals! The opening ceremony has now included, but you can check out our recap below.

Blizzard Entertainment’s BlizzCon is back and in-person for the first time in four years. BlizzCon 2023 runs Nov. 3-4 in Anaheim, but Blizzard fans can watch the show from anywhere, with two days of live broadcasts.

BlizzCon 2023 opened its doors today, and set the stage for the publisher’s road ahead. From an acquisition to new heroes and expansions, there’s a quite a few things to recap from the BlizzCon 2023 Opening Ceremony.

In the latest turn of Overwatch 2 versus its own fans, it has come to light that the community has abandoned the game’s PvE lobbies.

Diablo 4 will be the second Blizzard title available on Valve's PC gaming platform, alongside Overwatch 2.

It's spooky season for Blizzard's FPS, and that means Halloween-themed events and skins.

Overwatch 2’s next season, known as Rise of Darkness, starts Oct. 10, Blizzard Entertainment confirmed Monday. At least some of the content coming during this spooky season will be themed around another Blizzard franchise, Diablo. That will include a new skin for Moira modeled after Diablo 4’s Lilith and what appears to be a new version of the Junkenstein’s Revenge game mode set in a slice of Blizzard World.

Overwatch 2 has had a fairly rough go of it since launch, but since coming to Steam, Blizzard has been struggling with a fresh PR disaster. Thanks to Steam's detailed, egalitarian analytics, it became the platform's "Worst Game of All Time", which is a pretty tough moniker to spin into a positive.

Even the most avid fan can’t deny that Overwatch 2 is in an odd place right now. Whether you’re happy with the gameplay or not, optics surrounding the title are at an all-time low. At the time of writing, Overwatch 2 is the lowest-rated game on Steam, an unthinkable achievement for such a well-known franchise. It appears that the higher-ups at Blizzard have noticed, and their response? Well, it’s something.

Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller has addressed the elephant in the room in the latest blog update for the game.

The director of Overwatch 2, Aaron Keller, has addressed the review bombing the game has received over on Steam.

Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller has taken the time to not only respond to the game's unfortunate review bombing on Steam, but also to reassure fans how much content is waiting ahead for them.

The director of Overwatch 2 has addressed the review bombing the game has been receiving on Steam since its release on the platform last week.

Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller acknowledges recent review bombing, admitting that it isn't a "fun experience". This comes after Overwatch launches on Steam for the first time, prompting players to vent their frustrations over various aspects of the game, including recent PvE cancellations and the game's shutdown in China.

In case you missed it, Overwatch 2’s long-awaited PvE story missions were finally released as part of Season 6: Invasion. The response has been mixed, despite their quality. However, their release was quickly overshadowed by the game’s debut on Steam, as it became the lowest-rated title in the platform’s history.

Blizzard has acknowledged player «dissatisfaction» after Overwatch 2was review-bombed into oblivion when it released on Steam last month, swiftly becoming the game with the lowest-ever user score on Steam.

Blizzard has opened up about the impact Overwatch 2 «review bombers» have had on the team, acknowledging that the «dissatisfaction» stems from «the cancellation of the much larger component of PvE that was announced in 2019 [...] that Blizzard ultimately couldn't deliver».

Overwatch 2 debuted on Steam last week and was immediately hit with so many negative user reviews that it's now the lowest-scoring game on the platform.

Overwatch 2 has been taking a beating in Steam user reviews, and game director Aaron Keller has responded to that pummeling as part of a broader blog post discussing the release of the game's Invasion update.

Overwatch 2 has been available for a while on multiple platforms, though it was in Early Access. With the Invasion update, the game left early access and officially launched on August 10.

Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller shared the studio’s side when it comes to balancing out the characters in the game. What he’s revealed might surprise all but the game’s hardcore player base.

Overwatch 2 has launched to 'Overwhelmingly Negative' Steam user reviews.

The saga of Overwatch 2 has been one of the stranger ones in Blizzard's history. If you run the game all the way back to its origins, you'll remember that it rose from the ashes of a cancelled MMORPG codenamed "Titan," became the 2016 hero shooter Overwatch that wetted Activision's appetite for an esports franchise, and morphed into a free-to-play live service game that was initially pitched as a standalone sequel.

Game Director Aaron Keller put out a blog discussing hero balance changes coming with Season 6: Invasion on August 10th, including Mercy nerfs, Orisa buffs, and more!

Overwatch 2's director has addressed fans' balance criticisms, explaining that: "It's easy from the outside to look in and put this narrative on it." 

Overwatch 2's has a second railgun character now, but instead of a DPS like Sojourn, she's a support who harnesses the power of the sun.

Overwatch 2 support changes are at the forefront of Overwatch 2 Season 6, and they’ll see one of the game’s original and most popular heroes hit with a key nerf to her signature ability. Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller shares details of what balance changes to expect in the next set of Overwatch 2 patch notes and, ahead of the new support hero coming to the FPS game, the tweaks include a key Mercy damage boost nerf.