Thanks to lokilaufey we can all be pretty like Jeff! Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host this week. Now this week, June 4th to be exact, marked what should have been Ryan Davis’s birthday. While Ryan is...
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host this week! With our Mario induced partying complete it bears repeating that the onslaught of E3 2016 is less than a month away. Are you ready for a lockdown baby? With...
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host! With the impending onslaught that is E3 looming nigh things have been relatively calm in the video game industry and in our community. That said there were plenty of special “highlights”...
Many thanks to lizzy dawson for creating this work of art! Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host! Don’t let anyone try to convince you that we experienced a low point at this point of the year. Considering...
It feels like a long time ago now, but just last week many were outraged about the imminent removal of a bum from Overwatch. The Tracer buttroversy, which reached wider and went on for longer than anyone surely dared dream, occurred in the wake of Blizzard’s decision to change the character’s victory pose to something slightly less butt-focused. Now, it...
Blizzard released the first Overwatch animated short earlier this month, and it was really quite impressive. It shone a bit of light onto the origins of Winston, the brilliant, Beast-like scientist who packs a ferocious punch, and maybe—probably—possibly contained a few secrets, too. Soon, fans will be able to start digging for more, as Blizzard...
Blizzard says it will remove an “over-the-shoulder” victory pose by the Overwatch hero Tracer, following a complaint on the Battle.net forums that it turns the time-bending teleporter into “another bland female sex symbol.” “We aren’t looking at a Widowmaker pose here, this isn’t a character who is in part defined by flaunting her sexuality. This...
The Overwatch beta patch that came out a couple of days ago made some big changes to the game, including the addition of an intriguing new game mode called Weekly Brawls. Similar to Hearthstone’s Tavern Brawls, they’ll feature unique, and sometimes very unusual, rules that will be rotated on a weekly basis. Blizzard mentioned two...
The Overwatch beta has undergone some big changes thanks to a “massive content patch” that rolled out today. The update adds a new Escort map called Route 66, and a “Weekly Brawl” play mode that rotates in new rules from Blizzard’s Custom Game system on a weekly basis. Taking inspiration from Hearthstone’s Tavern Brawls, Weekly...
Scott Lawler and Tomas Neumann had a tough mission when designing the sound for Overwatch. “We were talking with our game director, Jeff Kaplan, and he gave us this lofty goal of, ‘I want to be able to play the game with the monitor practically turned off,” explains Lawlor, senior sound designer on the project. “Of course,...
