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,...
Back at BlizzCon, Blizzard told us they were working on a series of animated short films set in the Overwatch universe, to be released closer to the game’s launch. Well now that we have an official launch date, the shorts are going to start rolling in—along with a variety of comic books. The first short is called ‘Recall’ and centers...
Blizzard builds enduring franchises through colourful characters and tomes of lore, and it looks like Overwatch has been pegged for a permanent place in the hallowed family of Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft. In the run-up to release we can expect a series of animated shorts and six free digital comics zoning in on different heroes. Maybe we’ll get the...
If a set of screengrabs are to be believed, May has just become a bit busier with the release of Overwatch. Redditor Deadpoolthegreat claims to have snapped some ads giving away the big day that appeared briefly on the IGN site. Both mobile and desktop ads suggest that Overwatch will be with us May 24, with early open beta...
