Overwatch

Overwatch has jumped into first place with Koreans who take part in games at locations such as PC Bang, an Internet cafe chain. League of Legends had held the first position among these gamers for the past 4 years but has been unseated with Overwatch's soaring success.

Jeff Kaplan stars in the latest Developer Update that goes into a bit more detail about the upcoming competitive mode.

Chinese game developers have no shame when it comes to cloning hit games in other regions. The latest is League of Titans, a fervent effort (if poorly executed) to copy Overwatch for mobile devices. They say a picture speaks a thousand words so we'll just leave you with this video.

Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan has posted on the game's forum about some of the future plans for Blizzard's 10M player juggernaut. Kaplan writes that getting competitive play has been the primary focus as the team has been working to implement some of the community's feedback into the forthcoming update.

Just a couple weeks past release and Blizzard's Overwatch juggernaut continues to grow, expanding half again from its 7M players on launch day. As of today, Overwatch has scored 10M active players. That's pretty impressive by any measure.

A fan-made video is creating a stir in the Overwatch community. Styled after typical anime opening sequences, it takes footage from the Overwatch short films, teaser videos and more. It's fantastically done and worth watching. Check it out!

If there's one thing that is an immutable fact, it's that players will find diverse and innovative ways to play games. In one of the more entertaining Overwatch player videos, Team Genji takes on Team Genji in an epic badminton match with Junk Rat as the referee and a pair of Mercys creating the 'net'. It's a fun look and one of those "who'd have ever thought of something like this" moments that bring a good laugh.

When asked whether or not there would be cross platform play, @PlayOverwatch, the official Overwatch Twitter account, responded by saying that there were none at this time, though the development team would be keeping an eye on console cross platform play. It is possible that XBox One and PlayStation 4 players could take one another on in Overwatch, but there are no plans for PC and console cross play due to "balance and competitive issues".

Just over a week after release, Activision-Blizzard has announced that Overwatch has over seven million players taking part in FPS action around the world. In that single week, players have logged over one hundred nineteen million hours of gameplay action.

Blizzard had to take to Twitter to staunch the Overwatch flames that erupted after a tweet went out indicating that competitive play would be coming out "before the end of next month (July)". Late yesterday afternoon, @PlayOverwatch corrected the error with, you guessed it, another tweet.

According to the @PlayOverwatch Twitter account, competitive play, once thought to be headed to gamers in June, is now coming later in July. If so, it will mark the second time that competitive play has been delayed -- first taken out of the release version and now for up to a month after it was said to be coming out in June.

Blizzard has sent out a great looking new video to show how the giant-sized Overwatch characters that were displayed around the world were made. Characters include Genji, Tracer and Pharah and it's a fantastic, if brief, behind-the-scenes look. Check it out!

The star of the latest Overwatch comic is none other than turret building dward Torbjorn. Called "Destroyer", the comic follows Torbjorn as he takes the fight to a gigantic mechanized enemy.

During the Overwatch All-Stars launch event, Blizzard Senior Designer Michael Chu confirmed that new heroes and maps are definitely in the works and will be coming "soon" to the game.

Those who have been nervously climbing the walls for the past two weeks are now sated with the final arrival of Overwatch. Some server woes stopped players in their tracks but they seem to have more or less resolved themselves as millions of players score millions of more Bastion kills.