Tag: Blizzard Entertainment
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Soldier 76, Gay Icon
Blizzard recently brought Soldier: 76 out of the closet. A new short story, Bastet, brings new lore about two fan favorites, Ana and Jack Morrison (or Soldier: 76). This comes a little over two years after Tracer was the first Overwatch character to become canonically LGBT+. In this story, it’s revealed that Jack gave up a life…
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Overwatch League Skin Unlocks Have a Dumb ‘Easter Egg’
The first season of the Blizzard-hosted eSports tournament) Overwatch League has now begun. With it, hundreds of skins based on each League team’s colors are available for players to unlock in-game. You get one free, but the rest will cost you. When players unlock one of these Overwatch League skins, the game will play a…
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Crumbling The Tower of Babel with Cinematic Storytelling
As technology advances, video game cinematics play an increasingly important role in games with heavy narratives. Trailers and cutscenes become a shared talking point amongst players. An individual’s play style may vary from person to person, but the cinematics they watch remain the same – most of the time, anyway. Sometimes, translation gets in the…