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mothership.blog
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A shattered Switch can be a big red flag
Peak Is A Playground For Slapstick Comedy - Aftermath
Aftermath
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Peak creates space for players to really fuck around, punctuated by a swift emphasis on finding out
Overwatch 2's Perks Are The Game's Latest Identity Crisis - Aftermath
Aftermath
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All perked up and nowhere to go - Overwatch 2 is in the middle of an extended identity crisis.
What Marvel Rivals and Overwatch Can Learn From Each Other
AV Club
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Two popular hero shooters - one that is heavily cribbing from the other, could stand to have less rivalry and more sharing of gameplay and UI innovations.
House Flipper 2 is an absolute dream (home)
Polygon
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More than a building or cleaning sim, the House Flipper sequel has tons of fun challenges for cozy game players on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.
Fortnite's Marriott Bonvoy Land is a ghost town of video game sadness
Polygon
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Epic Games' collaboration with the massive hotel conglomerate and Zen Creative is a surrealist ghost town on the ever-growing platform.
Elon Musk doesn't know his Mercy fetish is boring
Polygon
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A new biography of Elon Musk includes an anecdote about how he asked then-girlfriend Amber Heard to cosplay as Mercy from Overwatch for him. He's since leaked the photo. All of this says a lot about Musk.
The Overwatch anime is a stumble in the series' narrative ambitions
Polygon
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Genesis, the 3-part pseudo-documentary anime series on YouTube, makes it hard to care about Aurora, an AI who supposedly sparked the Omnic Crisis in Overwatch lore.
Overwatch 2's Latest Hero Lifeweaver: A Primer
Paste Magazine
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Hope blooms as Overwatch 2' s Season 4 rolls out, which includes the release of the newest support hero, Lifeweaver . A beautiful Thai "biolight" architect who aids his allies with plant-based constructs, Lifeweaver feels like an interesting first experiment in hero design post-launch.
A messy era of gay comedies is finally paying off
Polygon
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Gay men have always been a part of comedy, even if at their own expense - prissy sissies, snide queens, and swishy creatives. Portraying male homosexuality on screen as appealing or relatable has been a small part of the long history of film, but only in the last three decades have gay creatives been the ones opening the doors for those ideas.
Overwatch 2 coach says gameplay isn't the key - it's 'how you are as a person'
Polygon
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At 28 years old, Jacob "Spilo" Clifton is a career coach at Overwatch and Overwatch 2, and his experience has shown him that "how you are as a person" matters more to your improvement than any gameplay technique or training regimen.
Overwatch 2's Complicated New Tank, Ramattra, Highlights Some of the Game's Biggest Problems
Paste Magazine
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With the release of Overwatch 2's first post-launch season, Season 2, fans are getting to play the first post-launch tank hero, Ramattra. An imposing robot who can transform at will, he represents not just a complication of tank design, but also the game's long-neglected worldbuilding around the Omnics.
Elden Ring's Malenia embodies FromSoftware's problems with women
Polygon
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She lies there, deep in the belly of the Haligtree, as if she had merely dozed off in the shafts of lights that filter down. Malenia the Severed ( defender of Miquella!) has fallen to pieces, her one good arm resting at the feet of the whorls and gnarls that held her childlike brother.
Will Overwatch 2 Ruin What Made Overwatch Special to Begin With?
Paste Magazine
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Overwatch has changed significantly in the last six years, and will undergo another major transformation when fans log into Battle.net on Oct. 4, as Overwatch 2, the tragically named expansion-cum-update to Blizzard Entertainment's popular hero shooter, will be fully replacing the current game that fans have been playing for six years.
Arcane embraces queer aesthetics, but settles for a maybeship
Polygon
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Since Arcane, Riot Games' first foray into television, debuted in November, it has received adoration and praise across the board from critics, particularly in its handling of yet another video game adaptation. Missing from much of the criticism is any nuanced consideration of the show's queer narratives.
How 'Overwatch' Lost, Then Found Again, the Things That Made It Special
VICE
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As its sequel comes into focus, Blizzard finally figures out what it wants 'Overwatch' to be. When it was released in 2016, Overwatch was seen as an innovative entry in the shooter genre that was accessible and entertaining.
Overwatch-playing dad charms the internet with his acrobatic play style
Polygon
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Given that video games have existed since the late '70s, it is not surprising that this hobby is shared multi-generationally. But just as parents and kids have good-natured spats over sports teams or food preparation, gaming habits can also cause the same chagrin.
Hades is about erotic punishment
Polygon
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At first, hits like a lightning bolt due to its addictive combat. But as your runs through the underworld start to pile up, the heady perfume of the story and aesthetic gets its hooks in you.
Unemployment diary: I'm a 37-year-old shift manager in Wisconsin who's been out of work since Mar...
Business Insider
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The Unemployed States of America takes readers deep inside the decimated American workforce. Nicholas J. Laurenzi is a 37-year-old shift manager based in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He lost his job at a video game retailer after the police told the store it was in violation for remaining open and ordered it closed.
Blizzard's Long History of Manic Pixie Nightmare Girls and Fear of Women
VICE
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Just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to die along with the rest of the world.
While he is not the first to notice, fantasy author Sam Sykes tweeted last month about the weird recurring archetype that Blizzard Entertainment has been employing with some of their most prominent female characters.
How An Overwatch Skin Left Some Of D.Va's Biggest Fans Feeling Betrayed
Kotaku
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Overwatch hero D.va has been considered a symbol of empowerment by a lot of feminists in the Korean Overwatch community, representing how women could be lauded for their talent instead of their looks. Long before Mei graced protest memes for Hong Kong, a group called FAMERZ, then called National D.va Association,...
7 Very Queer Overwatch Skins We Will Never Actually See in the Game
Fanbyte
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Overwatch is known for is its bright and imaginative hero skins (for better and for worse, sometimes). The base skins are interesting and distinctive, and pair well with the epic and legendary tier skins that feature full re-imaginings of the heroes we know so well.
Overwatch Teams Owe Care to Their Players, Not the Other Way Around
Fanbyte
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After playing only the first stage this season, one of Overwatch League's more notorious players, Daniel "DaFran" Francesca, previously Atlanta Reign's premier damage player, he stepped down to be one of their sponsored streamers. But his departure from the team prompted discussion that Dafran may have been acting "selfishly" by joining the team and then leaving so shortly afterwards.