Overwatch: 21 Tips to Make You a Better Hero

Overwatch: 21 Tips to Make You a Better Hero

Hi, PlayStation gamers! This is Scott Mercer, the principal designer for Overwatch at Blizzard Entertainment. We’re very excited for you to jump and play the game today. If you’re not familiar with Overwatch, it’s a team-based shooter that pits two teams of six larger-than-life heroes against each other on objective-based maps that span the globe….

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To make its fantasy extraction game, this studio of ex-Blizzard devs had to teach itself the art of third-person combat design: ‘There’s a science to how those are built’

Late last year, I played in a closed alpha playtest of Legacy: Steel & Sorcery, an upcoming extraction game pairing World of Warcraft-style high fantasy with third-person action combat. Over a couple of hours, I got an early taste of stringing together longbow headshots on skeletons, smashing wolves with maces, and panicked escapes as a…

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The Drop: New PlayStation Games for May 7, 2019

The 16-bit world is yours for the taking in Shakedown Hawaii, coming to PS4 and PS Vita. Vblank’s souped-up follow up to Retro City Rampage promises an open world island’s worth of havoc to wreak and “legitimate” businesses to grow. Start building your empire Tuesday. For a full list of new games coming to PlayStation…

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