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I got the opportunity to do an AMAZING commission concept for the excellent @buff-pink​ this week! 

Here are links to @buff-pink‘s Twitch and Youtube channels for Overwatch tips, especially concerning Zarya, and for some good fun with the game! Check them out if you’re as big a fan of the big pink lady as I am (as well as Tracer).

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NEW SKINS FOR ANN EVENT LEAKED. I’m pretty sure these aren’t all of them, just some of them being teased.

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Love Mercy’s design! Deffo finishing this lady soon, as well as her Imp skin^^

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wrONG BLOG

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Highlights from Michael Chu’s AMA

Fareeha ‘Pharah’ Amari is a classic rock fan (’I am the Rocket Queen!’)

About the family Reaper was looking at in Reflections, Chu states that ‘it’s not a random family’.

Not every hero will get a short. But all of them will get new interactions

Someday they’ll actually do the birthdays of the heroes, “but probably not soon just to make sure we don’t accidentally make some date mistakes in continuity" - Chu

Chu states that he would also love to explore more of Hanzo’s story, both before the fight with Genji, and after Dragons, to see what his reaction to confronting his brother again is

Genji’s father gave him the nickname of Sparrow, and Sparrow was actually the nickname the devs used for him while Genji was in development

It’s still up in the air who answers Overwatch’s recall, and who doesn’t

The omnic language is not easily translatable to English. It’s not intended to be a language that humans (who haven’t been augmented) could read easily

The Hero short takes place right around the time of the Recall

Tracer is apparently, a fan of Diego Costa (and maybe even Chelsea?)

There is, apparently, a lot of lore that has been worked out but not revealed to the public

Examples of this include when they create a new hero/map/story, there is a lot of backstory behind it that they don’t reveal, and will reveal over time

Mei and Efi are the best ‘doodlers’ (drawers) in the game

Apparently, Torbjörn has a pretty interesting cat that may or may not have a jetpack on it

Lúcio gets intense whenever Brazil plays Argentina. (Maybe he’s just tired of hearing Decime qué se siente so much.)

Chu also says that moving forward, some of the characters who have been underdeveloped will see some attention, and there will be a focus on Talon as well

There will also be further exploration of Widowmaker, and her tragic backstory

The Human Hating Gorillas on the moon, like the moon more than they do the earth. So they don’t want to come back down here

Revisiting the subject about who knows Reaper’s identity in the current timeline of Overwatch: “To clarify about the Reaper/Reyes thing, yes it is because they have not met in the ‘current day’ of Overwatch. The interactions in the game are meant to be what ifs. I do think that McCree would known that Reaper was Reyes if he encountered him.”

And finally, the answer to the most important question of all was never answered:

The world may never know.

The full AMA is right here if you’re interested in reading it.

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Gencio is the superior genji/healer ship Michael

Hello, anonymous!

I can’t reveal a whole lot about what romantic plotlines we have in the works but I am open to critique :)

Can’t reveal much though!

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The most important info from the Chu Q&A

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I’m havin a ball

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role reversal au!

symmetra is an aspiring bollywood dancer who steals a hard light projector and lucio composes music for vishkar to control keep the polulace calm

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synaesthesia details.

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i just met the most unfortunate man in the world today

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all supports are queens genji

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A female ‘Overwatch’ player was harassed for 16 minutes — so she uploaded it all to YouTube

An Overwatch gameplay video gaining traction online can only be described as 16 minutes of pure horror. Throughout the entire recording, several members on a female player’s team verbally harassed her, hurling moronic, sexist, rapacious vitriol at her — nonstop.

The video is absolutely gut-wrenching, not only because the content itself is horrifying, but also because it stands for something larger: It’s a distillation of the experience of gaming online if you don’t fit the stereotypical image of what a gamer is supposed to be.

“I am putting this and a few other examples of the way I am treated up not just for entertainment,” Overwatch player Glisa said in the description of the YouTube video. Read more (5/11/17)

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