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Less than four years after its release, Overwatch 2 is dead.
Well. Kind of.
In all actuality, it’s far more accurate and exciting to say that Overwatch–as both a title and promise–has been resurrected.
Despite finally earning the “2” in its name following last year’s Overwatch Spotlight event, this year’s Spotlight saw Blizzard reach a conclusion many of its fans already had: It never needed that “2.” While Perks and Stadium might have reaffirmed the studio’s commitment to novelty and finding new ways to explore the hopeful, comic-inspired universe it created, those ideas have always been a part of the Overwatch experience. For that reason–and countless others, it turns out–Blizzard has decided to drop the “2” from its title. Overwatch 2 is now simply, and forevermore, Overwatch.
Across Overwatch’s 10-year history, countless fans have expressed that the Overwatch experience they long for is not one that redefines the game’s core gameplay or introduces newness at the expense of altering everything the game already does so well; they’ve longed for a bold return to form, and the full realization of the promises the studio made all those years ago. Based on Overwatch’s February Spotlight event–and the hours upon hours I spent at Blizzard’s studio, interviewing
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