{"id":82381,"date":"2026-05-27T11:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82381"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:37:25","slug":"blizzard-boss-wouldnt-rule-out-overwatch-animated-series-knows-fans-have-wanted-it-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82381","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Boss Wouldn&#8217;t Rule Out Overwatch Animated Series, Knows Fans Have Wanted It for Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Ever since those initial Overwatch cinematics made their way onto our screens, the prospect of an Overwatch animated series has been an exciting one. For the past decade, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/overwatch-cartoon-and-diablo-anime-seem-to-be-on-the-way\">rumours of such a thing<\/a> have come and gone, but there may still be hope.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, I asked Walter Kong, Overwatch general manager and head of live games and mobile development at Blizzard, if a TV show translation of the hero shooter could still find its way to us. \u201cI would not rule it out,\u201d Kong replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time we release assets, whether it\u2019s a hero trailer or an event piece, there are all of these comments about, \u2018Hey, we would love an Overwatch animated series. Blizzard, what the hell? When&#8217;s that happening?\u2019 Kong continued. \u201cSo we certainly hear that and I think that it is not a huge stretch to believe that there would be a lot of demand for that type of content. So certainly, no, I won&#8217;t rule out that sometime in the future there could be other storytelling experiences in the Overwatch universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"overwatch-official-reign-of-talon-animated-short\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>Blizzard actually did try to get animated shows based on its games off the ground, but those efforts failed. In 2024,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since those initial Overwatch cinematics made their way onto our screens, the prospect of an Overwatch animated series has been an exciting one. For the past decade, rumours of such a thing have come and gone, but there may still be hope. In a recent interview, I asked Walter Kong, Overwatch general manager and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":82383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82385,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82381\/revisions\/82385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}