DualShockers Game Of The Year Awards: The Case For Overwatch

The update also brings Capture the Rooster, Overwatch's version of Capture the Flag, to Arcade as an ongoing mode. Additionally, Capture the Rooster versions of Nepal, Lijiang Tower, Ilios, and Oasis have been added, giving you 12 m


February, while a month filled with love, will also be a month I hate, mostly because it will end with 249 less dollars left in my bank account. But in place of that $249 I will be receiving a shiny new PS Vita, a handheld I have been dying to get my hands on since back at E3 2011. So, of course my gaming time in February, albeit late February, will be dominated by Vita titles like Uncharted: Golden Abyss , but the title I'm most looking forward to is Virtua Tennis 4 for its clever use of touch and its addictive nat


If you haven't seen some of Overwatch 's excellent cinematic shorts, you're missing out on some significant backstory. In " Alive ", Tracer takes on Talon sniper Widowmaker (real name Amélie Lacroix) and tries to prevent her from assassinating a prominent religious leader. After a furious fight on the rooftops of King's Row, Widowmaker makes the shot and kills holy robot Tekhartha Mondatta. Tracer demands the reason why, but Lacroix only offers a chuckle in reply. The pair fight again and poor Lena is left winded in an alley with her chronal accelerator on the fr

Soul Calibur V and NeverDead will fill in any gaps I might have between Uncharted: Golden Abyss , which will be ruling my life for most of February. The PS Vita is just generally going to keep my hands full... literally... with awesome. After sampling the smorgasbord of delicious games releasing for the system and the killer line-up of launch titles, I'm sold -- I'm more than sold, I am its slave. All hail the V


In the short, we learn that Lena Oxton (callsign Tracer) was a skilled pilot, handpicked to fly the Slipstream -- a prototype jet capable of teleportation. Tragedy struck on the jet's maiden voyage and Oxton vanished, and she was presumed dead. She reappeared several months later, where it was revealed that a malfunction with the jet's teleportation matrix had trapped Lena between timelines. She kept phasing in and out of existence until primate scientist Winston invents the chronal accelerator, a device that stops her disappearing and keeps her anchored in the present day. Their time together also forged a great friendship between the two, with Winston considering Tracer part of his unconventional fam


According to the developers, Tracer, Reaper, and Widowmaker were the initial three heroes worked on by the team, with Tracer being the first. Her design is all about speed, which is why her iconic look is inspired by both fighter pilots and track athletes. As the character was refined, the creative teams ended up liking Lena so much that she automatically became the game's "mascot" despite not being intended as one. Creative director Chris Metzen even likened her to a certain wall-crawler, saying that Tracer became a " Spider-Man type character" for them, saying "She's so rad, and it feels good to leverage her in the front of story ide

Voting started on December 24th, and ended on January 21st. Each voter was asked to give ten preferences in order, with the first game scoring four points, second and third scoring three, ranks from four to six scoring two points, and the rest only one. Two honorable mentions were also allowed, but scored no points.


Skill ratings below 500 will no longer be displayed.

Developer Comments: We’ve noticed that some players have been deliberately throwing their matches in an effort to reach the lowest attainable skill rating. We obviously don’t want to incentivize this behavior, because Competitive Play works best when everybody is try


While I had several experiences to get me through months at a time throughout the year, Overwatch is the title that I kept coming back to all year long. Even in a year where shooters reigned supreme -- between it, DOOM , Titanfall 2 , Battlefield 1 , Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare , and so many others -- Overwatch surpassed not only my expectations of the experience it would offer as a competitive shooter, but genuinely came as a surprise in becoming my favorite gaming experience of the entire y


_Earlier this year, DualShockers revealed our 2016 Game of the Year Awards from both our readers and staff , including the overall GOTY (which was Final Fantasy XV this year for both readers and staff), Biggest Shocker!, and many mor


Critical hit volume reduced by 15%

Developer Comments: Winston's head hit volume was just abnormally big, making him take more damage than he otherwise should. This change brings it more in line with other her


While the game does lack single-player offerings when it comes down to a campaign or story mode...I'm not entirely sure that Overwatch even needs it. That may be an unpopular opinion in the day of age of multiplayer-only games, yet I've gotten far more out of the game's universe and world-building from simply playing the FPS Game walkthrough rather than going through a single-player campaign or experience that may have distracted from the game's excellent multiplayer experience and characters, if it had