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Overwatch’s Echo Plays Like A Hero Designed To Fit Any Situation, With Devastating Effect

Overwatch's list of characters just got a little bigger with the addition of Echo, the game's 32nd playable hero. Blizzard first showed off Echo in action, at least a bit, during the "Zero Hour" cinematic trailer for Overwatch 2, and finally announced her arrival in the game earlier this week. We now have a sense of what Echo's role is on a team, how she'll play, and where she came from.Blizzard gave GameSpot an early look at the character ahead of her launch on the public test realm, showing us

Overwatch Echo Preview: A Hero Who Can Switch Roles To Devastating Effect

Overwatch's list of characters just got a little bigger with the addition of Echo, the game's 32nd playable hero. Blizzard first showed off Echo in action, at least a bit, during the "Zero Hour" cinematic trailer for Overwatch 2, and finally announced her arrival in the game earlier this week. We now have a sense of what Echo's role is on a team, how she'll play, and where she came from.Blizzard gave GameSpot an early look at the character ahead of her launch on the public test realm, showing us

Splinter Cell Is Crossing Over With Ghost Recon: Breakpoint Soon

Splinter Cell is crossing over with Ghost Recon again, with Sam Fisher joining in for a new adventure announced for the series' latest iteration, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. The event will go live on March 24, along with a big content update that hopefully won't be delayed due to COVID-19.A teaser trailer features the infamous agent conversing with a member of the Ghosts present on Auroa--the fictional island that is home to the armed-drone nightmare of Breakpoint's main campaign. Fisher also mentions Terminators, which references a limited-time event that was previously

Overwatch’s Next Character Is Echo

After a whole bunch of speculation from the Overwatch community, Blizzard has finally revealed the identity of its hero shooter's next character. It's Echo, a robotic character we saw back during BlizzCon 2019's Overwatch 2 announcement.Blizzard dropped an origin story video to give players a sense of who Echo is, which you can watch below. According to Blizzard's tweet introducing the Echo video, she's "an evolutionary robot programmed with a rapidly adapting artificial intelligence." It didn't say when Echo will be available in the game, however.Introducing Echo.An evolutionary robot programmed

Blizzard Announces Overwatch’s Next Character Is Echo

After a whole bunch of speculation from the Overwatch community, Blizzard has finally revealed the identity of its hero shooter's next character. It's Echo, a robotic character we saw back during BlizzCon 2019's Overwatch 2 announcement.Blizzard dropped an origin story video to give players a sense of who Echo is, which you can watch below. According to Blizzard's tweet introducing the Echo video, she's "an evolutionary robot programmed with a rapidly adapting artificial intelligence." It didn't say when Echo will be available in the game, however.Introducing Echo.An evolutionary robot programmed

Hearthstone sends Leeroy to Hall of Fame, reworks Priest class

Leeroy Jenkins is charging straight into the Hearthstone Hall of Fame, but the bigger story might be that Blizzard is changing Priest as everyone knows it. It's that time of year for the Hearthstone Hall of Fame. That's when a handful of overused Standard cards from the Classic set are removed from Standard play and shifted into Wild. This year's class of cards is led by the old staple Leeroy Jenkins, but that's not the end of it. Blizzard is taking a massive sledgehammer to the Priest class, totally changing

Visual Novel ‘A Summer’s End – Hong Kong 1986’ from Oracle and Bone Releases Next Month on PC with Mobile to Follow

I’m a big fan of visual novels and enjoy the ones that have a great visual identity. Over the weekend, I discovered A Summer’s End – Hong Kong 1986 from Oracle and Bone. A Summer’s End – Hong Kong 1986 is a visual novel set in Hong Kong in 1986 that follows Michelle’s day to day life in one summer. VA-11 HALL-A is one of my favourite games of all time thanks to its art, writing, and music. A Summer’s End – Hong Kong 1986 looks like it nails the

Disney Canceled A Tron TV Show From Oscar-Winner John Ridley

A big new story from The Hollywood Reporter contains fascinating insight into Disney's new streaming service, Disney+, including some of its growing pains. One of the revelations from the story is that Disney was said to be working on a Tron TV series from Oscar-winning writer John Ridley (12 Years A Slave, Three Kings, American Crime) before it was eventually scuttled.The Tron series was never announced, so this is the first time we're hearing about it. The report goes on to state that Ridley was working on the series as

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Bloodborne (Again) -- Tamoor Hussain, Senior EditorHello, it's me, Tamoor, GameSpot's resident broken record. Have you heard the good word? Bloodborne is a fantastic game! A few weeks ago I wrote about how I was playing through it yet again and loving it, and wouldn't you know it, I'm still doing that. Bloodborne has become so core to my identity of late that I suspect more than a few of my friends are secretly making fun of me because it's all I can talk about.I just reached The Hunter's Nightmare,