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• New Overwatch patch buffs Mercy's Valkyrie ability, restores Lucio's Wall Ride speed

  Blizzard has released a new small patch for Overwatch last night.

• Overwatch reaches 35 million players

  Overwatch now has 35 million players on all platforms.

• Overwatch Halloween Terror skins ranked from "meh" to "you would cut off your own hand for this"

  Overwatch’s halloween event has coughed up a pile of shiny new skins for our favourite international operatives. Are they any good? Somewhat.

• Pre-orders for the limited Genji from Overwatch Figma figurine are live now

  Figma, an ever-expanding series of extremely detailed figurines based on pop culture characters, is adding Overwatch’s Genji to the fold. Pre-orders are up now.

• Overwatch Halloween Terror patch makes a big change to Ultimate charges and interruptions

  With the arrival of Overwatch’s Halloween Terror event comes a new patch.

• Overwatch: 'Treeboydave' becomes the first player to hit level 4000

  You might play a lot of Overwatch, but you almost certainly don’t play as much as this guy.

• Overwatch Halloween Terror event is live, adds new endless mode for Junkenstein’s Revenge

  The Overwatch Halloween Terror event is live.

• Blizzard is hiring for an unannounced Overwatch project

  An internship position for an Overwatch-related project has opened up at Blizzard.

• Overwatch Halloween Terror skins for Reaper, Mei, Zenyatta and Symmetra leak ahead of this week's event

  Overwatch skins included in the Halloween Terror event have leaked early.

• Blizzard is testing a change for the all-new Mercy on Overwatch's PTR

  The all-new, all-improved Mercy has been getting a lot of use since her overhaul, but Blizzard isn’t necessarily settling on the exact abilities she now has.

• Overwatch: Jeff Kaplan opens up about the challenges of communicating with fans on the game's forums

  Overwatch has been a massive success – but that can create its own unique challenges for a development team.

• Overwatch Halloween Terror 2017 kicks off next week, teaser shows McCree and Reaper skins

  Overwatch players will be able to celebrate Halloween early starting next week.

• The new Overwatch digital comic finds Zarya searching for answers and overcoming her hatred of Omnics

  The Overwatch lore continues to develop outside of the game in this new digital comic.

• Rare Overwatch bug is causing big SR drops, instant seasonal bans, Blizzard working on a fix

  A major, if rare bug was recently discovered in Overwatch, and it affects Competitive Play.

• New Overwatch update removes some maps from TDM rotation, fixes a few bugs

  Hot on the heels of the recent big Overwatch patch, Blizzard has released a new smaller one on PC.

• Overwatch: this fan-made concept art is so great that even Jeff Kaplan has taken notice

  Here’s a feel-good story for Friday – a concept art student has produced some really wonderful Overwatch concept art for their Masters project, and Blizzard has taken notice.

• Overwatch Competitive Play permanent bans will start next week

  Next week, Blizzard will implement a new Overwatch ban system that will permanently block the worst offenders from playing Competitive.

• Junkertown won't be part of Overwatch Competitive Play for another week

  Although Junkertown is now available on live Overwatch servers, the Competitive Play release will take longer.

• Overwatch's latest patch made it so players on Xbox One with bad reputation can't use voice chat

  The most recent Overwatch update made a big change to how Blizzard is dealing with bad players on Xbox One.