Overwatch
Overwatch Reveals New Hero: Say Hello To Sombra, The Hacker
Blizzard just revealed their latest addition to the roster of Overwatch, and man is she a hack(er). Here’s the story of Sombra, the world’s most notorious hacker: Long before she took up the alias “Sombra,” she was among the thousands of children who were left orphaned in the aftermath of the Omnic Crisis. With much of her country’s infrastructure destroyed, she survived by utilizing her natural gifts with hacking and computers. After was taken in by Mexico’s Los Muertos gang, she aided it in its self-styled revolution against the government. Los Muertos believed that the rebuilding of Mexico had primarily benefited the rich and the influential, leaving behind those who were most in need of assistance. Following her many conquests, was supremely confident in her skills, but she...
Overwatch “Halloween Terror” Begins, To Go On Till 1st November
Overwatch, Blizzard’s latest, critically acclaimed (albeit a bit controversial) competitive shooter is all geared up for the month of Halloween, with a limited time seasonal event. Here’s what the official Overwatch blog reads: “When the shadows grow long and the nights grow cold . . . And witches’ cauldrons bubble with potions untold. . . When spirits and ghouls and abominations appear. . . It can mean only one thing: Halloween is here! The fright for the future has begun, heroes, and for the next three weeks, we’re celebrating the spookiest time of the year in true Overwatch fashion—with a brand new seasonal event! Explore the haunted streets of Hollywood, expand your collection of themed holiday items, and relive a chilling tale in our first-ever PvE brawl: Junk...
Top 4 Video Games That Sparked Controversy In India
Indians take offence easily and tend to get defensive when their sentiments are hurt. The tricky part is that India is a diverse nation and what might offend some section of society might not offend another and vice versa. Most would remember the Coldplay’s Hymn for the Weekend video faced a lot of flak for cultural appropriation of Indian religion and culture. I agree that India was depicted in a rather dramatic manner but I thought people seemed to forget that it was just a music video, which everyone knows is a bit over the top. I know dismissing it by just calling it a music video is not doing the controversy justice as this is a mulit-faceted debate. However there is an insightful article on The Guardian that gets into the finer details of this matter. Moving back to the articl...
Paladins, The Free-To-Play Shooter Coming To PS 4
The latest team based shooter, Paladins: Champions of the Realm, is making its way to the PlayStation 4, after taking the PC community by the storm. Made by Hi Rez Studios, the creators of SMITE, Paladins is a fantasy-themed Free-to-Play title that saw quite a huge success on the PC, with more than 1 million players taking part in the first 10 days of the open beta. The official announcement can be found on the PlayStation US Blog. “Paladins: Champions of the Realm, the new team-based shooter from SMITE developer Hi-Rez Studios, is coming to PS4 — and you can sign up for the Closed Beta right now! Never heard of Paladins? It’s the new free-to-play fantasy-themed first-person shooter that’s taken the PC gaming community by storm. In its first ten days of open beta on PC, more than 1 m...
Blizzard Issues Warning Against Lucioball’s Character Changing Exploit
Lucioball is the latest mode in Blizzard’s highly successful, ever-in-controversy Overwatch, an online competitive shooter. It allows changes the title to a more Rocket League-style game, and is centered around the Brazillian rollerblading, parkour-ing character, Lucio, whose moveset seems to be fir for this mode. However, due to a glitch, it is possible for a player to enter the mode as another hero, which is not meant to happen. I mean, otherwise we’d all have Bastion as the goalkeeper. And Tracer would make a cool cheerleader, but I digress. At first, the bug seemed to occur at random, but some players have apparently figured out how to make it happen intentionally, which in turn has rendered Blizzard to issue a warning against the players who seem to be doing so. “Apologies...
Universal Society of Hinduism Offended by Symmetra’s Overwatch Skin – OMG, Really?
Here we go again, someone is offended. This time, it is the Universal Society of Hinduism, whose President Rajan Zed is asking Blizzard to take down Symmetra’s new Devi skin from Overwatch, as it “trivializes Hinduism’s highly revered goddesses. Read his complete statement here. Rajan Zed said “that in a video game set-up, the player controlled the movements of Devi, while in reality the devotees put the destinies of themselves in the hands of their goddesses. Moreover, Devi and its movements depicted in Overwatch did not match with characterization of the goddesses in the scriptures.” Talk about shoving your religion down other people’s throats. Need we remind you that there is a game where you can actually play as different Gods? We’re talking ab...
Jaw Dropping Overwatch Fan Art
In addition to getting heat for Tracer’s “inappropriate” pose, Overwatch has made quite a lot of fans since its release. And with great fans comes great fan art. Here is some of the best we found on the internet for different Overwatch heroes. Genji Reaper Tracer Mei Lucio Junkrat Winston Widowmaker Reinhardt Tobjorn Mercy Hanzo Roadhog Zenyatta Special Mentions: And to top it all, here’s a Bastion toaster: Share some of your artwork with us! To see more of this amazing fan art, go to this thread. Source: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1219909 For more news and reviews, keep checking back at Gaming Central.
AMD RX 480 Price and Leaked Benchmarks: Both Better than Expected
Disclaimer: Gaming Central does not vouch for the accuracy of any of these benchmarks. They were leaked online and were deleted soon after. However, a YouTuber by the name of Alex was able to quickly upload these on his channel. The AMD Radeon RX 480 is available in two variants, a 4 GB and 8 GB . Powered by 2304 cores, this card is capable of gameplay at very high resolutions and VR as well. The memory on the Radeon RX 480 graphics card is clocked at 8 GB/s which gives us a total of 256 GB/s bandwidth on the graphics board along a 256-bit wide bus interface. Here are the specifications as given by TechPowerup. With these amazing specifications, it’s hard not to expect an equally amazing performance. And for a price tag of $200, the RX480 is a beast. Without further ado, let’s...
Top 10 Upcoming Shooting Games in 2016
Prepare to unleash those trigger fingers, cuz 2016 is filled with lots of exciting shooters, and this time around they look bigger and better. Doom’s coming! Do I need say more? Read one for our list of top 10 shooters releasing in 2016! Overwatch: Overwatch is a highly stylized team-based shooter set on earth in the near future. Every match is an intense multiplayer showdown pitting a diverse cast of soldiers, mercenaries, scientists, adventurers, and oddities against each other in an epic, globe-spanning conflict. Overwatch is primarily played from a first-person perspective. However, there are moments when certain abilities are used that pull the camera back to a third-person perspective, giving you an opportunity to watch the ability play out or get a better sense of your surroun...
Blizzard reveals Overwatch, a team-based competitive FPS
Launching its beta in 2015, Overwatch looks a bit like Blizzard’s more sci-fi/fantasy-inspired take on Team Fortress 2 with two teams of six duking it out. Blizzard described the game’s premise with the following passage: “In a time of global crisis, an international task force of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities known as Overwatch had come together to restore peace to a war-torn world. After many years, the group’s influence waned, and it was eventually disbanded. Overwatch might be gone now . . . but the world still needs heroes.” Overwatch lets players play as a diverse cast of characters including an armoured gorilla, a spiky-haired teleporting British lass, a wall-climbing ninja, a cybernetic angel, a viking mechanic, a lithe grappling hook...