Overwatch will celebrate its anniversary with a new event, a GOTY edition and a weekend of free play.
As last week’s rumours suggested, the Overwatch Anniversary event will celebrate the game’s first year.
http://youtu.be/N-nf4nqdZRA
Pretty amazing to see how Overwatch launched, eh?
The Anniversary event runs between 24 May and 13 June and comes with a bunch of new Loot Box items.
Moreover, the title’s GOTY edition, available on 24 May, has also been confirmed, available with the following items:
- 10 Loot Boxes with random items such as credits, skins, emotes, poses voice lines, sprays and highlight intros.
- Mercy’s wings for Diablo 3 players
- Tracer for Heroes of the Storm
- Hero Skins: Vintage skins for Blackwatch Reyes, Strike-Commander Morrison, Overgrown Bastion, Security Chief Phara, and Slipstream Tracer.
- StarCraft 2 in-game Portraits of Bastion, Tracer, Pharah, Reaper, Soldier: 76, and Winston.
- Overwatch-themed Hearthstone Card Back
- Baby Winston pet to use in World of Warcraft
- Overwatch-themed card back for Hearthstone
Finally, Blizzard confirmed that Overwatch will be free-to-play between 27-30 May here in Australia. Progress will carry over into the full game if you decide to purchase it.
Overwatch is currently available on Windows PC, Xbox One and PS4.
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