Keep an eye on your emails for an invite
You can finally play Blizzard Entertainment’s hero shooter follow-upOverwatch 2from today, two and half years sinceit was announced. Well, you can if you signed up to the first closed PvP beta and satisfy Blizzard’s conditions enough to receive an invite, that is. Blizzardconfirmed in a tweetthat emails with instructions on how to access the game will start firing out from 11am PDT/7pm BST to those who opted in to the beta at theOverwatch site. You can still sign up as of now, too.
Blizzard have ahandy dandy FAQdetailing exactly how to register for the beta, along with info like regional availability and system requirements. Anyone who’s chosen in the first batch should get access to the beta today, but Blizz say they may send out more invites further down the line, so if you’re interested then it’s still worth opting in. Just remember that you need to own the originalOverwatchand have it installed to be able to play the beta, even if it’s just the free trial.
Overwatch 2 introduces a new hero, Sojourn, and reworks several others, asJai detailed last month. There’s a Beta Bash livestream on thePlayOverwatch Twitch channeltomorrow at 11am PDT/7pm BST showing off both Sojourn and thenew 5v5 teams. Another way to land beta access is to link your Twitch and Battle.net accounts for Twitch Drops and watch Overwatch 2 beta streams from the channels listed on Blizzard’s site. Overwatch 2 hasplenty more betas yet to comeso don’t fret if you miss nabbing access to this one.
Activision Blizzard are still contending withlegal issuesandreportsalleging a discriminatory and harassing working environment. The Overwatch team tried to distance themselves from some of this when theyrenamed McCree in October. This year, Microsoft has acquired the company for$69 billion(£50 billion) and Blizzard Entertainment head Mike Ybarra has said he’scommitted to fostering change. There still seem to be a fair fewongoing staff welfareconcerns at Actiblizz, though.
