Sometimes, all you want in life is an opportunity to hang out and talk shit. With Overwatch voice actors.

After more than a decade of expansion cycles, Blizzard is changing their approach to World of Warcraft. Step one? Take players to a new planet.

Shortly before BlizzCon, the people behind recently shut down World of Warcraft legacy server Nostalrius put Blizzard on notice. "If Blizzard doesn't make an announcement to honour their own core values, be sure that we will," they wrote. BlizzCon's come and gone, and true to their word, the Nostalrius folks made a big announcement. They're bringing it back.

Professional competitive gamers are often derided as fake athletes. After all, who could possibly compare sitting in front of a computer screen mashing buttons on a keyboard and mouse to running several miles on a soccer pitch or ramming into the linesman opposite you play, after play?

Overwatch's Play of the Game feature is iconic as it is infamous. On one hand, it gives big moments a few seconds of fame and encourages friends and foes alike to say, "OK yeah, that was pretty cool." But it goes against the grain of Overwatch's team focus, and it misfires. A lot.

So that was a bloodbath, to put it mildly. Kind of like an Overwatch tournament finals brought to you by Quentin Tarantino. Perhaps South Korea was favoured going into this match-up, especially after their triumphant march up through the rest of the bracket. But no one expected Russia to lose so easily, much less roll over and die.

Although competitive StarCraft is in decline, Blizzard is still trying to breathe some new life into its decades-old RTS series. During the company's keynote presentation yesterday at BlizzCon 2016, Blizzard's president, Michael Morhaime announced, announced new co-op missions and a new co-op commander would be added to the game on November 22. More unexpectedly, he also said that the company would be partnering with Google's DeepMind project to make StarCraft II a new frontier of competitive gaming AI research.

Announced today at BlizzCon 2016, the Overwatch League is a professional gaming organisation modelled after traditional sports organisations, complete with regional teams, baseline minimum salaries and benefits.

Sombra is basically the Overwatch version of the DDOS script kiddies who bring down services like Steam and PSN. She takes crap you rely on, she breaks it and then she disappears. In the right hands, I think she's gonna be devastating.

After a long and protracted ARG, the wait is finally over for Overwatch fans. Blizzcon is just around the corner, and with it the (probable) reveal of new hero, Sombra. And just ahead of the annual convention, the first official art has been found.

Ana is everybody's favourite Overwatch sniper mum, and what better way to show off those motherly instincts than by telling Genji to gtfo when the ninja pop's in uninvited.