Next animated short dated
Blizzard has announced the player count for theOverwatchopen beta and,holy hell, it’s 9.7 million people. For comparison,The Division‘s betabrought in6.4 million players, a record number for a new intellectual property, andStar Wars Battlefront‘s betacame inat 9.5 million participants.
As much as I adoreOverwatchand think it has a bright future ahead of it given the company’s track record, I am surprised by that figure. A few others: open-beta players logged 81 million hours and 37 million matches. We were all desperate for another great team shooter, apparently. The word-of-mouth from the closed beta’s months-long run and the televised commercials certainly helped.
The next animated short, “Dragons,” isprimedfor May 16 at 10:00am, so we won’t have tomake it to out to a theater. It’ll deal with the sibling rivalry between Hanzo and Genji. Have a favorite?
