As a thank you lot to its many players, the team at Blizzard has created an Overwatch anniversary trailer. The footage celebrates the game by taking a look back at its first yr.

In its cursory history,Overwatchhas managed to achieve quite a bit. In the trailer, get a glimpse of the game's launch direct from inside Blizzard HQ during the moment Jeff Kaplan and the team open the servers for the outset time. Later some backside-the-scenes footage from early development, the video begins reviewing features added to the game through patches and events over the twelvemonth.

This tour of Overwatch's by begins with the introduction of Ana, the first hero added postal service-launch, and ends with the game'southward most recent event, Uprising. The trailer finishes up with a large thanks to players and an official proclamation for anOverwatchCeremony event that will begin May 23, a day before the game'due south original launch date, and end June 12.

Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of details on the event itself, outside of dates. Thanks to some recent datamining, however, nosotros know the anniversary event loot boxes will possible incorporate more than 100 new cosmetic items. In that location was too bear witness of new maps, or variations of existing maps, institute in the data as well.

Fans ofOverwatch have been anticipating an anniversary result for some fourth dimension, which has led to enough of wild speculation. That, combined with the contempo datamining, led some to believe the event would begin yesterday, until Blizzard permit the community know an official annunciation would come beforehand.

Now, the announcement is here with but a week abroad until the consequence. And while the Overwatch anniversary video is more than of a retrospective than an event trailer, players now know its coming. As a one yr anniversary is always a big occasion, the upcoming event could exist the biggest i yet. And then save up those credits, heroes, and await some truly legendary ceremony skins.

Overwatch is available now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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