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A few days back, two new Overwatch League franchises, Toronto Defiant and Atlanta Reign unveiled their official names and colors. Many would point out how their decisions to go with red and black is akin to school kids copying each other's work without making it so obvious. But the similarities stop there. Upon revealing their rosters - or at lea...
Two new cities. Two new franchises. Two new names. Two colors. As opposed to Team Paris' roster reveal a few days earlier, two new Overwatch League franchises went the opposite direction in their announcements; revealing their official names and colors but not a hint of the players who will be representing them. The team based out of Atlanta will b...
The 2018 Overwatch World Cup is still a few weeks away but you can now gear up with the teams' colors as the official jerseys are now on sale. Produced by the same company that prints the official Overwatch League jerseys - Intotheam - all jerseys from the 24 countries which competed in the four qualifying stages are now available for purchase. Sta...
Reigning Overwatch League Champions London Spitfire earlier today confirmed the transfer of their Support Main, Won-sik "Closer" Jung to the Dallas Fuel. Today we bid farewell to one of the most hard-working players, and one of the best teammates that one could ask for. @Closer was a key part of our success in winning the #OWL2018 title and we ...
Despite their CEO claiming that they won't be fielding an all-Korean roster; We will not be fielding an all kr roster. — Ben Spoont (@benspoont) September 5, 2018 the Florida Mayhem has picked up three new recruits in preparation of the upcoming Season 2 of the Overwatch League. In a tweet released by their official Twitter account a few ho...
As we have anticipated in the Overwatch pro level scene, there will be some significant changes taking place for the second season of the Overwatch League. This is moreso now with the addition of eight new teams, alongside the fact that all teams will be based out of their home cities. The league recently released a plethora of information which w...
We are about a day away from Overwatch's Halloween Terror event for this year and over the weekend, Blizzard unveiled three more skins which will be available during the limited duration of said event. Widowmaker gets the weakest treatment of the three, with a spider-themed Epic skin which we doubt we'd be seeing a lot since there are tons of other...
The Chinese Taipei team has been disqualified from the Hearthstone Global Games tournament for cheating after being found guilty of stream sniping during their 5-4 win over Team Singapore yesterday. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Colc_MSgIJ8&w=560&h=315] As reported by InvenGlobal, video evidence showed the Chinese Taipei team com...
Overwatch's yearly Halloween-themed event, Halloween Terror returns this 9th October with a potentially new mode set at the Widowmaker's home, Château Guillard. Teased by the official Overwatch Twitter account last night, not much was revealed but our guess is that it'll be another PvE, defending several points style of play ala Blackwatch ev...
As expected, we got no surprises from the Paris Stage of the 2018 Overwatch World Cup Qualifiers as hosts France and England stuck to the script and qualified through what may be the most boring of the four qualifying stages this year. Like clockwork, the heavily stacked French setup made quick work of everyone else, losing only two maps over the w...
While us at Kakuchopurei don't do cosplay, we do love our games and movie props, especially those 1:1 replicas which look good in hand, as well as on the shelf. So it came as no surprise that we are super stoked with Blizzard's unveiling of the Ultimate Genji Sword which is now available for pre-order. My blade is ready to be unleashed! Pre-orde...
The Overwatch League personnel merry go round continues as more team announcements and player movements were made. A few days back, to the *cough* shock of many, the San Francisco Shock announced the departure of their DPS main, Dante "Danteh" Cruz to the Houston Outlaws via trade for GG Esports Academy main tank player Yoo ‘Smurfâ€...
With Destiny 2's latest expansion Forsaken already out, it's time for old Guardians burnt by Destiny 2 to jump back into the fray. Bungie promised, and it delivered somewhat, but you're not sure what the new changes are. Let Kakuchopurei help you out. First, we'll dish out the basics... Keep Your Old Weapons The new random roll system means that...
The Bangkok Qualifier for the 2018 Overwatch World Cup kicks off today as six more teams vie for two playoff spots at this year's BlizzCon. After two earlier stages which saw host countries South Korea and United States joined by Finland and Canada respectively, the Thailand stage appears to be the hardest one to call yet, with at least five of the...
The rumors are true and we will see 20 teams duke it out globally come Season 2 of the Overwatch League. As confirmed by the league's official Twitter account last night, eight teams, with three of those being from mainland China will join Paris, Toronto, Washington, Atlanta and Vancouver will be part of the new extended Overwatch League family. W...
The Seoul Dynasty shocked the Overwatch League scene today when they announced the release of three players, including two-time OGN APEX and Overwatch World Cup winner Jin-hyuk "Miro" Gong getting the axe. Joining Miro are Support main Gi-do "Gido" Mun and DPS Seok-woo "Wekeed" Choi. We at #SeoulDynasty would like to thank Go...
It was a crazy day on the Overwatch League transfer newsfront as a number of players say goodbye to their respective teams. With teams aiming to improve on their first season performances, it didn't come as a surprise how some teams opted to start afresh in a bid do better in Season 2. So it didn't come as a surprise to see the Shanghai Dragons rel...
(Updated 03/09/2018) With the inaugural season of the Overwatch League firmly behind us, the scene moves on to the transfer period where teams are able to sign and release players in preparation for Season 2. With the start date of Season 2 still unconfirmed, here are the details we know so far regarding player movements: August 1st: Teams are allo...
You've seen it in the animated short, salivate on the prospects of owning that D.Va Nano Cola skin and guess what? Now you can! Starting today, Blizzard is rewarding players in-game items related to D.Va in a variety of ways. First up - and the most straightforward of it all; just play Overwatch and win games. Win nine matches on any mode (Qui...
There are tons of Overwatch news this week and since us folks at Kakuchopurei.com are also swamped - being in Jakarta for the Asian Games, we decided to compile everything under one roof for a quickfire, bite-sized (but still informative) Overwatch roundup. New Cinematic! Yes we reported this earlier in the week; Blizzard just released their ...
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