Overwatch has come leaps and bounds since its original launch in 2016, adding multiple new heroes, modes and stages to the vanilla experience.Įarning 4.5/5 in our review, we had this to say: ‘Overwatch remains one of the most compelling and experimental shooters in the world right now. This timeline shapes out, since we’d expect another hero reveal amongst other surprises at BlizzCon 2019 this November in Anaheim.

Sigma arrives roughly five months after Baptiste, the last playable hero to grace Blizzard’s popular hero shooter. While not yet unveiled, we imagine this will play a big part in his in-game abilities and eventual dripfeed of lore in comics, cinematic shorts and other such things. This also left Sigma with handy superpowers, such as the gift to manipulate gravity at a moment’s notice. “Sigma is a kind and brilliant scientist who has been irreparably changed by an experiment gone wrong.” During the experiment, he received “serious psychological damage” and was quickly locked away in a secure government facility. His origin video describes Sigma as an “eccentric astrophysicist” whose unusual state is a result of an experiment concerning a black hole gone terribly wrong. After a handful of creative leaks and teases, Blizzard Entertainment has announced Sigma, the next playable character coming to Overwatch.

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