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Overwatch's next hero appears to be just on the horizon as some big discoveries are being made over on the Overwatch Discord server. Sombra, the supposed 23rd hero of Overwatch has been hinted at in the past couple of trailers with hidden codes, and single frame flashes of images, but it just got kicked into high gear with the discovery of this horrifying monstrosity.

Basically if you look up into a specific portion of the sky on Dorado in a certain place, at a certain time, there will be slight artifacting that becomes clearer when you drop out the contrast. This has created all sorts of speculation and testing from the community which someone nicely summarized in this info graphic.

Very interesting developments that I hope mean that the next hero will be right around the corner, the summer games event ends Aug 22nd so I'm assuming the new hero announcement will be released some time soon after that. Although it may also be possible that unlocking Sombra requires the completion of the ARG, which is a scary prospect considering how complicated it has already been up to this point. Either way This is definitely making me more interested in Overwatch again.

Well, that's that then...

I have suddenly found myself in the market for a game in which the numbers continue to increase, and I remembered that on a recent UPF or Bombcast Jeff was talking positively about one, but I can't seem to find it or the video in which he mentions it. Can anyone help me out?

I should have expected that the punchline this whole gag was hinged on Dan and Jeff's relentless expectation that everyone on the site has an encyclopedic knowledge of wrestling bullshit like they do.

No matter what the reality of all this turns out to be, I am super happy that Dan is getting out of San Francisco. I wouldn't wish for even my worst enemy to have to live there. I'm pretty sure it is lower on my "places to live" list than goddamn Detroit at this point.

Overwatch is barely mentioned by by publications and forums? I'm interested to know what internet you spend your time on because I have seen no less than 3 articles about the new hero and patch from EVERY review site, and a gif or post from the Overwatch subreddit makes it to the front page literally every day. It is also consistently in the top 5 games on Twitch. If it's not for you then that's fine, but don't be delusional.

mmm, still a bit too much for me...

I really like it. I didn't play Last Hope, so I'm not sure if this is new for the series, but it moves extremely fast for an JRPG. Within the first few minutes you get your first quest, and are put on a somewhat linear journey that gives you just enough time to learn all the mechanics, and then within the first 2 hours you have a fairly decent set of unique areas that you can travel around to and do a bunch of side quests in. Also there are no cutscenes, all character dialogue initiates very naturally by just walking up to people in the environment. Same thing with battles, while walking around you can simply initiate a battle seamlessly by just attacking them and there are no transitions in or out of battle. It feels very natural and immersive. The only downside is the characters which are all blatant cookie cutter generic tropes, but I have always enjoyed the Star Ocean twist of mixing fantasy and Scifi so the story is comparatively really engaging for me and has kept me going. I'm about 30 hours in now, and it is a solid 4/5 for me.