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Overwatch Celebrates the Year of the Rat in Trailer for Lunar New Year Event


After the Winter Wonderland event, Overwatch is ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year for 2020. With the Year of the Rat incoming, Blizzard has dropped a new teaser giving us new skins, emotes, and highlight intros.

Ring in the new year on the objective! For a limited time, celebrate with your favorite heroes in the 2020 Overwatch Lunar New Year event and earn new skins, emotes, highlight intros, player icons, sprays, and more. Plus, play limited-time game modes, including the new-for-2020 brawl: Capture-the-Flag Blitz.

As always, the new skins look fantastic, and out of the seven, my personal favorites have got to be Sombra's Face Changer ad Brigitte's Opera. We also have two new emotes with Bastion and Hanzo, and only one new highlight intro for Junkrat which puts him overeating right next to Roadhog.

Besides the new cosmetics, we'll also be seeing the return of the Capture the Flag event. We know that the game has been having a hard time balancing out a CTF game mode, but it is teased that this version will be made new for 2020.

You can check out all the new things here.

Though Overwatch is set to have a sequel come out soon, it looks like support for this first game is going to last for a while. After all, it did only come out in 2016. You'd think that they would wait for a bit longer before giving us a follow-up. Heck, World of Warcraft came out in 2004 and that's still alive and kicking.

The Lunar New Year event for Overwatch is now live and ends on Feb. 5.

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