{"id":20637,"date":"2016-07-09T13:27:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T12:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ps4pro.eu\/?p=20637"},"modified":"2016-07-10T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T12:29:45","slug":"overwatch-will-receive-a-new-hero-shortly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2016\/07\/09\/overwatch-will-receive-a-new-hero-shortly\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch Will Receive A New Hero Shortly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Blizzard<\/strong><\/em> Entertainment’s popular team-based <em><strong>first person shooter<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Overwatch<\/strong><\/em>, will get a new hero, making the playable characters’ amount 22. But when will this hero join us?<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch roughly one and a half months ago, <em><strong>Blizzard<\/strong><\/em>‘s game had twenty-one playable characters, but the somewhat large cast will be joined by someone else. On <em><strong>San Diego Comic Con<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Blizzard<\/strong><\/em> will host a panel, which is going to be called \u201eBehind The Scenes of Overwatch’s Newest Hero\u201d, and the team will reveal the first official details of Hero #22. <em><strong>Blizzard<\/strong><\/em>‘s <em><strong>James Waugh<\/strong><\/em> (creative development director, story), <em><strong>Michael Chu<\/strong><\/em> (senior designer), and <em><strong>Arnold Tsang<\/strong><\/em> (assistant art director) will host the panel on July 21.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors say that the new hero’s name is going to be Sombra, but we’ll see in less than two weeks what Blizzard has for us to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard Entertainment’s popular team-based first person shooter, Overwatch, will get a new hero, making the playable characters’ amount 22. But when will this hero join us? Since its launch roughly one and a half months ago, Blizzard‘s game had twenty-one playable characters, but the somewhat large cast will be joined by someone else. On San Diego Comic Con, Blizzard will host a panel, which is going to be called \u201eBehind The Scenes of Overwatch’s Newest Hero\u201d, and the team will reveal the first official details of Hero #22. Blizzard‘s James Waugh (creative development director, story), Michael Chu (senior designer), and Arnold Tsang (assistant art director) will host the panel on July 21. Rumors say that the new hero’s name is going to be Sombra, but…<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2016\/07\/09\/overwatch-will-receive-a-new-hero-shortly\/\">Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[3946,26,3944,3945,1502,73],"class_list":["post-20637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-news","tag-arnold-tsang","tag-blizzard","tag-james-waugh","tag-michael-chu","tag-overwatch","tag-san-diego-comic-con"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Overwatch Will Receive A New Hero Shortly - theGeek.games<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"theGeek.games\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2016\/07\/09\/overwatch-will-receive-a-new-hero-shortly\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Overwatch Will Receive A New Hero Shortly - 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