New #Overwatch Skin Contest Winners 🏆
The fan-made skin contest has ended, with five winning entries featuring Wrecking Ball, Shion, Doomfist, D.Va, Jetpack Cat, Domina, Ana, Junker Queen, and Juno.
Some of these skins will release globally in the future 👀
Anime just lost a legend whose work quietly connected generations of fans. 🕊️
Veteran animator, character designer and animation director Kenichiro Katsura has passed away at 59 while undergoing treatment for an illness.
Across more than four decades, Katsura worked on everything from classic anime to modern hits, sometimes designing entire casts and other times helping bring individual scenes to life.
Some of his notable works included:
- Macross 7 — character design / animation direction
- Knight’s & Magic — character design / chief animation director
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime — chief animation director
- SYNDUALITY Noir — character design / chief animation director
- Ranma ½ — key animation
- Magic Knight Rayearth — key animation
- Date A Live II — key animation
- Blue Lock Season 2 — key animation
- Gintama: The Movie 2026 – Yoshiwara in Flames — animation director
- The Fruit of Grisaia — chief animation director Anime
and many more!
From Ranma ½ and Macross 7 to Blue Lock and Slime, Katsura’s career became a bridge between different eras of anime.
His family’s final request was beautifully fitting: remember the characters and drawings you loved, and someday watch his work again.
The animator is gone, but thousands of frames carrying his hand will keep moving.
Rest in peace, Kenichiro Katsura. 🤍
New #Overwatch Balance Changes 🛠️
General:
→ Global hitscan projectile sizes reduced.
→ Hero hit volumes adjusted across the roster.
🐰 D.Va
Micro Missiles:
→ Fire rate increased from 11 to 14 shots per second.
🦾 Domina
Crystal Charge:
→ Cooldown reduced from 8 to 7 seconds.
Reconstruction (Passive):
→ Ability lifesteal increased from 75% to 100%.
🐽 Roadhog
→ Reworked.
🧢 Bastion
Reconfigure:
→ Duration reduced from 6 to 5 seconds.
🤠 Cassidy
High Noon:
→ Now prevents attaching to Jetpack Cat’s Lifeline.
💥 Emre
Cyber Frag:
→ Cooldown reduced from 10 to 9 seconds.
🐲 Genji
Swift Strike:
→ Damage increased from 50 to 60.
Dragonblade:
→ Damage reduced from 110 to 100.
→ Swing speed increased by 15%.
🔺 Shion
Rapid Reload (Minor Perk):
→ Removed.
Survival Instinct (Minor Perk):
→ Added.
→ Evade’s overhealth duration is increased by 1 second.
👾 Sombra
→ Reworked.
💉 Ana
Groggy (Minor Perk):
→ Removed.
Local Anesthetic (Minor Perk):
→ Sleep dart explodes on impact, slowing enemies and dealing 45 damage over 3 seconds.
🦇 Doctrine
General:
→ Ultimate cost increased by 8%.
Invigorating Drones:
→ Attack Speed reduced from 35% to 30%.
Shrouded Momentum:
→ Cooldown increased from 7 to 8 seconds.
→ Damage reduction reduced from 50% to 40%.
→ No longer is critical immune while active.
Deliverance:
→ Drone Fire Rate increased from 4 to 5.
→ Overhealth and debuff duration reduced from 8 to 6 seconds.
→ Decay duration reduced from 5 to 4 seconds.
Transfusion (Major Perk):
→ Damage and healing conversion rate reduced by 50%.
🐸 Lúcio
Sound Barrier:
→ Duration increased from 5 to 6 seconds.
Beat Drop (Minor Perk):
→ Amp It Up is now active for 4 seconds after casting Sound Barrier.
What do you think of the changes? 💭
Closer Look at Unvaulted Battle Passes in #Overwatch 🎫
Unowned legacy passes will cost 1000 Overwatch Coins, with Seasons 1-15 available at launch. Once activated, you can progress them alongside the current season.
Mythic Prisms, Coins, and titles are excluded.