The stage is set. Five weeks after Gritty led the Philadelphia Fusion out to their season kickoff match against London, the Stage One Playoff field is now locked in stone. See below for the final standings of Stage One: Heading into the Playoffs, the Vancouver Titans have supplanted the NYXL...

What a weekend. Another Stage Playoff spot has been clinched, and an amazing Map 5 has thrown the rest of the playoff picture in the tumbler. It won't stop spinning until next weekend, when five teams will come out into the Playoffs. For now, let's see who set themselves up for better and for worse...

Eight expansion teams are not the only thing Overwatch League, or OWL, began including this season. Especially last week, this season has seen a lot more trash-talking between teams. OWL commentator, MonteCristo, gave this brief summary: While not every trash-talking moment has been equal...

Three weeks down in the Overwatch League means two things: we are now past halfway through this stage, and the Stage Playoff Picture is about to get a whole lot clearer. To no one's surprise, the NYXL officially clinched their ticket this weekend by beating the Toronto Defiant, 3-1, on Friday, and...

As covered yesterday, Overwatch is getting a new hero in Baptiste, the Haitian combat medic. What I did not get to cover, however, are the rest of the official patch notes that went up onto the PTR with Baptiste. There is a lot to process and analyze here: 14 of the total 30 Overwatch heroes were...

If this young year's Overwatch calendar feels kind of wonky, it's because it really is. Even before February actually started, Blizzard launched the 2019 Lunar New Year event on January 24th, put a new map (Paris) on the PTR January 30th, ended the Lunar New Year event on February 18th,...

In an absolutely bonkers ending, one of the longest and painful streaks in professional sports ended this week. The cover photo was actually from last year, but it captures the fanbase that today's first winner has had even during their disastrous first season. Conversely, teams that made strong...

The long wait is over. Last year's great new thing in the Overwatch League is back with a vengeance. One weekend of play is in the books, and while it's too early to call the end of the season with 100% accuracy, there still some pretty notable winners & losers outside of what the standings...

How Donny Cates Has Brought Punk Rock to the Marvel Universe Say goodbye to the thrash metal of Jason Aaron and the polite sensibilities of Brian Michael Bendis, it is time for the punk rock era of Marvel to begin. Donny Cates unique brand of style and bombast has been infecting the dark corners...

How Netflix’s new experience undermines the player. *This article contains spoilers for the Netflix Black Mirror episode Bandersnatch* Bandersnatch, Netflix’s Black Mirror interactive experience is quite the bit of technical wizadry, but ultimately left me feeling disillusioned with the...