Overwatch News: Activision Blizzard Update, What I Was Hesitant To Talk About, And More.

Overwatch News: Activision Blizzard Update, What I was Hesitant to Talk about, and More.

Alright, there's a lot going and I want to go over it.

Firstly, Kim 'Alarm' Kyeong-Bo who was a flex-support player for the Philadelphia Fusion passed away on November 7th, 2021 at 20 years old. I was hesitant to address this, but I finally decided to. Here is the message directly from the Philadelphia Fusion.

Secondly, more than 100 Blizzard employees walked out this afternoon. The protest started around 12pm(noon) Pacific Time at the Irvine, California Activision Blizzard facility in protest of CEO Bobby Kotick. It was discovered that Kotick knew about the sexual misconduct claims and did not report the claims to the board of directors. If you are interested in reading more about the walkout, this is my favorite article that I read about it.

Thirdly, and finally, you have 1 week until Cassidy's New Blood Challenge is over; it ends on November 23rd. Here is a link to my previous post on the event if you are interested in the information. If you need a consistent Overwatch twitch streamer to watch to get the drops, I would recommend Emongg. He is an off-tank player who I personally really enjoy watching. He streams almost every day and his D.Va gameplay is awesome.

Anyways, I've been really busy with school, so I haven't had time to go over issue #1 of New Blood. I'll go over it as soon as I can. ~ Nova.

Quick Question: Nail Colors...

So, I wanted to put this in a different post since it isn't Overwatch-related. I just have a question.

The way my county's school system works, I'm not in high school with any of my close friends, so we only really hang out together outside of school. Our winter break is starting soon, so I am going to go get my nails done with a friend of mine. The issue with that is that I have no idea what color I want to get my nails painted and I was wondering if any of you guys do anything like this and have any ideas.

I want to do something Christmas/holiday-related. I was thinking either green and red or white and gold. I don't really want to do anything with blue since that is the color of my nails now, I'll include an image or two of what color I have now for reference; it's a kind of robin egg blue.

So, yeah. Do you guys have any ideas or recommendations for colors or color combinations?

With all that being said, I hope you have a good week and for anyone else that is finishing up school this week, I hope you are having a good time and get whatever you are doing done! ~ Nova.

I understand if people don't like the name because of what the name is, I get, that's just your opinion on the name itself. With that being said, if you are unhappy with the name because it was changed, I really encourage you to read this.

A BTS behind the name change, updated information about the Blizzard Entertainment scandal, and I would encourage you to read the whole Tweets.

Overwatch Events: Clown Roadhog

Alright, it's week 3 of the 2021 Halloween Event, so it's time to get the creepy skin. For the rest of the week(today - Nov. 2), you will be able to get the skin by playing enough games to get 27 points(2 pts for a win, 1 pt for a loss). Good luck, I'm going to need it...

Overwatch Events: End of Cassidy's New Blood Challenge

Alright, just thought I would put this reminder out here, Cassidy's New Blood Challenge will be ending tomorrow, as of the time I am writing this, which is November 23rd!

By playing 9 games, you will get the Sandstorm Player Icon. You will win the Old Friends spray by playing 18 games. Finally, you will win the Sandstorm Cassidy skin by playing 27 games. Also, by watching up to 6 hours of Overwatch streamers, with drops activated, you get 6 sprays. If you want to look more into the info, here is a link for that.

Anyways, I should be posting about New Blood issue #1 soon with it being the long Thanksgiving weekend and all. I was hoping to get it out sooner, but I've school's been keeping me busy, so sorry for that! Hope you have a good rest of the week, and for anyone else celebrating Thanksgiving, have a good Thanksgiving! ~ Nova

McCree has been Renamed: Cole Cassidy

Alright, the Overwatch Team announced McCree's official name now to be Cole Cassidy. The name change will be implemented on October 26th. His name in the hero gallery will be Cassidy.

I actually really like this name change, especially the last name change. Cole is a fine first name, but I think having Cassidy being his last name is pretty cool. I would assume that it is inspired by Butch Cassidy who was a famous train/bank robber and gang leader from the Old West as well as Hopalong Cassidy who was a fictional cowboy created by Clarence M. Mulford in 1904(If you are interested in learning about either here is the link for Butch Cassidy and Hopalong Cassidy). Both people probably were some of the original inspirations for Cole Cassidy.

Anyways, sorry for not posting at all since the start of the Halloween Event. It's the end of the first quarter for me, so I have kind of been bombarded by homework. With that being said, I just want to remind anyone who sees this post that we only have about 3 more days to get the Einherjar Zarya. ~ Nova.