{"id":50650,"date":"2022-06-14T19:31:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/overwatch-2-beta-gets-release-date-sign-ups-open-june-16\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T19:31:11","slug":"overwatch-2-beta-gets-release-date-sign-ups-open-june-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/overwatch-2-beta-gets-release-date-sign-ups-open-june-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch 2 Beta Gets Release Date, Sign-Ups Open June 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The next Overwatch 2 beta officially has a date.  Blizzard announced in a tweet that the playtest will kick off June 28, meaning that fans will be able to get their hands on the sequel in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard&#8217;s tweet reveals that the the beta will include access to the Junker Queen, the new character revealed during Sunday&#8217;s Xbox + Bethesda Showcase, as well as a new map.  Additional details will be released on June 16 along with sign-ups.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Overwatch2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\"># Overwatch2<\/a> Beta begins June 28<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfae PC &#038; Console<br \/>\ud83d\udc51 Junker Queen &#038; a New Map<br \/>\u270b Sign-Ups &#038; more details coming June 16 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XPJOhfeVjE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XPJOhfeVjE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayOverwatch\/status\/1536755605238697984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The new Overwatch 2 beta follows the closed alpha test held back in late April, which saw the series hit peak Twitch viewership.  Since then, Blizzard has announced that the PvP portion of Overwatch 2 will release into early access on October 4 and that it will be free-to-play.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"object-feedback\"\/>\n<p>In development for several years now, Overwatch 2 has gone through several major changes, the most notable of them being the decision to release the game&#8217;s PvP and PvE sections separately.  Overwatch 2 is also reconfiguring team compositions to be 5v5 instead of 6v6 while also retooling its existing roster of heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Lots more Overwatch 2 info will be revealed during the game&#8217;s showcase event on June 16. Until then, keep an eye on IGN for all of the big announcements as the Summer of Gaming continues.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"widget-container\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-862123036 slideshow-preview\">\n<p>Overwatch 2 &#8211; Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase 2022<\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-862123036 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-862123036 hero-image\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-3681891219 aspect-ratio-container aspect-ratio-16-9\">\n<div class=\"jsx-3681891219 aspect-ratio-child\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/output><\/p>\n<p><em>Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat.  Have a tip?  Send her a DM at @the_katbot.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next Overwatch 2 beta officially has a date. Blizzard announced in a tweet that the playtest will kick off June 28, meaning that fans will be able to get their hands on the sequel in less than two weeks. Blizzard&#8217;s tweet reveals that the the beta will include access to the Junker Queen, the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/overwatch-2-beta-gets-release-date-sign-ups-open-june-16\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Overwatch 2 Beta Gets Release Date, Sign-Ups Open June 16<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2022\/06\/11\/ovr-h34junkerqueen-004-relaxed-1654969816169.png?width=1280","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}