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Kaan Serin

Marvel Rivals' success is actually "really great" for Overwatch 2, and the FPS's director says the "pressure" that Blizzard feels is mostly "internal"

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Off the back of Marvel Rivals' mammoth launch, Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller is welcoming the competition since the storied hero shooter has "never really" been confronted with "another game that's so similar to the one that we've created" - meaning the Blizzard team is no longer "playing it safe."

Overwatch 2 has been the genre lynch pin for well over a decade at this point, with competitors like Concord and Battleborn falling off a cliff, but that all changed when NetEase, err, borrowed some of Blizzard's best ideas and licensed Marvel's ever-popular superheroes. The Overwatch team have never really been on their back foot this whole time, so how are they feeling now?

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