What can Overwatch teach us about Blizzard?

Overwatch is a game that only exists because Blizzard failed. The upcoming shooter rose from the ashes of the canceled MMO Titan, and it's heading to consoles and Windows PC next year.

Last weekend at BlizzCon 2015, we learned a lot more about Overwatch. Today on Polygon Minimap: Worldmap Edition, Polygon's managing editor, Mike McWhertor, tells us all about it, from what its three new characters are like to play to what it tells us about Blizzard as a games maker.

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WORLDMAP STORIES

• BlizzCon 2015: The latest on StarCraft 2, Hearthstone, the Warcraft movie and more
• Overwatch won't be free-to-play, special editions coming in 2016
• Blizzard's Overwatch coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, launches spring 2016