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Blizzard Announces Overwatch, a First-Person Shooter
Today at Blizzcon, Blizzard announced its first new franchise in 17 years: Overwatch. It's a first-person shooter, a type of game Blizzard hasn't made before. It seems to be based on team deathmatch combat, with a number of characters/classes that all have different abilities. The beta test will start sometime in 2015 (you can sign-up here at the official site, unless it gets crushed by traffic). Game director Jeffrey Kaplan (a.k.a. Tigole) said one of their big goals is to make it an approachable game in a way shooters often aren't. A cinematic trailer is available, as is a gameplay trailer. Blizzard has set up stations for players at Blizzcon to play Overwatch this weekend, so more details will be coming soon.
A Mac is a PC and Overwatch will be released for OS X just like basically every other Blizzard game.
The D3 auction house is no more. A failed experiment, put in the grave, and the progenitor shuffled off to a lower position. The other things GP listed are not PtW. You're paying for cute visuals or for the privilege of skipping the 10 hour tutorial called level 1-89.
+9001 insightful. As much as I miss the days of doing a 180 degree turn in 1/4 a second to head-shot, with my scout, someone trying to knife me, I now jump into CS and find myself dead most of the match. This also reminds me of the days of Quake Death Matches with grappling hooks enabled. I have no idea how I used to do so well other than a lot of practice.