Overwatch (also referred to as Overwatch 1) was a 2016 team-based multiplayer first-person shooter game by Blizzard Entertainment. The game was first released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in May 2016 and Nintendo Switch in October 2019. Cross-platform play was supported across all platforms. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Staat, David, Günter Wallner, and Regina Bernhaupt. “Towards a Community-Based Ranking System of Overwatch Players.” In International Conference on Entertainment Computing, pp. 309-319. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Tomkinson, Sian, and Benn Van Den Ende. “‘thank you for your compliance’: Overwatch as a disciplinary system.” Games and culture 17, no. 2 (2022): 198-218.
Research that includes this game in its sample
Hawreliak, Jason, and Amélie Lemieux. “The semiotics of social justice: a multimodal approach to examining social justice issues in videogames.” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 41, no. 5 (2020): 723-739.
Newham, Thomas, Nicolas Scelles, and Maurizio Valenti. “The Consequences of a Switch to Free-to-Play for Overwatch and Its Esports League.” Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15, no. 11 (2022): 490.
Other games in the franchise
Overwatch (4)
Overwatch 2 (1)