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
Korkeila, Henry, Steven Dashiell, and Tuomas J. Harviainen. “Gaming Capital on Overwatch’s Official Forums.” Games and culture 20, no. 2 (2025): 171-189.
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 (5)
Overwatch 2 (1)