Overwatch Anniversary 2022 event dates, remixed Legendary skins announced

Overwatch’s annual Anniversary event, celebrating the sixth year of Blizzard Entertainment’s hero shooter in 2022, goes live on April 5 and will run through April 25. This year’s event will bring back past OverwatchBrawls, challenge missions, and new remixes of popular Legendary skins are offered to players. This includes variant outfits such as Mage Mercy (a white version) and Demon Genji (a white version) of his Oni skin.

April’s Anniversary event will also give fans another chance to earn previously available but time-limited skins, including Nano D.Va, Bastet Ana, and Combat Medic Baptiste, through combat challenges (read: playing the game a lot). It doesn’t appear that next month’s event, which Blizzard is calling Overwatch Anniversary Remix: Volume 1, will include any totally new skins. Blizzard states that there are two additional Anniversary events planned. OverwatchBy 2022

Here’s a look at the six remixed Legendary skins coming in the Overwatch Anniversary Remix: Volume 1 event: Demon Genji, Evermore Reaper, Mage Mercy, Steelhardt Reinhardt, White Cat D.Va, and Zealot Zenyatta.

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Blizzard also announced the start of April’s rotating Arcade brawls, and challenged missions. The following modes will be featured in Week One, April 5-11.

• April 5 – Summer Games
• April 6 – Halloween Terror
• April 7 – Halloween Terror Challenge Missions
• April 8 – Winter Wonderland
• April 9 – Lunar New Year
• April 10 – Overwatch Archives
• April 11 – Overwatch Archives Challenge Missions

Overwatch Anniversary Remix: Volume 1 will kick off with a weekly challenge, during which players can earn Nano D.Va cosmetics if they don’t already have them. Here’s the schedule so far.

Week 1.April 5-11

• Play 9 games – 2 Nano D.Va sprays
• Play 18 games – Nano D.Va player icon
• Play 27 games – Nano D.Va Epic skin

Overwatch’s remixed skins offering for its Anniversary event will likely cause some fuss among players who balked at the meager content offerings for the game’s previous event, Lunar New Year 2022. Blizzard’s lighter release plan is likely a result of the Overwatch team’s focus on Overwatch 2. Blizzard had earlier revealed that the decoupling of PvP/PvE was underway. Overwatch 2In an attempt to have the multiplayer part of the sequel released earlier than expected.

Overwatch 2’s multiplayer portion is currently playable in a private alpha test. Beta testing will open the game to additional players on PC, and is scheduled to begin on April 26.