Overwatch leaks: Sombra design, Halloween brawl teased

Overwatch's upcoming character 'Sombra' detailed in new leaks, also Halloween brawl teased.

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Overwatch is one of the most addictive first-person shooters ever, and now Blizzard are set to inject a little more of that addiction into the game through a new character, and a purported new Halloween brawl. A post on the Overwatch subreddit said that the leak originated from a "Russian OW group".

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Sombra is the new character ready for Overwatch, and it looks like she isn't just part of Blizzard's alternate reality game that's still going on. Images have been plastered all over the internet in popular places like Reddit, Imgur, Gyazo and more, showing Sombra as "one of the world's best and most notorious hackers". The image seems to be from an internal Blizzard site, so we don't know when and where the photo was taken.

The partial description of Sombra teased that she worked with the Mexican Los Muertos gang, as saw saw in Solider: 76's animated short, but her collaboration with the gang was short-lived "until she attracted too much unwanted attention and had to go underground".

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Sombra seems to rock a submachine gun, with some very cool-looking, and sharp gloves.

It looks like we aren't to expect just the introduction of Sombra, but a new gameplay mode that will see Overwatch players defending a castle from "Zomnics and Dr. Junkenstein's evil allies", and will roll up with three difficulties.

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Dr. Junkenstein's purported introduction makes much more sense when we look at the leaked issue of the Overwatch comic book which had some interesting art with a Dr. Frankenstein-inspired version of Junkrat.

Junkrat won't be the only character to feature special Halloween outfits, with Mercy looking to be dressed as a witch, and Reaper as a jack-o'-lantern-wearing wraith, while Roadhog is the Frankenstein's monsterous creation, with Junkrat to arrive as a mad scientist.

We are also looking to see "Halloween loot boxes" soon, as they were spotted on the Xbox Store by some Xbox One owners, which means new skins, emotes, cosmetic items, and more will arrive just before Halloween.

Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan said that he and his team are "active working on more heroes" for Overwatch, and that one of those new heroes is "very far along" and "coming together really well". He teased that the new character "will see the light of day sooner rather than later".

NEWS SOURCE:polygon.com

Anthony joined the TweakTown team in 2010 and has since reviewed 100s of graphics cards. Anthony is a long time PC enthusiast with a passion of hate for games built around consoles. FPS gaming since the pre-Quake days, where you were insulted if you used a mouse to aim, he has been addicted to gaming and hardware ever since. Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with custom-built PCs. His addiction to GPU tech is unwavering and has recently taken a keen interest in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware.

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