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Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Watch: 'Overwatch 2' announces collaboration with 'Street Fighter'
May 9 (UPI) -- Blizzard Entertainment has announced that Overwatch 2 is collaborating with classic Capcom fighting game series Street Fighter. Overwatch's Juno dresses up as Street Fighter's Chun-Li and proceeds to destroy a truck in the clip released on Friday. Eight Overwatch 2 characters in total will be receiving Street Fighter skins. Fans can also look forward to Hanzo as Ryu, Kiriko as Juri, Sigma as M. Bison, Soldier 76 as Guile, Widowmaker as Cammy, Winston as Blanka and Zenyatta as Dhalsim when the collaboration comes to Overwatch 2 on May 20. Overwatch 2 is a competitive, online multiplayer game. Overwatch 2 recently had a collaboration with anime Gundam Wing. Capcom last released Street Fighter 6 in 2023. New character Elena will be coming to the game on June 5.
Forbes
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Overwatch 2' Gets Some Genuinely Great ‘Gundam Wing' Themed Skins
Mercy from 'Overwatch 2' gets the Gundam Wing Zero treatment. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Gundam Wing, Overwatch 2 has released four new Legendary skins from both Gundam Wing and Endless Waltz. Specifically, the four mobile suits represented are the Gundam Wing Zero, Gundam Epyon, Gundam Deathscythe Hell and Tallgeese. These being reskins of Mercy, Ramattra, Reaper, and Soldier: 76 respectively. Unlike the Call of Duty collaboration with Gundam a while back, which pretty much had players cosplay as mobile suits, these new Overwatch 2 skins have been handled far more competently. While these are still reskins of characters, the visual styling is far more mechanically inclined, and that sells it far better. This is in no small part due to how the Overwatch series has its own anime-infused and inspired art style to begin with, so this kind of anime crossover naturally works well. I am just pleasantly surprised that these mecha actually look decent and seem to fit the game, too. Gundam Wing is also a formative anime in the West, as it was one of the first to be given a proper international release. It's not one of my favorite alternate timeline Gundam shows, as I always found it overly melodramatic, but that's just me. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder That said, I reviewed the Blu-ray box sets for both the TV series and OVA a while back. You can also still watch both Gundam Wing and Endless Waltz on Crunchyroll. Follow me on X, Facebook and YouTube. I also manage Mecha Damashii and am currently featured in the Giant Robots exhibition currently touring Japan.
Forbes
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Gundam Wing' Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary Today
'Gundam Wing' is now thirty years old. A fan favorite outside of Japan, Gundam Wing celebrates its 30th anniversary today. Released on April 7, 1995, in Japan, Gundam Wing was another alternate-timeline Gundam show, specifically that of the After Colony timeline. It dealt with a team of Gundams piloted by teenage boys sent to Earth to free the colonies in orbit from Earth's tyrannical dominance. It was also one of the first times Gundam came Westward in a big way, as Gundam Wing was released on Cartoon Network's Toonami on March 6, 2000. While the anime itself was very popular, due to the limited availability of the tie-in model kits, the series wasn't able to build momentum. This aspect of the media mix is something that has been rectified in the decades since, and why multiple modern Gundam anime series tend to do far better in the longterm outside of Japan. The production team behind Gundam Wing was also noteworthy, with veteran mecha designer Kunio Okawara handling much of the mobile suit design, alongside Hajime Katoki and Junya Ishigaki. However, it notably featured character designs by Shuko Murase, who would later go on to direct the anime movie adaptation of Gundam Hathaway. While I personally found the original Gundam Wing series overly melodramatic, with the OVA sequel Endless Waltz having questionable mecha designs, I can see their appeal and how they managed to capture new anime fans' attention at the start of the noughties. These days you can watch Gundam Wing over on Crunchyroll, and play with the various mobile suits from the series in games like Gundam Extreme Versus Maxiboost ON. Endless Waltz was also recently featured in Super Robot Wars X. So even though Gundam Wing is now three decades, it still feels suitably current, if still a tad melodramatic. Follow me on X, Facebook and YouTube. I also manage Mecha Damashii and am currently featured in the Giant Robots exhibition currently touring Japan.
