Overwatch lead writer leaves Blizzard after 20 years

Overwatch lead author Michael Chu is leaving Blizzard Leisure. Chu announced his departure on Wednesday after 20 years on the studio.

Chu was a significant contributor to Overwatch’s lore and ongoing story exterior of the sport. His writing credit at Blizzard embrace Diablo 3, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and the in-development Overwatch 2. Chu penned origin tales for a lot of of Overwatch’s characters and fleshed out the universe by means of comics and quick fiction items. He was a outstanding workforce member at occasions like BlizzCon, the place Chu appeared on panels associated to Overwatch’s story and improvement.

Two of Chu’s tales, the Ana quick fiction piece “Bastet” and Tracer comedian “Reflections,” acquired a large amount of consideration for revealing Soldier: 76 and Tracer’s respective sexual identities.

Michael Chu

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“Overwatch has been a life-changing expertise,” Chu wrote on his personal website. “I’ve at all times felt that video games and the tales they inform have the distinctive capability to convey individuals nearer collectively, and that the empathy you are feeling from entering into another person’s footwear, even just about, can bridge the hole between miles, cultures, and nations. Overwatch and its persistently beneficiant and provoking neighborhood have solely strengthened that perception. I’ve heard tales of individuals studying a brand new language after listening to a line of dialogue, individuals feeling impressed to make a journey to a brand new place after ‘visiting’ it in-game, and folks assembly teammates throughout languages and borders to take up the reason for making our world a greater place. However most of all: many times, of individuals empathizing with a narrative about somebody who isn’t the identical as them.”

Blizzard is at the moment creating Overwatch 2, which is able to function a story-driven marketing campaign along with the primary recreation’s multiplayer. Overwatch 2 doesn’t but have a launch date.

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