Overwatch 2 Pride Event Kicks Off June 1 With New Cosmetics and More

Blizzard has announced a new in-game event is kicking off this week in Overwatch 2! The Overwatch 2 Pride event starts June 1, and as one might expect, this celebrates LGBTQ+ community and inclusiveness regardless of race, gender identification, preference and the like.

The studio will be giving every player that logs in from June 1 with a collection of Player Icons and Name Cards celebrating the event. You can check out the complete list of Name Cards, Player Icons below in the gallery.

Overwatch 2 Pride Event Cosmetics:

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Blizzard has also published a short story for the event, which you can read about here.

For those wondering why now, here’s Blizzard’s explanation:

For those wondering “why now”: we love our characters and their lore, and in expanding the OW2 experience to include the upcoming PvE lore, we realised how much more we can do in exploring our character identities and relationships. With our first Overwatch 2 Pride event, we knew that we wanted to celebrate the diversity that makes the world worth fighting for. This is just the beginning of Pride in Overwatch 2. Over the coming Seasons and years, we’ll have more to share as the deeper lore of the Overwatch universe unfolds.

There is power in ensuring we all feel welcome not only in this game, but in the community that has rallied around it, and through that power we hope every person who ever logs in feels acceptance and comradery with Tracer, Soldier: 76, Baptiste, Pharah, Lifeweaver, and every other hero in unique and personal ways. The world is worth fighting for, and in the words of Lifeweaver, “our strengths mingle” so we are honoured to fight alongside all of you.

If there’s a patch for this event, we’ll let our readers know.

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muchomacho
muchomacho
9 months ago

“Pride month”. Should have the inverse, “Shame month”, for these degenerates.

Cal
Cal
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9 months ago

What the hell is your problem

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