Blizzard announces new Overwatch map release date

Blizzard would just like to make sure no one forgot about Overwatch in all the E3 excitement. As if we would ever.

The past several days have been a whirlwind for video game fans as the biggest companies and publishers in the industry showcased their plans for the future at E3 2017.

Just like every year, an absurd number of trailers were shown for upcoming 2017 and 2018 games and they were in every genre imaginable. From the slate of games the industry is working on, there will truly be something new out there for everyone.

Blizzard did not have a press conference at E3, opting perhaps to share all of its future plans during its own BlizzCon later in the year. But Blizzard couldn’t help releasing a trailer-esque video of its own on Tuesday to announce the release date of Overwatch‘s newest game map, Horizon Lunar Colony.

First announced last month, Horizon Lunar Colony (no relation to Horizon Zero Dawn) is where Winston grew up. One of the animated shorts Blizzard created prior to the game’s release was about a young Winston on that same lunar base spending time with a scientist named Dr. Harold Winston.

In this new behind-the-scenes Overwatch video, the developers describe how settings from that animated short were faithfully carried over to the new map. But it’s not exactly the idyllic place that young Winston lived anymore. The gorillas that were being experimented on in the lunar base revolted and took over the colony, and this conflict has been visually manifested on the new map.

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One interesting tidbit the developers revealed about Horizon Lunar Colony is the fact that characters will experience low gravity when on it, just as you would if you were on the moon. This means that jumps will be higher than normal and characters will have more aerial hang time as they come back down to the ground. It’ll be interesting to see how this change effects gameplay, if at all.

Horizon Lunar Colony is an assault map and comes to Overwatch on June 20.