Complete guide to Overwatch: UK release date, price and best deals, editions, trailer & more - New Overwatch heroes, maps and features on the way

Overwatch from Blizzard is out now on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and in only a month it has already scored 10 million players. Full details including the Overwatch UK release date, price, deals, gameplay and trailers - complete guide to Overwatch.

Overwatch is the 'shooter of tomorrow' from gaming behemoth, Blizzard, which has made titles including World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Hearthstone. Overwatch is out now on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and in only a month it has already scored 10 million players. Full details including the Overwatch UK release date, price, deals, gameplay and trailers - complete guide to Overwatch.

Overwatch release date UK

Overwatch UK release date: 24 May 2016

After months of waiting, Overwatch was released on 24 May.

Overwatch platforms: Cross-console gameplay could be possible

Overwatch is available for PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and the developer Blizzard is apparently considering cross-platform play for the game. Although PC and console cross-platform play is not going to be a thing (since mixing mouse/keyboard and controller can cause competitive issues), it looks likely that PS4 and Xbox One cross-platform gameplay could be possible at some point in the future.

Overwatch UK price, best deals

Overwatch is available now on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. In only a month the game has already scored 10 million players, which is seriously impressive. You only need to check out the video at the top of this page to learn why, though.

Digital editions of Overwatch Origins are available from the PlayStation Store and Xbox Storeat £54.99, and from Battle.net for PC at £29.99 (standard) and £44.99 (Origins).

You can also buy Overwatch Origins from various online retailers, including Amazon, GAME,ShopTo, Tesco, Argos, Very, Toys R Us, Littlewoods and GameStop. The best deal we found was at Amazon or GAME for £37.99 on PC, or £39.85 at ShopTo on PS4 or Xbox One. 

Overwatch editions

There is a regular Overwatch Edition which is available from Battle.net and costs £29.99. You get early access to 21 heroes.

Origins Edition

The Overwatch Origins Edition includes the above plus five skins (Overgrown Bastion, Security Chief Pharah, Strike-Commander Morrison, Blackwatch Reyes, and Slipstream Tracer) and content for other Blizzard games (Heroes of the Storm - Tracer Hero, World of Warcraft - Baby Winston Pet, StarCraft II Portraits, Hearthstone Cardback and Diablo III - Mercy Wings).

Collector's Edition

If you're willing to pay £99 the Overwatch Collector's Edition include the above, plus a 28cm Soldier 76 statue (approx. 28cm), steelbook DVD case, full colour artbook and the Overwatch soundtrack.

Exclusive items

Pre-ordering any edition at GAME will get you an exclusive metal plate featuring all the Overwatch characters. Meanwhile, Amazon has an exclusive Origins Edition which comes with a 'Memory of War' metal coin and a metal badge bundle.

Overwatch characters list

With 21 characters (or heroes) at launch, Overwatch has a similar feel to a MOBA like Heroes of the Storm. Rather than simply picking a different skin, you'll be able to play a character which suits your style. Here's the full Overwatch characters list.

•    Bastion
•    D.Va
•    Genji
•    Hanzo
•    Junkrat
•    Lúcio
•    McCree
•    Mei
•    Mercy
•    Pharah
•    Reaper
•    Reinhardt
•    Roadhog
•    Soldier: 76
•    Symmetra
•    Torbjörn
•    Tracer
•    Widowmaker
•    Winston
•    Zarya
•    Zenyatta

More characters will be coming soon, alongside new maps and the return of competitive play, confirmed Blizzard on a blog post. Competitive play is the company's priority, although we do not yet know exactly when it will arrive.

Overwatch: Why you shouldn't cheat

Blizzard promised to ban anyone who cheated at Overwatch, and it's held true to that promise: thousands have already been banned, reports Kotaku.

"Users of a popular Overwatch cheat program began reporting bans en masse yesterday, to the point that the program’s creators have shut down authentication servers until they can figure out what to do," it said. And that's just the start it seems, as PC Gamer reports others are seeing bans across multiple copies of the game.