Overwatch Year of the Rooster Event Coming Soon
By Weston Albert 19 January 2017
Overwatch announces its next seasonal event, which will be themed around the Chinese New Year, called Year of the Rooster with glimpses of Mei and D.Va.
Overwatch garnered multiple Game of the Year awards in 2016, and besides its impeccable design, character, and charm, one of the reasons it won so much was Blizzard’s commitment to supporting the game with numerous updates and live events. The last event, for example, was Winter Wonderland, which ran through December for the Christmas holiday.
Some fans recently caught wind of some new voice lines on Overwatch‘s public test realm that led to assumptions that the next event would be around Valentine’s Day. While Overwatch could still get a Valentine’s Day event, there’s another event coming to the game before that would potentially happen. Blizzard has officially announced that Year of the Rooster will be the coming later this month.
Year of the Rooster is themed around Chinese New Year, which for 2017 is, of course, the year of the rooster. The event will start on January 24th, but thus far Blizzard has not revealed when it will end. However, the first tease for the Year of the Rooster event included a new Mei skin:
