The action of Overwatch. takes place in a technologically advanced, highly stylized future earth. In a time of global crisis, an international task force of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities known as Overwatch had come together to restore peace to a war-torn world. After many years, the group’s influence waned, and it was eventually disbanded. Overwatch might be gone now . . . but the world still needs heroes.

With an emphasis on accessibility and pure fun, Overwatch. brings Blizzard’s signature easy-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay to the FPS genre. Harnessing the power of their hero of choice, players will join forces in teams of six and battle each other across a range of futuristic global locations, from the hologram-lit streets of London to a bazaar in the shadows of a high-tech Egyptian pyramid. Every battlefield is iconic and built to highlight each character’s unique abilities, and fights can shift from streets to rooftops to open skies within the span of a breath.

While each hero represents a formidable force on their own, players can amplify their potential by assembling into a well-balanced team and creatively combining powers. No matter which hero or playstyle they prefer, players will be able to team up and accomplish the incredible in Overwatch.

As players compete in matches—win or lose—they’ll level up and earn Loot Boxes, each containing a combination of four items players can use to customize their heroes, including in-game credits and cosmetic goodies including skins, sprays, voice lines, and new animations. Among these items are legendary skins that dramatically alter heroes’ appearances, such as the post-apocalyptic Scavenger D.Va, or Lone Wolf Hanzo, which fills Overwatch’s expert bowman with the spirit of the wild.

Plays.tv launched its Automated Highlights integration with Blizzard’s Overwatch to give players full match replays and an easy to way to share videos for bragging rights.  Along with match replays, every elimination, multi-kill, death, resurrection and Play of The Game in Overwatch will automatically be captured and tagged, appearing on an Annotated Timeline to make it simple for players to find those moments and share them.  Plays.tv’s community of 12 million monthly users have already posted nearly 200,000 Overwatch videos and the new integration will make it even easier for them to capture, edit and share more.

Plays.tv’s Overwatch integration enables players to:

• Watch full match replays to learn from their mistakes and improve their performance
• View their highlights on an annotated timeline which automatically marks their: eliminations, deaths, resurrections, and Play of the Game
• Share any of the highlights to Plays.tv, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and more
• Search through Plays.tv’s huge library of Overwatch videos and sort by match, skill/rank of the player, heroes, eliminations/deaths and more for easy discovery
• Find and follow users and videos based on skill, rank, hero played, and more

“With this Plays.tv integration, Overwatch players now get an easy to use replay system and a simple way to find the best moments from their games and share them” said Dennis Fong, founder and CEO of Plays.tv. “With thousands of Overwatch clips shared daily on Plays.tv, fans will find a near endless amount of entertaining, high-skilled clips for their favorite heroes.”

Just like popular social media platforms, Plays.tv allows players to seamlessly share their best moments through its intuitive interface and easily embeddable video clip-sharing functionality. Plays.tv makes sharing personal gaming highlights easy. With voice and webcam integration, friend list and unique game auto-tagging integration, customizable recording settings and a simple but powerful visual timeline editor.

"Our coaches and players use Plays.tv almost every single day" said Andy Dinh, owner of pro esports group Team SoloMid. “It’s been an indispensable, self-learning tool for our League of Legends team, and I have no doubt it’ll be incredibly valuable to Overwatch players as well.”