{"id":121845,"date":"2017-11-03T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T08:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121845"},"modified":"2017-11-03T10:51:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T08:51:07","slug":"overwatch-gets-an-esports-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/121845-overwatch-gets-an-esports-overhaul","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch gets an eSports overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has made changes to its shooter title in preparation for the Overwatch World Cup playoffs this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The developer aims to make the game easier to follow and understand for viewers by introducing a new top-down spectator camera, dynamic home and away team colours, and instant replays.<\/p>\n<p>The features will allow viewers to distinguish between teams based on their colour schemes for their clothing.<\/p>\n<p>A behind-the-scenes video on Overwatch\u2019s eSports features is below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AUPExXBfS1s\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/230073-blizzard-mutes-toxic-overwatch-players-on-xbox-live.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Blizzard mutes \u201ctoxic\u201d Overwatch players on Xbox Live<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has made changes to its shooter title in preparation for the Overwatch World Cup playoffs this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":112291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[665,1611,10096],"class_list":["post-121845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-blizzard","tag-esports","tag-overwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}