The Phantom Thieves are making their move in Overwatch 2 with the game’s latest collaboration, live tomorrow, 16th September through 30th September. The collaboration will feature a themed event hub, challenges, Easter eggs, and five new Legendary skins, including…
- Wuyang as Joker
- Mercy as Panther
- Lifeweaver as Fox
- D.Va as Queen
- Genji as Skull
Dion Rogers, Art Director, shared the following thoughts on the collaboration:
- “We included lots of fun artistic touches in this collaboration. For instance, there are elements of Mercy’s Panther skin that are inspired by Carmen – like rose petals falling from her wings – while the Xuanwu Staff that Wuyang uses as Joker is meant to visually evoke Arsène. The Heroes even leave paint splashes when they move!”
- “The collaboration event hub itself uses those signature menu visuals that we all know and love, plus some phenomenal key art that guest artist Shigenori Soejima was kind enough to create for us. There’s also a different Phantom Thieves-inspired UI overlay when you hover over the Shop icons for the skins, which is the first time we’ve done anything like that for a collaboration.”
Aimee Dennet, Associate Director of Product Management, added her own perspective:
- “The Overwatch 2 dev team has a ton of huge fans on it, and we were able to pour that passion into some cool details that might not be obvious at a glance. For instance, part of the reason we chose Wuyang for our Joker skin is that they were both in school when they were recruited to their respective groups, so they have similar origins in that respect. We also have a bunch of Easter eggs for players to find, including the entrance to a very familiar location on some of our maps.”
