Overwatch’s next hero is Sigma, a scientist who controls gravity

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Blizzard has revealed the 31st hero to join the ranks of Overwatch. Yesterday, the company released a short animated trailer that showcased Sigma, a Dutch astrophysicist who underwent a dramatic event that left him with the ability to control gravity. “Gravity is a harness,” Sigma says in the trailer. “I have harnessed the harness.” Following yesterday’s clip, today Blizzard fully unveiled Sigma through a first-look livestream on Twitch. And the character has something of a dark backstory. Here’s how the developer explains it:


Sigma is a kind and brilliant scientist who has been irreparably changed by an experiment gone wrong, gaining the ability to manipulate gravity in the process. During that tragic experiment Sigma sustained serious...

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