Get five festive Overwatch loot boxes for free until January 1

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Crates contain items from the Winter Wonderland event.

Overwatch players can unwrap a late Christmas present if they log into the game before January 1. Blizzard has stuffed everybody's stockings with five free loot boxes, which in real money would cost £3.99/$4.99. 

The crates will contain a selection of the 150 items from the Winter Wonderland event. What you really want is one of the seven holiday skins—there's one each for Ana, Bastion, Junkrat, Sombra, Hanzo, Soldier 76 and Roadhog. 

The Ana one is my favourite: there's something about that never-blinking owl face that strikes terror into the opposing team.

I haven't actually played Overwatch in December, but these free loot boxes seem like a decent excuse to jump in and play a few rounds. I'll probably have a go at the seasonal Yeti Brawl too, which pits five Meis against one particularly angry Winston on a reskinned Nepal map.

And if you want to see what all the fuss is about, Overwatch is half price (£16.99/$19.99) until January 2.

Samuel Horti
Samuel Horti

Samuel is a freelance journalist and editor who first wrote for PC Gamer nearly a decade ago. Since then he's had stints as a VR specialist, mouse reviewer, and previewer of promising indie games, and is now regularly writing about Fortnite. What he loves most is longer form, interview-led reporting, whether that's Ken Levine on the one phone call that saved his studio, Tim Schafer on a milkman joke that inspired Psychonauts' best level, or historians on what Anno 1800 gets wrong about colonialism. He's based in London.