The Overwatch Halloween Terror event is alive

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Junkenstein is back for some more revenge, and there are some new skins, sprays, and other loot to pick up too.

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Halloween is just over two weeks away, but there's no waiting required for the Overwatch Halloween Terror event—it's live today. The three-week festival offers players a chance to score scary skins, evil emotes, and more, and also brings back Junkenstein's Revenge, a PvE brawl that pits four players against Junkenstein, his creations, and his allies.

Players who win three games in a week in Quick Play, Competitive, or the Arcade will earn a new Icon, while six victories will bring a new Spray, and nine a new Skin. Each week—October 15-21, October 22-28, and October 29-November 4—offers new rewards, so you'll want to keep rolling through each week in order to get them all. Blizzard also has some thematically-appropriate loot boxes for sale, filled with new items as well as those from previous Halloween Terror events.

Full details on the Ovewatch Halloween Terror event, which runs until October 31, are up at playoverwatch.com. A new game update also went live today, with bug fixes and character tweaks you can dive into here.

Andy Chalk
Andy Chalk
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Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.