Overwatch Chinese New Year event start time: Year of the Rooster to go LIVE after leak
OVERWATCH fans can expect new Year of the Rooster skins and lots more as part of the Chinese New Year event update, which now has a start and end date.
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Liam Martin
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13:20, Tue, Jan 24, 2017
| UPDATED: 13:21, Tue, Jan 24, 2017
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Overwatch Chinese New Year of the Rooster event
UPDATE: Overwatch fans should check out the Chinese New Year of the Rooster trailer and screens while they wait for the start time.
With the Year of the Rooster event about to kick off later today, a leaked Overwatch trailer showcases the Chinese New Year skins, sprays and capture the flag game mode.
The Overwatch Chinese New Year trailer also reveals the end date for the event, which expires on February 13.
ORIGINAL: The Overwatch Chinese New Year event is about to kick off on PS4, Xbox One and PC.
The Overwatch update goes live on January 24, although Blizzard is yet to reveal the exact start time for the Year of the Rooster event.
However, based on previous Overwatch events, UK fans can expect the update to drop at around 7pm.
The Chinese New Year Overwatch event will introduce new skins, and is also likely to contain a limited-time game mode.
Express Online will update the story when start times are announced. In the meantime, check out the leaked Overwatch skins, sprays and more below:
Overwatch Chinese New Year of the Rooster event Skins, Sprays and more
Sun, January 22, 2017
Overwatch is holding a Chinese New Year event and adding new Legendary Skins to celebrate the Year of the Rooster on January 24.
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Overwatch Chinese New Year of the Rooster
The new Overwatch Year of the Rooster Event was announced last week by Blizzard.
A short announcement video was posted on Twitter, and was accompanied with the following caption: “Good luck and great fortune await!”
The brief trailer sees Mei sporting a new Overwatch skin. A separate teaser was released with D.VA in other territories.
A Valentine's Day event was also expected, but Blizzard has seemingly ruled this out.
Reddit dataminers discovered new voice lines in the latest PTR update.
The voice lines all involve chocolates, as Genji asks Hanzo if he has any chocolates today. In another clip, Genji tells Mercy that he has some chocolates for her.
With Overwatch events seemingly taking place every other month and with Valentine's Day lending itself to a themed event, it makes sense that this would be the next big content drop.
However, Blizzard is yet to make any official announcement, and previously seemed to rule out Valentine's and Easter events.
There most recent comment, via the Overwatch page, was simply: "No Valentine's event."
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