Due to Overwatch being a multiplayer game, developing the overarching story and the background of the characters isn’t quite as easy as single-player games or even MMORPGs where the use of quests can help fill in the blanks. This is why Blizzard has opted to use comics and animated shorts to help tell Overwatch’s story.Now as you might have noticed, there has been a lull in the animated shorts release but fret not because according to Blizzard, these animated shorts will be coming back. This was confirmed by Overwatch’s director Jeff Kaplan during a press event in New York City, where Kaplan said that season 2 was in the works and will be released in the future.
According to Kaplan, “The animated shorts are probably the thing that we have the most fun making. We really love working with our animation group and digging out the stories not tied to any constraints of gameplay — we can tell any stories we want. We plan to tell more of those. We’re hard at work on more of those.”
No word on when exactly the second season will debut, but for fans of the videos, you can rest assured that Blizzard hasn’t forgotten about it. In the meantime Blizzard’s plans for Overwatch’s graphic novel has been cancelled, with the developer explaining that the graphic novel would have limited the game’s universe.