Blizzard’s Overwatch anime series takes the story back to the beginning

The first episode of Blizzard Entertainment Overlook 2 animated Miniseries, Genesisis now live and focuses on the earliest days of Overwatch – and the people who were ultimately responsible for the Omnic Crisis.

Episode 1 of Genesis“Dawn” presents the historical events of the Overwatch universe in documentary form, offering a little more backstory on Omnica Corporation scientist Dr. Mina Liao, the creator of Echo. Liao is presented as a robot prodigy and representative of humanity’s arrogance in the world of Overwatch. Not content with making Omnic servants who performed menial, submissive tasks, Omnica Corp wanted to “reach for the stars” to “expand the boundaries of […] perfection.” The result was the all-out war between robots and humans that players have experienced in Overwatch PvE events against Omnic forces.

Mina Liao would co-found Overwatch with Jack Morrison (Soldier: 76), Gabriel Reyes (Reaper), Ana Amari, Reinhardt Wilhelm, and Torbjörn Lindholm, fighting her own creations. In the Overwatch games, Liao is deadwho was killed in an attack on her lab, so don’t expect her to appear in the game – she lives on in Echo in a sense.

But the Genesis animated series can tease details about Overlook 2‘s next hero, expected sometime in August, given the title of the first episode, “Dawn”. The 38th hero to join the Overwatch roster appears to have powers drawn from the sun, an aspect that game director Aaron Keller recently teased in an update partially titled “The Dawn of a New Hero.”