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Overwatch Animated Media
Blizzard Entertainment released several computer-generated cinematic trailers and teasers, as well as animated shorts, to promote and develop the story for their 2016 first-person shooter video game, ''Overwatch''. The shorts have been met with positive reception from fans and online publications alike. Plot and setting ''Overwatch'' is set in a fictionalized version of Earth, sixty years into the future; the Overwatch organization was established thirty years prior to this future setting. These pre-game events are also chronicled by Soldier: 76 in his origin story video. The story of ''Overwatch'' begins with the in-universe "Omnic Crisis" event; the event's cause is unknown. However, prior to the event, humanity developed omnics, artificial intelligence (AI) that led efforts in creating global economic equality and manufacturing. These AI bots were soon developed by omniums, large facilities designed specifically for their creation. Eventually, the world's omniums began produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse, Inc. by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham. The company originally concentrated on the creation of game ports for other studios' games before beginning development of their own software in 1993 with games like ''Rock n' Roll Racing'' and ''The Lost Vikings''. In 1993, the company became Chaos Studios, Inc., and eventually Blizzard Entertainment after being acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates. Shortly thereafter, Blizzard released '' Warcraft: Orcs & Humans''. Since then, Blizzard Entertainment has created several ''Warcraft'' sequels, including highly influential massively multiplayer online role-playing game ''World of Warcraft'' in 2004, as well as three other multi-million s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Nakauchi
Paul Nakauchi is an American actor known for voicing Hanzo Shimada in ''Overwatch'' (2016) and Shadowsan in ''Carmen Sandiego'' (2019). Career In the 1990s, he guest starred in ''Knots Landing'', ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (in the episode "The Homecoming"), '' Batman: The Animated Series'' and '' ER''. He lent his voice to the video games '' Diablo III: Reaper of Souls'', '' Call of Duty: World at War'', '' Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain'', '' Tomb Raider: Legend'', ''World of Warcraft'', ''Lost Planet 2'', and '' Dead or Alive: Dimensions'' (as Gen Fu). His most productive role to date is in ''Overwatch'' as Hanzo Shimada. Nakauchi played Sgt. Shigeno in the motion picture, '' The Great Raid''. Nakauchi has also appeared in the Broadway musicals ''Chu Chem'' (1989) and ''The King and I'' (from 1996 to 1998). He starred in the Broadway Asia production of ''The King and I'' as King Phra Meha Mongkut. Nakauchi voiced the character "Hutch" in the animated comedy drama film, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cara Theobold
Cara Louise Theobold (born 8 January 1990) is an English actress who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her first acting role was Ivy Stuart in the third and fourth series of television period drama ''Downton Abbey'' and is also known for voice acting as Tracer in the video game ''Overwatch''. Life and career Theobold was educated at Outwood Grange Academy before attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She initially auditioned for the ''Downton Abbey'' role of Ivy over Christmas 2011, during her final year. She was allowed to finish her final year of drama school early to begin filming the series at Easter. Theobold characterised Ivy as "ambitious" and "a dreamer". She returned for the fourth series of the show in 2013. Her work on the series resulted in her being a co-recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. In 2014, Theobold made a guest appearance on the TV sitcom '' Lovesick'' (forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracer (Overwatch)
Tracer is the alias of Lena Oxton, a fictional player character, playable character who appears in ''Overwatch'', a franchise centered around first-person shooter, first-person hero shooter video games developed by Blizzard Entertainment. Tracer was first seen in the 2014 Overwatch animated media, ''Overwatch'' Cinematic Trailer short. She was introduced as a playable character in an April 2016 update for the crossover multiplayer online battle arena game ''Heroes of the Storm'', nearly a month prior to the release of the first ''Overwatch (video game), Overwatch'' game. She appeared again in ''Overwatch 2'', a 2022 sequel to the original game. The character, who is of British people, British origin, has been noted by video game outlets to be peppy and energetic. In the game, Tracer has low health, but is highly mobile with her skills including a teleportation-like ability and time-travel. Those abilities were caused by an accident that left her unable to maintain a physical for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Silverstein
Keith Silverstein is an American voice actor, known for lending his voice to English Versions of Japanese anime and video games, affiliated with Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Viz Media, Studiopolis and Funimation. He is best known for his roles as Johan Liebert in '' Monster'', Vector the Crocodile in the '' Sonic the Hedgehog'' video games, Robert E.O. Speedwagon in ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', Hisoka in the 2011 version of ''Hunter × Hunter'', Ōgai Mori in '' Bungo Stray Dogs'', Ulric, Brute, and Rascal in '' Glitter Force'', Gabriel Agreste a.k.a. Hawk Moth (Shadow Moth in season 4 and Monarch in season 5) in '' Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir'', and Zhongli in ''Genshin Impact''. Personal life Silverstein has been married to Rosemary Do since October 10, 2010. They have two daughters. Filmography Anime * '' 86'' – Ernst Zimmerman * '' Accel World'' – Red Rider (Previous Red King) * ''A.I.C.O. -Incarnation-'' – Susumu Kurose * '' Attack on Titan (season 4)'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolina Ravassa
Carolina Ravassa (born 15 June 1985 in Cali, Colombia) is a Colombian actress and producer. A performing arts graduate from Boston College and New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, Ravassa is best known outside of Colombia for her voice over work in television series and video games, most notably Sombra from the video game ''Overwatch'' and Raze in ''VALORANT''. Life and career Ravassa grew up in several countries, spending her childhood between Colombia and the US, and is therefore fluent in 4 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. She was interested in acting from a young age and her first role was in a local production of ''The Sound of Music'' in which she played Gretel. She studied in Spain and Italy, and was then inspired by the power of socio-political change through Theatre of the Oppressed with Augusto Boal in Brazil. She was educated at Boston College, receiving her Theatre Arts degree, as well as undergoing a year of acting for film/TV at the New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sombra (Overwatch)
Sombra is a fictional character in the ''Overwatch (video game), Overwatch'' universe, a 2016 video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. In the game's narrative, she is an exceptional black bag operation hacker from Mexico that had joined Talon, a criminal organization aligned against Overwatch. In game, Sombra has stealth-based abilities to move around the battlefield, and is able to hack any opposing character to briefly prevent them from using their special abilities. Sombra was the second new character to be added to ''Overwatch'' after launch, and was introduced formally during the November 2016 BlizzCon event. However, she had been designed and tested internally well before the game's launch, and Blizzard had established an alternate reality game that began within ''Overwatch''s Open Beta, open beta in 2016 that teased her character. Though Blizzard considered the alternate reality game to have drawn interest in Sombra, they found the prolonged campaign taxed player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Tatasciore
Fred Tatasciore (; ) is an American voice actor who has provided voices in animated and live-action films, television shows, and video games. He is known for voicing the Hulk and Beast (comics), Beast in various Marvel media and Solomon Grundy (character), Solomon Grundy in various DC media. Other characters he has voiced include Yosemite Sam, Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes), Taz, Soldier: 76, Shao Kahn and Kakuzu. Career He is known for portraying characters with deep and powerful voices, though in recent years has expanded his range. He has voiced the Hulk in multiple Marvel Comics, Marvel projects, including ''Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2'', ''The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' and ''Avengers Assemble (TV series), Avengers Assemble''. His best known video game roles include Damon Baird in the ''Gears of War (series), Gears of War'' series, List of Mass Effect characters#Saren Arterius, Saren Arterius in the ''Mass Effect'' series, Characters of StarCraft#Zeratul, Zeratul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Ferguson (voice Actor)
Keith Ferguson (born February 26, 1972) – A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information. is an American voice actor. He is known for his voice work as Bloo from ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'', Basch fon Ronsenburg from ''Final Fantasy XII'', Marluxia from ''Kingdom Hearts'', Lord Hater from ''Wander Over Yonder'', Lord Saladin from ''Destiny'' and ''Destiny 2'' and Reaper from ''Overwatch''. He also provides a number of sound-alike portrayals, including Harrison Ford as Han Solo and Indiana Jones on ''Robot Chicken'' and Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen in the ''Cars'' franchise. Career After studying theatrical performance and creative writing at the University of the Pacific and University of Southern California, Ferguson worked behind the scenes in day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucie Pohl
Lucie Pohl (born April 15, 1983) is a German actress and stand-up comedian. Pohl is the daughter of theater director and singer Sanda Weigl and the actor and dramatist Klaus Pohl. She is sister of writer Marie Pohl and cousin of actress Anna Thalbach. She is also a relative of Bertolt Brecht. Pohl is the voice actress for the hero Mercy in the video game ''Overwatch''. She featured in the ''Red Dwarf ''Red Dwarf'' is a British science fiction comedy franchise created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, which primarily consists of a television sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following. T ...'' episode "Twentica" as Harmony de Gauthier. Filmography Film Television Video games Stand-up *''Hi Hitler'' (2014) *''Cry Me a Liver'' (2015) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pohl, Lucie German women comedians 1983 births Living people German film actresses German television actresses German video game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercy (Overwatch)
Mercy is a fictional player character developed by Blizzard Entertainment for their ''Overwatch'' franchise. She was introduced at launch in their 2016 first-person hero shooter video game of the same name and again appeared in its 2022 sequel, ''Overwatch 2''. Mercy has also featured in its related animated and literary media. Lucie Pohl voices Mercy in English-language ''Overwatch'' media. Within the ''Overwatch'' narrative, "Mercy" is the callsign of Swiss doctor Angela Ziegler, who provided key medical support for the original Overwatch group. In-game, she is a Support class character who can heal and buff teammates and resurrect fallen teammates. The character is one of the more popular in the game, being noted by Blizzard to be the most played support character during the game's beta. However, her resurrect ability has been criticized in competitive and professional play levels, given the swing in momentum the ability creates. Her gameplay mechanics have undergone var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mei (Overwatch)
Mei (; or in Taiwan), full name Dr. Mei-Ling Zhou (), is a fictional, playable character appearing in the 2016 video game ''Overwatch'', a team-based first-person shooter developed by Blizzard Entertainment. Outside of ''Overwatch'', Mei also appears in related media, as well as a playable character in the crossover multiplayer online battle arena game ''Heroes of the Storm''. She is a Chinese climatologist and adventurer from Xi'an, China. Mei is voiced by Chinese voice actress Yu "Elise" Zhang in both the English and Chinese language releases of ''Overwatch''. Development and design Mei was first announced in October 2015 at BlizzCon; along with D.Va and Genji, she was one of the last heroes who was introduced into ''Overwatch'' prior to its official release. At the beginning, Blizzard wanted to design a hero who used frost to battle. At that time, the nationality of this hero was not decided yet, but the designers once thought to set the hero as a Canadian. Later, being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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