Overwatch Halloween skins: First designs revealed following 2017 event news

Overwatch news this week has been dominated by the announcement that the official Halloween Terror event is returning.

Blizzard confirmed earlier this year that they planned to bring back most of the seasonal events from last year, the first being the Summer Games.

This will be followed by the Overwatch Halloween event, which will arrive on October 10.

It has now been confirmed that all the spooky goings-on will end on November 2, neatly before the start of Blizzcon 2017.

More details are expected closer to the event, with Blizzard currently only providing a short teaser on Twitter.

“The nights grow cold And monsters appear, A great evil gathers and Halloween draws near…,” the teaser reads.

Blizzard also shared the first of the new Overwatch Halloween skins which will be added to the game this year.

McCree and Reaper are both featured wearing new Halloween costumes, although more will likely be added alongside last year’s selection of outfits.

With the return of the Summer Games, the old skins introduced last year were made available at a slightly cheaper price.

Classic Summer Games skins cost 1,000 credits, instead of the 3,000 credits it usually takes to unlock limited Legendary skins. The new skins were sold at 3,000 credits.

New Summer Games 2017 cosmetic items were also priced at 3,000 for Legendary Skins, 750 credits for Epic skins, 225 credits for Rare tier items and 75 credits for common tier items.

That’s compared to returning Legendary skins at 1,000 credits, 2016 Epic skins for 250 credits, last year’s Rare tier items for 75 credits and 2016 Common tier items for just 25 credits.

Another part of today’s teaser was a picture of Dr. Junkenstein, so fans can expect the return of the special brawl mode too.

Last year saw the release of Overwatch’s first-ever co-op PvE Brawl, bringing a nice horde mode alternative to proceedings.

Players were given the chance to team up with three others and face off against a host of enemies, including Dr. Junkenstein himself, Junkenstein’s Monster, the Reaper, a mysterious witch, and host of shambling zomnics.

The special seasonal brawl could also see some changes, with the possibility of a competitive mode being added.

There’s also a big chance that Blizzard will add a new map for the horde mode, much like they did with the returning Lucioball earlier this year.