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Thanks to NetEase Games’ renewed partnership with Blizzard Entertainment, the latter game publisher was finally able to bring back its multiplayer games like World of Warcraft and Overwatch 2 to China this year. However, an interesting consequence of this collaboration is that NetEase now has a reason to play both sides in the hero shooter genre.

Overwatch 2 announced that it would be returning to the Chinese region right at the beginning of the year, with NetEase and Blizzard coming to a new agreement for a contract which would allow players to access the game again. But now NetEase has not just one but two hero shooters on its hands—although that doesn't seem to be too much of an issue.