Overwatch’s 2022 Anniversary event arrives in April with ‘remixed’ and returning skins

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Overwatch’s annual Anniversary event, celebrating the sixth year of Blizzard Entertainment’s hero shooter in 2022, goes live on April 5 and will run through April 25. This year’s event will bring back past Overwatch brawls and challenge missions from previous seasonal events, and offers players new, remixed versions of fan-favorite Legendary skins. That includes variant outfits like Mage Mercy, a white version of her popular witch outfit, and Demon Genji, a white version of his Oni skin.

April’s Anniversary event will also give fans another chance to earn previously available but time-limited skins, including Nano D.Va, Bastet Ana, and Combat Medic Baptiste, through combat challenges (read: playing the game a lot). It doesn’t appear that next month’s event, which Blizzard is calling Overwatch Anniversary Remix: Volume 1, will include any totally new skins. Blizzard says that two more Anniversary events are planned for Overwatch in 2022.

Here’s a look at the six remixed Legendary skins coming in the Overwatch Anniversary Remix: Volume 1 event: Demon Genji, Evermore Reaper, Mage Mercy, Steelhardt Reinhardt, White Cat D.Va, and Zealot Zenyatta.

Blizzard also outlined the first week of rotating Arcade brawls and challenge missions coming in April. Week one, which runs April 5-11, will feature the following modes:

Overwatch Anniversary Remix: Volume 1 will kick off with a weekly challenge, during which players can earn Nano D.Va cosmetics if they don’t already have them. Here’s the schedule so far.

Week 1: April 5-11

Overwatch’s remixed skins offering for its Anniversary event will likely cause some fuss among players who balked at the meager content offerings for the game’s previous event, Lunar New Year 2022. Blizzard’s