{"id":1102477,"date":"2026-01-27T08:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1851744303"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:49:02","slug":"even-marvel-rivals-seasonal-events-are-overwatch-knock-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/even-marvel-rivals-seasonal-events-are-overwatch-knock-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Marvel Rivals&#8217; Seasonal Events Are Overwatch Knock-Offs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/even-marvel-rivals-seasonal-events-are-overwatch-knock-offs.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Look, I know half the conversation around <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/marvel-rivals-review-hero-shooter-overwatch-netease-1851717975\">Marvel Rivals<\/a> is taken up with comparing it to its obvious inspiration, Overwatch 2, but sometimes it\u2019s hard to talk about much else when developer NetEase continues to copy Overwatch 2\u2019s homework and makes little effort to hide it. 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Not only does this hold true when you\u2026 Read more&#8230; Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1102478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[16151,16152,11073,8915,6627,1434,521,15305,6578],"class_list":["post-1102477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kotaku","tag-fist","tag-lucio","tag-marvel-rivals","tag-multiplayer-online-games","tag-multiplayer-video-games","tag-netease","tag-overwatch","tag-transmedia-storytelling","tag-windows-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Even Marvel Rivals&#039; Seasonal Events Are Overwatch Knock-Offs | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Look, I know half the conversation around Marvel Rivals is taken up with comparing it to its obvious inspiration, Overwatch 2, but sometimes it\u2019s hard to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/even-marvel-rivals-seasonal-events-are-overwatch-knock-offs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Even Marvel Rivals&#039; 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