Activision Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 Hit With Cyberattack at Launch

Activision Blizzard Inc. was hit with a cyberattack on Tuesday, causing wide-scale connectivity issues during the launch of its hotly anticipated Overwatch 2 video game.

Mike Ybarra, president of Activision subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment, tweeted that the company was experiencing “a mass DDoS attack” on its servers Tuesday afternoon. Distributed-denial-of-service attacks, known as DDoS, are when traffic is directed at an organization’s servers that support a website, effectively knocking it offline.

The launch of Overwatch 2 already had long queue times for players waiting to get a chance to play the new game. It had been six years since the ...