⊙Produced by: Blizzard Entertainment
⊙Genre: FPS ⊙Platform: PC, XBOX ONE, PS4 ⊙Release date: May 24th, 2016

On August 23rd, the new Overwatch Animated Short “Rise and Shine” has been released at Gamescom 2017 in Cologne, Germany.

It has been about a year since the previous release of “The Last Bastion” at Gamescom 2016. The protagonist of this animation is Mei, the tenacious climatologist in Overwatch.

As one of the expedition members at the Antarctic base, Mei is the sole survivor who woke up from 9-year hibernation. She then finds out that the Overwatch team has disbanded, and all members except Mei died from the technical malfunction of the base.

Spending some time in despair, she decides to let the world know about crucial climate information that has been collected during her hibernation, and she looks for the ways to overcome the limited resources and time with her only listening partner, Snow Ball.

The video also shows Ecopoint: Antarctica that has been introduced as one of the Arcade Maps, her weapon Endothermic Blaster, a Mei’s skin that can be equipped in the game, and murloc mug cup that can be purchased in the Blizzard Gear.