The removal of the pose in question, which applies to the character Tracer, the closest thing Overwatch has had to a mascot, stemmed from a post on the game’s beta feedback forums. A poster by ...

A player in the closed beta criticized the original pose (pictured below) as needlessly sexualized and out of character for Tracer. Game director Jeff Kaplan announced that the creative team was ...

Blizzard Entertainment stepped on a landmine recently when it agreed to replace an “overly sexualized” victory pose for Tracer, one of the heroes in its upcoming team-based shooter ...

In this case, the hero, Tracer, has a “look-over-the-shoulder” pose that has her facing away from the camera and turning back with her gun raised (see above). The pose prompted a complaint ...

The game was a major topic of discussion after fans labeled the butt-centric pose, struck by British time-jumper character Tracer, as sexist – with critics pointing out that the sexualized pose ...

The new pose, as seen above, has Tracer's back facing us at a 3/4 view. This isn't the first case where character in video games has been accused of being overly sexualized, certainly not the ...

While I found the conversation about's Tracer pose over the last week genuinely quite interesting philosophically, the political debate surrounding it has been quite silly and draining.

On today’s episode of Teen Boys And The Things They Love, Overwatch takes the spotlight after game director Jeff Kaplan responds to a thread complaining about the above pose for Tracer.

Following last week's somewhat lively discussion, Overwatch hero Tracer has now seen the victory pose accused of reducing her to "another bland female sex symbol" replaced. Although not directly ...

Over on the game's official forums, a user noticed that one of Tracer's -- more or less the figurehead for the game -- victory poses put her in a position that forum-goer "Fipps" thought wasn't ...

Blizzard has worked hard to overcome that reputation, which might explain why the studio was so quick to address player complaints about one of the victory poses available for Tracer, a hero in ...

The Pose in question, the "Over the Shoulder" Pose for the Tracer character, was said to be on the chopping block in response to a community member's complaint. The controversy arises specifically ...