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See how the war and Overwatch started in anime short

Blizzard takes a look at what would happen if an AI became "too human".
Eirik Hyldbakk Furu Editor-in-Chief Norway 13 July 2023

Overwatch's first anime short showed why and how Dr. Mina Liao created Aurora, the first omnic to achieve sentience, and now it's time to learn what happened next.

Part two of the Genesis series is called Innocence, as starts by showing how the scientists and world reacted when they learned Aurora was sentient before diving into Anubis starting the omnic crisis and the founding of Overwatch.

Editor-in-Chief Norway Eirik Hyldbakk Furu wrote for Gamereactor from around 2015 to 2026, first as news editor and from 2022 as editor-in-chief of the Norwegian edition. He covered video games across news, previews and reviews for both the Norwegian and international sites.
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