Weekly Recap: New Overwatch Character, Xbox Game Pass, Project Scorpio Comments

It's the weekend again! Here is a roundup of the week's big stories and some you might have missed.

The Big Stuff:

After a lot of teases, Blizzard officially announced the next Overwatch hero, Orisa, this week. Read GameSpot's previous coverage here to learn all about her. [Full story]

Microsoft made a huge announcement this week when it revealed Xbox Game Pass, a Netflix-like service for Xbox One that gives you access to a library of 100 games. It arrives this Spring. [Full story]

Xbox boss Phil Spencer made some new comments about Project Scorpio this week, discussing (at a high level) its price point and suggesting that there might be a pre-E3 reveal event. [Full story]

The Other Stuff:

An unreleased Die Hard game that was in the works for Nintendo 64 has been found. Really. Get the full story here at Kotaku.

JK Rowling had some magical news to share with her Twitter followers this week, teasing a picture of what looks like the script for Fantastic Beasts 2.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates did a Reddit AMA this week, his fifth. He talked a lot about humanitarian efforts with his Gates Foundation--but that wasn't all. You can read the full AMA here.

Funcom's MMO The Secret World is being "relaunched" this year, the publisher announced its its earnings report. NeoGAF has a breakdown of the news.

Here's a song from the Prey soundtrack, as composed by Doom's Mick Gordon. Sounds good!

Developer The Chinese Room has announced a new game--and it sounds pretty cool!

This past week at the Game Developers Conference, Square Enix showed Final Fantasy XV running on PC tech--but this doesn't mean it's confirmed for PC. More details here at PCGamesN.

Whoa. Here's something cool. Also at GDC this week, Gearbox showed off its tech demo for Borderlands 3. Bear in mind that this is just a tech demo, but it looks rad. See the art here at NeoGAF.

Have a wonderful weekend!