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Overwatch Origins Edition is Blizzard Entertainment's huge offering confirmed to hit Xbox One, PS4, and PC on or before June 21, 2016. It appears that fans are a matter of months away from getting their hands on this new title. Three new characters have also been introduced including full details on their abilities and power.

This latest reveal is officially announced via Blizzard's Battle.Net website with posted an epic Overwatch ad indicating that the developer's next title be arriving in console versions other than PC version. Those who place a pre-order will get a Noire Widowmaker skin when the game debuts in Spring 2016 or as the developer puts it, 'on or before June 2016'.Notedly, it is a day just before the start of summer of next year. As confirmed, Overwatch is not a free-to-play game.

The developer has also introduced the 3 new characters namely, Mei, Genji, and D.Va and released full details on their fighting skills as well as abilities as game's protagonists, as reported by Game Ranx:

• Mei-Ling Zhou- is a Chineses descent scientist who once operated out of Xi'an, China was attached to Overwatch. She's a climatologist who owns abilities that let her control the cold such as Endothermic Blast, Cryo-Freeze, and Ice Wall. Her ultimate power is Blizzard, meaning, can freeze up those who can't bear with it for a long while.
• Genji Shimada- is a 35 year old cyborg based out of the Shimbala Monastery in Napal and was once connected to the ninja Shimada clan and Overwatch. His abilities include shuriken, deflect, and swift strike. With the use of his ultimate power called 'dragonblade', he can unleash his katana in a snap like a killing blow to enemies in sight.
• D.Va, - is a 19 year old also known as Hana Song who was an ex pro-Starcraft gamer but converted her skills to mech piloting and is affliated to the mobile exo force of the Korean army. She appears to be a unbeatable choice as her abilities include fusion cannons, boosters, defense matrix that can fire projectiles out of the air, and when she comes out of her mech, she can use the light gun ability. Her ultimate abilities are self-destruct and call mech which can let her summon a new mech when the old one is destroyed to return to the fight.

Overwatch Origins Edition is Blizzard's latest offering for Xbox One, PS4, and PC gamers coming out in spring 2016 at a base price of $40. Also, pre-orders are now up at various online game retailers like Game Stop. .