Overwatch Chinese New Year 2020, Release Date of Rat Lunar Year and Latest Skins

Overwatch Chinese New Year 2020 events are about to happen, the developer Blizzard goes for the Christmas Celebrations to 2020 Chinese New Year events.

Chinese Overwatch developer team is ready about holding its yearly Chinese New Year event, only a few weeks expelled from its Christmas spectacle. Celebrations for the Rat Year, the Overwatch Lunar New Year occasion for 2020 is coming to Xbox One, PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch very soon.

While the developer Blizzard is yet to make an official declaration, fans have a really smart thought about what's in store dependent on earlier years. The celebrations for actual Chinese New Year start officially on Saturday, January 25 - which is under about fourteen days away.

With Overwatch occasions starting on Tuesdays or Thursdays, the Year of the Rat tie-in could start as ahead of schedule as Thursday, January 16 at 6pm UK time. If there's no indication of the event on Thursday, at that point it will in all likelihood start on Tuesday, January 21 at 6pm GMT.

Obviously, Blizzard could toss a significant curve and event can be released before that point, so for further information stay tuned.

Date of Overwatch Lunar New Year Event:

• Chinese New Year 2020 - January 25 (Year of the Rat - Overwatch Lunar New Year event set to start on January 21

• Chinese New Year 2019 - February 5 (Year of the Pig) - Overwatch Lunar New Year Event started on January 24

• Chinese New Year 2018 - February 16 (Year of the Dog) - Overwatch Lunar New Year Event started on February 8

• Chinese New Year 2017 - January 28 (Year of the Rooster) - Overwatch Lunar New Year Event started on January 24

The event of Chinese New Year will harmonize with the arrival of new and returning regular things. These things could include voice lines, Emotes, and limited-time Sprays and in addition a Lunar New Year skins. It's the ideal opportunity to open any event skins you may have missed from earlier years, for example, Fortune Mercy, Firework Junkrat, Rooster Bastion, and General Brigitte. 

New skins will be uncovered in the development to release, so incoming Overwatch, check for the new outfits. 

For event duration, Lijiang Tower is also expected to get a makeover, while there's an indication that we'll see another Competitive Capture the Flag mode.