Overwatch 2 collab with LE SSERAFIM brings K-pop girl group to BlizzCon

Event will feature in-game items and mode inspired by the group

Marco Wutz | Oct 18, 2023

Overwatch 2 collab with LE SSERAFIM brings K-pop girl group to BlizzCon /

League of Legends has long had success by embracing K-pop into its community and it looks like Blizzard wants to follow suit with a K-pop collaboration in Overwatch 2. Overwatch 2’s first musical crossover event will feature LE SSERAFIM, a rising name among South Korea's many girl groups.

This collaboration coincides with the release of the quintet’s next music video, which is going to be launched on October 26, 2023, for its newest single, Perfect Night.

Following that on October 30, 2023, details will be revealed on the special game mode and items featured during the in-game event. Among these will be legendary hero skins inspired by the five members of the group, Kim Chae-won, Sakura, Huh Yun-jin, Kazuha, and Hong Eun-chae.

Overwatch 2 poster promoting K-pop group Le Sserafim. — LE SSERAFIM are coming to Overwatch 2 / Blizzard

The collab event itself will begin on November 1, 2023, and LE SSERAFIM will perform live at BlizzCon on November 4, 2023.

Due to Blizzard’s connections to esports like StarCraft, Warcraft, and Overwatch, which often were heavily dominated by South Korean players, the country’s culture always had a special appeal for many fans of the developer – and the same can be said for Riot Games and League of Legends.

LE SSERAFIM debuted in May 2022, quickly rising through the ranks. Aside from Korean, they have recorded Japanese versions of several of their songs. Perfect Night, which will come out this October, will be their first English-language song.

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Published Oct 18, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg