Overwatch hero 27 in the spotlight as the teasing begins

It was this time last year Blizzard began teasing Overwatch hero Orisa, and the tease-mobile is in action once again. We presume we're building up to the reveal of Overwatch hero 27 (which tallies with Blizzard saying it was "well along the path on hero 27" at the turn of the year) and we could know their identity officially by the end of next week if Blizzard is sticking to a similar timeline to Orisa's unveiling from 2017.

What we've had so far is an official Overwatch tweet containing a report written by character Ana about an old Overwatch mission where the gang were ambushed and Torbjorn lost his arm. We also had a follow-up letter by Torbjorn to his wife, but it's Ana's report people are talking about.

They're talking about a name contained within it - the name Emre Sarioglu. Emre is Turkish male name, and Sarioglu was on the Overwatch mission to Istanbul in Turkey alongside Reinhardt, Torbjorn and Ana. Sarioglu was a Private First Class, which is a fairly low rank.

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