Overwatch 2’s New York map has Easter egg’s tributes to Jeff Kaplan

Former Overwatch sport director Jeff Kaplan could have left Blizzard Leisure, however his legacy — particularly, a goof about his title — will stay on in Overwatch 2. Throughout a gameplay livestream of Overwatch 2 on Thursday, new sport director Aaron Kaplan, lead hero designer Geoff Goodman, and affiliate artwork director Dion Rogers confirmed off a number of maps coming to the hero shooter, together with New York, Toronto, Rome, and Monte Carlo.

Overwatch’s New York map will embody not one, however two tributes to Kaplan — he received his Grasp from NYU, by the way in which — together with a reasonably dreary trying pizza place named Jephs Nook Pizza.

And lest you argue that that’s clearly an homage to somebody named “Jeph” and never Jeff from the Overwatch crew, right here’s extra proof of the Blizzard’s ode to Kaplan: a espresso cup on a commuter rail practice.

That espresso cup is, after all, a reference to the time that Jeff Kaplan ordered a decaf espresso on the Starbucks positioned on Blizzard Leisure’s Irvine, California campus, solely to be served a cup that learn “Jeph.” Right here’s Jeremy Craig, former lead function designer on Overwatch, with the proof.

Overwatch 2 and Jeph/Jephs/Jeff’s Easter eggs are coming at an unconfirmed date.