Following last week’s launch announcement from Blizzard via the game’s official Twitter channel, fans get to check out the latest animated extension of the smash-hit Overwatch — a trio of anime-style shorts titled Genesis, rolling out on YouTube starting today.

Building the popular character origin story shorts, Genesis dives even further back into Overwatch lore, taking fans to the beginning of the great AI insurrection that the FPS heroes are called in to quell.
In part one of the three-part mini-series, titled “Dawn,” Omnica Corp scientists unveil the next generation of Omnics. In this bid to own the future, the scientists are left to wonder if they have solved a problem or created the Omnic Crisis…
It was a technological golden age. Until it wasn’t.