Blizzard previously confirmed it would be removing references to other former Blizzard employees from its titles, including nods to former Diablo 4 game director Luis Barriga and former World of Warcraft designer Jonathan LeCraft. "The cowboy he was rode into the sunset, and Cole Cassidy face the world at dawn".Ĭassidy isn't the only Blizzard character to be renamed in light of the ongoing California lawsuit, of course. "To make this new Overwatch better - to make things right - he had to be honest with his team and himself," Blizzard continues. But in every cowboy's life, there comes a time when he has to stop and make a stand." "Running from his past meant running from himself, and each passing year only widened the divide between who he had been and what he had become.
"The first thing a renegade loses is their name, and this one gave up his long ago," Blizzard writes in the blurb accompanying the news. Cole Cassidy rides into town on 26th October. Two months on, the official Overwatch Twitter feed has now revealed Cole Cassidy to be the new name for the sharp shooter formerly known as Jesse McCree, with the change set to occur in an update next Tuesday, 26th October. However, back in August, Blizzard announced it would be renaming the cowboy after the real-life Jesse McCree, who had been named in several accounts of the studio's toxic work culture, was confirmed to have departed the company amid the fallout from the lawsuit - although no reason for his exit was given.
McCree is just one of many characters across Blizzard's portfolio to have taken his name from a developer at the company. Henceforth, Jesse McCree will be known as Cole Cassidy. Overwatch's fan-favourite cowboy character Jesse McCree finally has a new name after Activision Blizzard committed to changing it in the wake of California's ongoing lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and a "frat boy" culture at the company.
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