Check your email: Overwatch launches its first stress test this weekend

Blizzard Entertainment announced tonight that the closed beta of its new Overwatch team shooter will become a little less closed — at least for one weekend.

The company will grant a much larger wave of players access for a stress test starting at 9 a.m. Pacific on Friday and ending 9 a.m. Monday. Notifications will go out when the servers are down for maintenance on Thursday. The stress test will go live in both the Americas and Europe.